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Dr. Hugh Blanton
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Phase-Locked Loops
• A phase-locked loop (PLL) uses a
feedback control circuit to allow a voltagecontrolled oscillator to precisely track the
phase of a stable reference oscillator, with
the important feature that the output
oscillator can be made to run at a multiple
of the reference oscillator frequency.
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• Phase-locked loops are used
• as FM demodulators,
• in carrier recovery circuits, and
• as frequency synthesizers for modulation
and demodulation.
• Phase-locked loops have very good frequency
accuracy and phase noise characteristics, but
suffer from the fact that settling times (between
changes in frequency) can be long.
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• The basic circuit of a
phase-locked loop
consists of
• a reference oscillator,
• a phase detector
• produces an output
voltage proportional to
the difference in phase
of the inputs,
• a loop amplifier and filter,
• a voltage-controlled
oscillator (VCO), and
• operating at the desired
output frequency
• a frequency divider.
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• In operation, the output of the VCO is divided by N to match
the frequency of the reference oscillator.
• The phase detector produces a voltage proportional to the
difference in phase of these two signals, and is used to
make small corrections in the frequency of the VCO in order
to align the phase of the VCO with that of the reference
source.
• The output of the phase-locked loop thus has a phase noise
characteristic similar to that of the reference source, but
operates at a higher frequency.
• If a programmable frequency divider is used, it is possible to
synthesize a large number of closely spaced frequencies
with a relatively simple circuit.
• This makes the phase-locked loop very useful for commercial
wireless applications, especially those involving mu
ltiple
channels.
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• Phase-locked loops can be
implemented in either digital or analog
form, but we will only discuss analog
PLLs because they are the only type
capable of operating at RF and
microwave frequencies.
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• There are several characteristics of phaselocked loops that are important in practice.
• The capture range is the range of input frequency
for which the loop can acquire locking.
• The lock range is the input frequency range over
which the loop will remain locked;
• this is typically larger than the capture range.
• The settling time is the time required for the loop
to lock on to a new frequency.
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Practical Synthesizer Circuits
• The AMPS cellular system requires a local
oscillator in the 800 MHz band to receive
one of several hundred voice channels
having 30 kHz spacing.
• Using a standard phase locked loop would
require a reference source operating at 30 kHz
and a VCO operating near 870 MHz, with a
programmable divider providing a division ratio of
more than 24,000.
• This would be impractical because of the large
number of addresses required as well as the high
frequency at which the divider would have to
operate.
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• Instead, a phase-locked loop supplemented
with a mixer and frequency multiplier is used
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• In this synthesizer the VCO operates at the
frequency fo, which ranges from 217.5 to 222.5 MHz.
• The VCO output is frequency multiplied by four to
achieve the desired synthesizer output in the range
of 870 MHz.
• Part of the VCO output is mixed with a fixed
reference crystal oscillator at f1 = 228.02250 MHz.
• The filtered difference frequency of 6 to 11 MHz is
low enough to be digitally divided with an
inexpensive programmable counter.
• The division ratio is selected with a 10-bit address to lie
between 737 < N < 1402, according to the desired channel.
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• The output of the divider is compared to
a stable 7.5 kHz oscillator, f2 , and the
phase error is used to control the VCO.
• When the loop is in lock, the output
frequency is fout = 4(f1  f2).
• Thus the output can be stepped in
increments of 4 f2 = 30 kHz.
• The stability of the output is set by the stability
of the reference sources f1 and f2.
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• If it is desired to produce an output
frequency of fout = 870.180 MHz. for
example, then we solve the equation
870.180 MHz = 4(f1  N  f2)
= 4[228.02250  N(0.0075)]
• This yields N = 1397. which is the
required setting of the programmable
divider.
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Phase Detectors
• A phase detector provides an output voltage
that is dependent on the phase difference
between two input signals.
• Two input signals of nominally the same
frequency (wo), but different phases (q1 and q2),
are applied to the input ports of a 90 hybrid
coupler.
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• The output voltages developed across
the mixer diodes can be written as
v1 (t )  cos(w ot  q 1 )  cos(w ot  q 2  90 )
 cos(w ot  q 1 )  sin( w ot  q 2 )
v2 (t )  cos(w ot  q 2 )  cos(w ot  q 1  90 )
 cos(w ot  q 2 )  sin( w ot  q 1 )
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• If we assume a square-law response for the
mixer diodes, and retain only the quadratic
terms, the diode currents can be written as:
i1 (t )  Kv12 (t )

 K cos 2 (w ot  q 1 )  2 cos(w ot  q 1 ) sin( w ot  q 2 )  sin 2 (w ot  q 2 )

i2 (t )   Kv22 (t )

