• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.2380-2386
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• 2013

A PLL with an unipolar charge pump and a loop filter consisting of sample-hold capacitor and 2nd-order RC filter has been proposed. The goal of the proposed PLL is the suppression of reference spur which is caused by charge pump mismatch. It also improves phase noise characteristic. It has been designed with a 1.8V $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process and proved by HSPICE simulation.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.283-289
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• 2018

A PLL with an unipolar charge pump and a loop filter consisting of sample-hold capacitor and Fvco-sampled feedforward loop filter. The proposed PLL not only reduces the chip area by replacing the resistance to a switch and a small capacitor but also reduces the variation of ${\Delta}VLPF$ and ${\Delta}{\Delta}VLPF$ to 1/6 and 1/5 respectively. The variation of ${\Delta}VLPF$ is related to the phase noise of VCO output and that of ${\Delta}{\Delta}VLPF$ is proportional to reference spurs. It has been simulated and verified with a 1.8V $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process and shown a good phase noise characteristics. We plan to fabricate chip based on the simulations and check performance.