Research Article
An Interpolated Flying-Adder-Based Frequency Synthesizer
Table 3
Performance comparison.
| | Reference [8]’s FA frequency synthesizer | Reference [19]’s two-path FA synthesizer | Reference [20]’s two-path FA synthesizer | Reference [23]’s two-path ADPLL | This work |
| Process | 0.6 μm, 3.3 V | 0.18 μm, 1.8 V | 0.18 μm, 3.3 V | 0.13 μm, 1.3 V | 0.18 μm, 1.8 V |
| Area (flying-adder) | 1350 μm × 1260 μm | 400 μm × 400 μm | 690 μm × 630 μm | 300 μm × 300 μm | 295 μm × 353 μm |
| Output frequency range | 57.27 MHz ~ 130 MHz | 39.38 MHz ~ 226 MHz | 62 KHz ~ 62.5 MHz | 10 MHz ~ 500 MHz | 33 MHz ~ 286 MHz |
| Accumulator width | 32 bits | 11 bits | 11 bits | | 29 bits |
| Power consumption (multiphase PLL) | ~40 mW | 3.6 mW | 32.4 μW | | 28.2 mW ( pads: ~14 mW, core:14.2 mW) |
| Power consumption (flying adder) | ~150 mW | | | | |
| Peak-to-peak jitter | 1132 ps at 120.05 MHz | 130 ps at 187.5 MHz | 410 ps | 288 ps at 191.4 MHz | 215.2 ps at 286 MHz |
| RMS jitter | 165 ps at 120.05 MHz | 50 ps at 187.5 MHz | | 39 ps at 191.4 MHz | 40.2 ps at 286 MHz |
| FoM(GHz/W) | 0.63 | 17.8 | | | 18.2 |
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