Integrated Frequency Synthesizers for Wireless Systems

Key problem-solving resource covering the entire design process of PLL frequency synthesizers for today's communications applications.

Andrea Leonardo Lacaita (Author), Salvatore Levantino (Author), Carlo Samori (Author)

9780521863155, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 June 2007

248 pages, 179 b/w illus.
25.5 x 18 x 1.8 cm, 0.64 kg

'… short and sweet at just under 250 pages, …Integrated Frequency Synthesizers for Wireless Systems is a good read for anyone outside of an expert in the field. This book is practical and provides a good theoretical foundation.' IEEE Microwave Magazine

The increasingly demanding performance requirements of communications systems, as well as problems posed by the continued scaling of silicon technology, present numerous challenges for the design of frequency synthesizers in modern transceivers. This book contains everything you need to know for the efficient design of frequency synthesizers for today's communications applications. If you need to optimize performance and minimize design time, you will find this book invaluable. Using an intuitive yet rigorous approach, the authors describe simple analytical methods for the design of phase locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizers using scaled silicon CMOS and bipolar technologies. The entire design process, from system-level specification to layout, is covered comprehensively. Practical design examples are included, and implementation issues are addressed. A key problem-solving resource for practitioners in IC design, the book will also be of interest to researchers and graduate students in electrical engineering.

Preface
1. Local oscillator requirements
2. Phase-Locked Loops
3. Fractional-N PLLs
4. Electronic oscillators
5. Noise in Oscillators
6.Reactive components in oscillators
7. Noise up-conversion in VCOs
8. Frequency division
9. Phase Comparison
Index.

Subject Areas: Communications engineering / telecommunications [TJK], Electronics & communications engineering [TJ], Electrical engineering [THR], Engineering: general [TBC]