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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2009.20.11.1130

Design of Printed Circuit Board for Clock Noise Suppression in T-DMB RF Receiver  

Kim, Hyun (Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Kwangwoon University)
Kwon, Sun-Young (I&C Technology Co., Ltd.)
Shin, Hyun-Chol (Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Kwangwoon University)
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Abstract
This paper proposes a new clock routing design for suppressing clock harmonic effects in a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) for a terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting(DMB) system. Typical crystal reference frequencies that are widely used in DMB tuners are 16.384 MHz, 19.2 MHz, 24.576 MHz. When the high-order harmonic components of these reference frequencies fall near the RF channel frequencies, receiver sensitivity of the tuners is seriously degraded. In this work, we propose a new clock routing design in order to address the clock harmonic coupling issue. The proposed design incorporates two inductors for isolating the clock ground from the main ground, and adopts a new strip line-style routing instead of the conventional microstrip line style routing to minimize the overlap area with the main ground. As a result, the RF sensitivity of the T-DMB tuner is improved by 2 dB.
Keywords
DMB Receiver; PCB; Clock Noise; Clock Harmonic; Strip Line;
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