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Message started by loose-electron on Dec 5th, 2008, 2:02pm

Title: PLL vs. DLL for Clock Generation?
Post by loose-electron on Dec 5th, 2008, 2:02pm

Having done a lot of PLL designs, I tend to stick with PLL's to do timing generation (frequency multiplication, sub dividing a clocking signal etc.) However - from everyone's experience, what are the pro/con of using a DLL vs. PLL in these applications?


Title: Re: PLL vs. DLL for Clock Generation?
Post by loose-electron on Dec 15th, 2008, 10:09am

Still interested in this topic. Anybody done both?

Title: Re: PLL vs. DLL for Clock Generation?
Post by rf-design on Dec 15th, 2008, 2:33pm

You need some thrown arguments.

Relative frequency range
Inductor allowed
Settling time
Special analog devices avaible
Tight subphases needed
Jitter or phase noise requierment
Supply rejection
Area
Design time
Risk versus $M mask cost

Title: Re: PLL vs. DLL for Clock Generation?
Post by loose-electron on Dec 17th, 2008, 2:58pm

For timing acquisition in a clock and data recovery system, not a mixer, so we are talking ring oscillators here, not LC-VCO's.

No inductors, and generic CMOS processes, underneath 5GHz.



rf-design wrote on Dec 15th, 2008, 2:33pm:
You need some thrown arguments.

Relative frequency range
Inductor allowed
Settling time
Special analog devices avaible
Tight subphases needed
Jitter or phase noise requierment
Supply rejection
Area
Design time
Risk versus $M mask cost


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