  K cos 2 (w ot  q 2 )  2 cos(w ot  q 2 ) sin( w ot  q 1 )  sin 2 (w ot  q 1 )
• The negative sign of i2 accounts for the reversed
diode polarity.
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• After combining the diode currents and lowpass filtering, the output voltage can be
expressed as
vo (t )  i1 (t )  i2 (t )
 K d sin( q 1  q 2 )  K d (q 1  q 2 )
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• This result shows that the output voltage of
the phase detector is proportional to the sine
of the difference in phase of the two input
signals.
• If this difference is small, then the sine function
can he approximated by its argument, so that the
phase detector output is proportional to the phase
difference.
• This is referred to as the linearized phase detector
model.
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• The constant K, is the phase detector
gain factor, and accounts for the diode
square-law constants and current-tovoltage conversion.
• It has dimensions of volts/radian.
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Transfer Function for the Voltage-Controlled Oscillator
• We can assume that the VCO has an output
frequency wo that is offset from its freerunning frequency, wc,by an increment Dw:
w o  w c  Dw  w c  Kovc
• where the offset frequency is controlled by the
control voltage vc applied to the VCO.
• The constant Ko is the VCO gain factor, and has
dimensions of HZ/V.
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• We define the phase of the offset
frequency of the VCO as
q o (t )  Dwt  K ovct
• Writing frequency as the time
derivative of phase then gives
dq o (t )
 Dw  K o vc
dt
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• The integral yields the output phase in
terms of the control voltage:

t
q o (t )  K o vc ( )d
0
• The Laplace transform yields:
Ko
 o ( s) 
Vc ( s )
s
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• Assume a reference input voltage given by:
vi (t )  cos(w ot  q i )
• where qi is the phase of the input waveform.
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• The output voltage of VCO can be
written as
vo (t )  cos( Nw ot  q o )
• where qo is the phase of the output
waveform.
• Note that the output frequency is N times the
input (reference) frequency, due to the use of
the frequency divider in the loop feedback
path.
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• The phase detector output voltage can
be expressed in the Laplace transform
domain as:
vo (t )  K d (q 1  q 2 )  Vd ( s)  K d ( i ( s)   f ( s))
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• Since the divider divides the frequency by N,
and phase is the derivative of frequency, the
phase will also be divided by N.
• So the relation between the feedback phase qf
and the output phase, qo, is
1
 f ( s)   o (s)
N
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• The control voltage, Vc(s), applied to
the VCO is
Vc (s)  H (s)Vd (s)
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• The transfer function is:
Ko
Ko
Vc ( s)
Vd ( s) H ( s)
 o ( s)
s

 s
 i ( s) Vd ( s)   ( s) Vd ( s)   o ( s)
f
Kd
Kd
N
Ko
Vd ( s) H ( s)
 o ( s)
K o K d H ( s)
s


Ko
K o K d H ( s)
i ( s)
Vd ( s) H ( s) s 
Vd ( s)
N
 s
Kd
N
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N
K o K d H ( s)
 o (s)
K o K d H ( s)

 N
i ( s) s  K o K d H ( s) s  K o K d H ( s)
N
N
N
K o K d H ( s)
 o ( s)
NKH ( s)
N


i ( s) s  K o K d H ( s) s  KH ( s)
N
Ko Kd
K
N
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NKH ( s)
 o ( s) 
i ( s)
s  KH ( s)
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• The VCO control voltage is then found
as
sK d H ( s)
Vc ( s) 
i ( s)
s  KH ( s)
• The loop phase error is:


s
 ( s)  
i ( s)

 s  KH ( s) 
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• Consider a step change Dw in the
frequency, so that the input voltage is:
vi (t )  cos(w ot  q i )  cos(w ot  Dwt )
• The input phase function is
q i (t )  DwtU (t )
• where U(t) is the unit step function.
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• The Laplace transform is:
 D w  1  D w
i ( s)  
   2
 s  s  s
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First-Order Loop
• First consider the simplest case of a PLL with no
loop filter.
• Then H(s) = 1, and the VCO control voltage for a step
change in frequency, reduces to
sK d H ( s)
sK d H ( s) Dw
Dw K d
Vc ( s) 
i ( s) 

2
s  KH ( s)
s  KH ( s) s
ss  K 
Dw K d
Dw K d
Vc ( s) 

s s  K 
K
1 
1
 

s sK 
• due to partial fraction expansion.
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• Since there is a maximum of one pole, the system is
a first-order loop.


 DwK d  1
1  DwK d
L -1 Vc ( s)  vc (t )  L -1 

1  e  Kt U (t )

 
K
 K  s s  K 
• This result shows how the VCO control voltage varies in
response to a step change in the input frequency.
• At t = 0, vc(t) = 0.
• The output frequency is w0 = wc,the free-running VCO
frequency.
• In the limit as t→, the control voltage exponentially converges
to
vc (t ) 
Dw K d Dw N

K
Kd
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• Then the output voltage of the VCO is,
after locking, given by:
vo (t )  cos( Nw ot  q o )  cos N (w o  Dw )t
• which shows that the output frequency has
tracked the input step in frequency, and is
multiplied by N.
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• The time required for the output of the
PLL to respond to the step change in
input frequency is called the acquisition
time.
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