• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.163-166
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• 1999

In this paper, frequency synthesizer that can be used in IMT-2000 was designed and fabricated using dual loop PLL(Phase Locked Loop). For improving phase noise characteristic Voltage Controlled Oscillator was fabricated using coaxial resonator and eliminated frequency divider using SPD as phase detector and increased open loop gain. Fabricated frequency synthesizer had 1.82㎓ center frequency, 160MHz tuning range and -119.73㏈c/Hz low phase noise characteristic.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.25 no.9
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• pp.903-911
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• 2014

This paper proposes a high speed frequency synthesizer with dual phase-locked loop(PLL) structure to improve phase noise level and shape in a wideband receiver. To reduce phase noise and fractional spur, a output frequency of $1^{st}$ PLL used as reference frequency of $2^{nd}$ PLL is changed. The frequency synthesizer has been designed with 1 Hz frequency resolution using digital NCO in 6.5~8.5 GHz wide spectrum. The measured results of the fabricated frequency synthesizer show that the output power is about -3 dBm, the maximum lock-in time and phase noise are within 60 us and -95 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset, respectively.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.959-968
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• 2000

In this paper, a low phase noise frequency synthesizer used to TX local oscillator in BWLL RF tranceiver is presented. The phase-locked stable 25GHz-band frequencies in BWLL TX LO are obtained by using 2 GHz baseband frequency synthesizer, sixth-harmonic frequency multiplier and frequency doubler at 12 GHz band frequency input. The 25 GHz band frequency synthesizer presented in this paper has 3-output frequencies at 24.92 GHz, 25.10 GHz, 25.26 GHz. At 24.92 GHz frequency the synthesizer has 0.44 dBm output power and shows -87.93 dBc/Hz(a 10 KHz), -109.54 dBc/Hz (a100 KHz) phase noise characteristics .

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11b
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• pp.208-211
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• 2000

This paper describes the design of a CMOS frequency synthesizer using programmable frequency divider with novel architecture. A novel architecture of programmable divider can be producted all of integer-N and fabricated by 0.65$\mu\textrm{m}$ 2-poly, 2-metal CMOS technology. Frequency synthesizer is simulated by 0.25$\mu\textrm{m}$ 2-poly, 5-metal CMOS technology. This circuit has settling time of 1.5${\mu}\textrm{s}$ and power consumption of 70㎽. Operating frequency of the frequency synthesizer is 820MHz∼l㎓ with a 2.5V supply voltage.

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.313-317
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• 2003

In this paper, ultra-wideband frequency synthesizer which operates at S-band ($2{\sim}4GHz$) is designed. Designed frequency synthesizer shows the frequency range of $2.2{\sim}4.0GHz$ and output power of $-2{\sim}3dBm$. Phase noise characteristics are measured below -92.0dBc/hz at 100kHz offset frequency in entire sweep range and lock time is measured below 3.55ms. Spurious level is below -62.33dBc at comparison frequency of 1MHz.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.421-427
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• 2004

A low cost solution employing harmonic oscillation to the frequency synthesizer at 5.8 ㎓ is proposed. The proposed frequency synthesizer is composed of 2.9 ㎓ PLL chip, 2.9 ㎓ oscillator, and 5.8 ㎓ buffer amplifier The measured data shows a frequency Outing range of 290 ㎒, ranging from 5.65 to 5.94 ㎓ about 0.5 ㏈m of output power, and a phase noise of -107.67 ㏈c/㎐ at the 100 ㎑ offset frequency. All spurious signals including fundamental oscillation power(2.9 ㎓) are suppressed at least 15 ㏈c than the desired second harmonic signal.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.10
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• pp.926-934
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• 2016

In this paper, we designed a compact frequency synthesizer with multi-function for Ka-band seeker. DDS(Direct Digital Synthesizer) is applied to generate various waveform and to cover high-speed frequency sweep. In order to reduce size, waveform generator and frequency up-converter are integrated in one module. Proposed frequency synthesizer provides precise detection and tracking waveform for low and high speed targets. It is observed that fabricated synthesizer performs $0.45{\mu}sec$ frequency switching time and -93.69 dBc/Hz phase noise at offset 1 kHz. The size of the synthesizer is kept within 120 mm width, 120 mm length and 22 mm height.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.24 no.11
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• pp.1074-1080
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• 2013

The low phase noise and wideband frequency synthesizer has been designed by using YTO. Offset PLL structure is used for reducing a division ratio of feedback loop. The phase noise modeling is applied to optimize loop filter of PLL and YTO module. And DDS is used as reference signal of frequency synthesizer for fine resolution. The fabricated wideband frequency synthesizer has the output frequency of 3.2 GHz to 6.8 GHz, phase noise of -107 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset from the carrier and frequency resolution of 1 Hz. The measured phase noise is well agreed with the simulated one.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.85-91
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• 2012

In this paper, we implemented a Ka-band frequency synthesizer for millimeter wave seeker. we designed for high frequency resolution and frequency hopping response time in the digital synthesis method which uses DDS(Direct Digital Synthesizer). but frequency bandwidth was limited low frequency because DDS output frequency was limited 1/2 by system clock. thus, frequency synthesizer was converted to Ka-band using the frequency multiplier ${\times}4$ and local oscillator. proposed frequency synthesizer was bandwidth 500MHz, frequency switching time was $0.7{\mu}s$, spurious level was suppressed below -52dBc. phase noise was -99dBc/Hz at offset 100kHz and flatness was ${\pm}1dB$.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.534-542
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• 2017

This paper presents a fast locking technique for a fractional-N PLL frequency synthesizer. The technique directly measures $K_{VCO}$ on a chip, computes the VCO's target tuning voltage for a given target frequency, and directly sets the loop filter voltage to the target voltage before the PLL begins the normal closed-loop locking process. The closed-loop lock time is significantly minimized because the initial frequency of the VCO are put very close to the desired final target value. The proposed technique is realized and designed for a 4.3-5.3 GHz fractional-N synthesizer in 65 nm CMOS and successfully verified through extensive simulations. The lock time is less than $12.8{\mu}s$ over the entire tuning range. Simulation verifications demonstrate that the proposed method is very effective in reducing the synthesizer lock time.