All‐digital power‐efficient integrating frequency difference‐to‐digital converter for GHz frequency‐locking
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Abstract
This study presents an all‐digital power‐efficient integrating frequency difference‐to‐digital converter (iFDDC) and explores its applications in gigahertz (GHz) frequency‐locking. The iFDDC utilises a bi‐directional gated delay line (BDGDL) to detect and accumulate the frequency difference between two GHz signals and digitises the result with ultra‐low power consumption. The built‐in integration of the iFDDC ensures that the in‐band quantisation noise of the BDGDL and digital controlled oscillator (DCO) is first‐order suppressed. The all‐digital realisation of the iFDDC makes it fully compatible with technology scaling. The effectiveness of the proposed iFDDC is verified using the simulation results of a 5 GHz frequency‐locked loop designed in a Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) 65 nm 1.2 V complementary metal‐oxide‐semiconductor (CMOS). The iFDDC consumes only 474 µW, offering the lowest power/frequency efficiency among reported FDDCs. The DCO locks to 5 GHz reference in <10 cycles.
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