Integrated Circuits and Systems group, IIT Madras

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EE6324: Phase-Locked Loops(May-Aug. 2020)

Instructor

Classroom

  • Online

Schedule

  • Tue./Thu.: 4:00-5:15 PM
  • Alternate Friday

Course page on moodle

Registered students can login and see the course page at https://courses.iitm.ac.in/. Resources, tutorials, exam schedules, discussion forum etc. can be accessed from the moodle page.

Teaching Assistants

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Evaluation

  • Assignments (10%)
  • Quiz-I (20%)
  • Quiz-II (20%)
  • Project (20%)
  • End Sem (30%)

Recorded lectures

The recorded lectures are listed below.

  1. Lecture#1(pdf): Introduction to PLLs
  2. Lecture#2(pdf): Crystal/LC oscillator as clock source, Basic operation of a PLL
  3. Lecture#3(pdf): Basic operation of a PLL with mixer, loop filter, and voltage controlled oscillator at block level
  4. Lecture#4(pdf): Basic operation of a PLL with mixer, loop filter, and voltage controlled oscillator at block level (contd.)
  5. Lecture#5(pdf): Small-signal model of a basic PLL, Type/order of a PLL
  6. Lecture#6(pdf): Frequency acquisition in Type-I PLL
  7. Lecture#7(pdf): Frequency acquisition in Type-I/II PLL
  8. Lecture#8(pdf): Frequency acquisition in Type-I/II PLL (contd.)
  9. Lecture#9(pdf): Frequency acquisition in Type-II PLL (contd.)
  10. Lecture#10(pdf): Different types of Phase Error Detector (PD)
  11. Lecture#11(pdf): Sample & hold based PD, XOR based PD
  12. Lecture#12(pdf): XOR based PD, S-R flip flop based PD, Range extension of PDs
  13. Lecture#13(pdf): 3-state PFD, D flip flop based PD
  14. Lecture#14(pdf): Frequency Detectors
  15. Lecture#15(pdf): Charge-pump PLL
  16. Lecture#16(pdf): Design methodology for a type-II order-3 charge-pump PLL (CP-PLL)
  17. Lecture#17(pdf): Sources of non-linearity in CP-PLL, Noise analysis in CP-PLLs
  18. Lecture#18(pdf): Noise analysis in CP-PLLs (contd.)
  19. Lecture#19(pdf): Noise analysis in CP-PLLs (contd.)
  20. Lecture#20(pdf): Oscillators, Barkhausen Criterion
  21. Lecture#21(pdf): Small swing differential oscillators
  22. Lecture#22(pdf): Large swing CMOS ring oscillators
  23. Lecture#23(pdf): Large swing CMOS ring oscillators (contd.)
  24. Lecture#24(pdf): Large swing CMOS ring oscillators (contd.)
  25. Lecture#25(pdf): Regulators for ring oscillators
  26. Lecture#26(pdf): Regulators for ring oscillators (contd.)
  27. Lecture#27(pdf): Phase noise in ring oscillators
  28. Lecture#28(pdf): Phase noise in ring oscillators (contd.), Circuit design of PLL building blocks (PFD)
  29. Lecture#29(pdf): Circuit design of PLL building blocks (PFD)
  30. Lecture#30(pdf): Circuit design of PLL building blocks (Charge Pump)
  31. Lecture#31(pdf): Circuit design of PLL building blocks (Charge Pump) contd.

Assignments

Assignments will be posted below. You are expected to solve them on your own. You should submit each one by 09:00AM of the due date mentioned. Copying will carry strict penalties.

Course contents

Topics include analog and digital integer-N phase-locked loops (PLLs). Building blocks include phase/frequency detectors, charge-pump, LC/ring-oscillators, multi-modulus frequency dividers, active/passive loop-filter, etc.

Objectives

To develop intuition behind frequency synthesizer design, learning mathematical basis behind operation, and realizing PLLs at architecture and transistor level.

References

  • F. Gardner, Phaselock Techniques, John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
  • W. Egan, Phase-Lock Basics, John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
  • R. Best, Phase-Locked Loops : Design, Simulation, and Applications, McGraw Hill, 2003.

Pre-requisites

Attendance

Attendance will be strictly enforced.