Nonlinearity-induced spurious tones and noise in digitally-assisted frequency synthesizers

Authors

Michael Peter Kennedy, University College CorkFollow
Hongjia Mo, University College Cork
Dawei Mai, University College Cork

Abstract

Frequency synthesizers based on finite state machines are notorious for producing spurious tones (spurs). These spurs can be inherent in the architecture or may result from interactions between quantization noise and nonlinearities. This paper presents recent results, including descriptions of the problems and emerging solutions thereto.

Publication Title

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Recommended Citation

Kennedy, M., Mo, H., & Mai, D. (2017). Nonlinearity-induced spurious tones and noise in digitally-assisted frequency synthesizers. Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCAS.2017.8050553