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Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Boise State University, member of the electrical engineering honor society Eta Kappa Nu, a licensed Professional Engineer

  • SPICE simulation of 1 Gbit/s clock recovery circuit using a NRZ (Non Return to Zero) data format. The Digital Phase Locked Loops used for clock recovery uses a Hogge phase detector and a VCDL (Voltage Controlled Delay Line), the output of which is fed back to get a positive feedback for sustaining the oscillation.

    • Free
    • Advanced
    • >100
    • LTspice
    • IV
    • No
    • input NRZ data is analternating string of ones and zeros input NRZ data is a string of seven zeroes followed by a single one voltage controlled delay line Hogge phase detector

  • SPICE simulation of the Digital Delay Loop (DDL) that uses the modified version of Voltage-Controlled Delay Line (VCDL). The VCDL gain must be as linear as possible, otherwise the DLL can exhibit second-order locking effects. To reduce the jitter and to linearize the loop’s response, a large capacitor (5pF) is used for the loop filter.

    • Free
    • Advanced
    • 51-100
    • LTspice
    • IV
    • No
    • output locked input and output of the DLL large capacitor for the loop filter

  • SPICE simulation of a modified VCDL. This version of Voltage-Controlled Delay Line regenerates full logic levels without introducing distortion into the signals. In this VCDL has been changed the last stage to two diff-amps with swapped input signals. The resulting signals have a width greater than the unmodified version. To get full logic levels, signals pass through inverters.

    • Free
    • Advanced
    • 51-100
    • LTspice
    • IV
    • No
    • above outp and outm below outmb and outpb after the inverters diffamp

  • SPICE simulation of an 8 stage voltage controlled delay line. The VCDL is used to provide delay in a delay locked loop (DLL). This schematic has eight delay cells. The differential inputs were generated using an inverter and a transmission gate. The outputs are evenly spaced and they only swing up to Vref = 500mV. This is done to minimize the effects of power supply and ground noise on the delay of the circuit.

    • Free
    • Advanced
    • 51-100
    • LTspice
    • IV
    • No
    • single delay cell Outputs of eight stage VCDL

  • Problems with PLL output jitter resulting from the VCO output frequency changing with a constant input voltage (VjnVC0 = constant) has led to the concept of a delay-locked loop (DLL). Assuming that a reference clock is available at exactly the correct frequency, the input data is delayed through a voltage-controlled delay line (VCDL) a time t0 until it is synchronized with the reference clock. Jitter is reduced by using an element, the VCDL, that does not generate a signal (like the VCO does). The transfer function Fclock/Fout is zero (the phase of the reference clock is taken as the reference for the other signals in the DLL, i.e., Fclock = 0), so that oscillator noise and the resulting jitter are not factors in DLL design.

    • Free
    • Intermediate
    • 11-20
    • LTspice
    • IV
    • No
    • above the generated reference currents, below node voltage regulated to Vref