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Title: analog PLL and digital PLL Post by sivacharan on Feb 19th, 2007, 4:49am what is the main difference between analog and digital pll?? is it the PFD that matters?? if the PFD compares two pulses then it is digital PLL regardless of the vco output nature. is this correct?? thanks. |
Title: Re: analog PLL and digital PLL Post by mg777 on Feb 19th, 2007, 10:32am At first glance I would dismiss it as the usual analog-digital gerrymandering. However, one meaningful digital PLL example I can think of is in frequency synthesis e.g; use of pulse swallowing against a stable clock reference. Whenever you wiggle a VCO, VCXO, TCXO... all that's analog. So, perhaps the right definition is whether the block is part of the boundary scan chain :-) M.G.Rajan www.eecalc.com |
Title: Re: analog PLL and digital PLL Post by adesign on Feb 20th, 2007, 3:31am The major difference comes in Analog and Digital PLL when loop-filter is considered. In Analog PLL, the loop filter is analog in nature and is comprised of passive/active devices. In Digital PLL, the loop filter is implemented using gates/flops. |
Title: Re: analog PLL and digital PLL Post by vivkr on Feb 20th, 2007, 7:09am Hi, As mentioned by adesign, the loop filter is digital and that is the big difference. An advantage of using the digital filter is the ability to design a stable loop with fast acquisition. Basically, you can use various algorithms for lock acquisition. A further advantage is that you can operate the PLL with much lower input frequencies without requiring a huge capacitor for the loop filter. Standard charge-pump PLLs have loop bandwidth about 5 -20 times lower than the input frequency. Regards Vivek |
Title: Re: analog PLL and digital PLL Post by fonseca.ha on Mar 6th, 2007, 5:04am I would say that the main difference comes from the VCO implementation. A digital PLL has a numerically controlled oscillator and an analog PLL an analog controlled one. As I see it the filter being digital or not comes from the above, Regards, Humberto |
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