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A Dual Charge Pump PLL-based Clock Generator with Power Down Schemes for Low Power Systems  

Ha, Jong-Chan (School of Electronic Engineering Soongsil University)
Hwang, Tae-Jin (School of Electronic Engineering Soongsil University)
Wee, Jae-Kyung (School of Electronic Engineering Soongsil University)
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This paper proposes a programmable PLL (phase locked loop) based clock generator supporting a wide-range-frequency input and output for high performance and low power SoC with multiple clock frequencies domains. The propose system reduces the locking time and obtains a wide range operation frequency by using a dual-charge pumps scheme. For low power operation of a chip, the locking processing circuits of the proposed PLL doesn't be working in the standby mode but the locking data are retained by the DAC. Also, a tracking ADC is designed for the fast relocking operation after stand-by mode exit. The programmable output frequency selection's circuit are designed for supporting a optimized DFS operation according to job tasks. The proposed PLL-based clock system has a relock time range of $0.85{\mu}sec{\sim}1.3{\mu}sec$($24\~26$cycle) with 2.3V power supply, which is fabricated on $0.35{\mu}m$ CMOS Process. At power-down mode, PLL power saves more than $95\%$ of locking mode. Also, the PLL using programmable divider has a wide locking range ($81MHz\~556MHz$) for various clock domains on a multiple IPs system.
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PLL(Phase Locked Loop); ADC(Analog to Digital Converter); Power-down mode; Re-locking;
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