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1.                   BIT TYPE NAME      DEFLT DESCRIPTION   19 0  R Measured Phase Error 20 0 Measured duration of the PFD  Sign is available in Reg 12h  bit O    20  R Phase Error Overflow Flag 1 0 PFD pulse measurement overflow flag           Table 18  Reg 12h STATUS Read Only Register                               BIT TYPE NAME Ww DEFLT DESCRIPTION    0  R Phase Error Sign 1 0 Sign of PFD duration    1  R              ro  PRESE  S For 1 0 Lock Detect result from pulse duration based Lock Detect circuit   Measurement    2  R LD Output from Legacy Lock Detect 1 0 Lock Detect result from legacy one shot Lock Detect circuit              For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    H    gt       QD           H   O  LLI  H       Q       D                gt   e   gt    O  2          6  LLI       LL       erittite S HwcosaaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    RoHS v  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR     E     NOTES     H      0   D  or  O  H   O      H   IT  O         D  or           gt        gt   O  2         O      or  TE       For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com       
2.           48 Free Running VCO PN at 1 kHz offset   30 log10 1e3  PNoise normalized to 1 Hz offset   20 log10 7e9  Pnoise normalized to 1 Hz carrier     154 9 dBc Hz at 1 Hz VCO Flicker FOM    We can see from Figure 3 and Figure 4 respectively that the PLL FOM floor and FOM flicker parameters in fractional  Mode A are approximately     Fpo  dB    227 dBc Hz at 1 Hz  Fp1_dB    267 dBc Hz at 1 Hz       Each of the Figure of Merit equations result in straight lines on a log frequency plot  We can see in the example below  the resulting    PLL floor at 7 GHz              2010g10 fvco    10log10 fpd     227  196 9  80    110 1 dBc Hz  PLL Flicker at 1 kHz   Fi        20logtO fvco    10logtO fm     267   196 9 30    100 1 dBc Hz    VCO at 1 MHz   Fy  gp   20l0g10 fvco    20logtO fm     206 9  196 9 120    130 dBc Hz  VCO flicker at 1 KHz        gg 20log10 fvco  30log10 fm    154 9  196 9 90    48 dBc Hz    These four values help to visualize the main contributors to phase noise in the closed loop PLL  Each falls on a linear  line on the log frequency phase noise plot shown in Figure 25     Spurious Performance    Integer Operation    The VCO always operates at an integer multiple of the PD frequency in an integer PLL  In general  spurious signals  originating from an integer PLL can only occur at multiples of the PD frequency  These unwanted outputs are often  simply referred to as reference sidebands     Spurs unrelated to the reference frequency must originate from outside sources
3.       O  H   O  LLI  H   LLI  Q        QD                gt   e   gt   O  2                  oc  LL       erittite  nHwcosaaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    RoHS    DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    EARTH FRIENDLY    The PD has several features and controls including     Phase Swap    UP DN Enable    Forced Outputs    Phase swap    The input phase signals to the PD can be swapped internally by writing Reg OSh 4    1  When swapped  the PD gain  will be reversed  This feature enables the HMC984LP4E to be interfaced with reverse polarity VCOs  VCOs that have  negative gain curve   as well as systems that use an active loop filter where the operational amplifier introduces a  reverse phase polarity     Forced Outputs    The UP or DN outputs from the PD can be forced with SPI control to keep constantly active in order to achieve faster  lock  to force UP write Reg O4h 26    1  to force DN write Reg 04h 27    1   This capability is used in CSP  Cycle  Slip Prevention  feature when large phase errors are detected  In such a case the CP is continuously turned on the  appropriate direction  UP or DN  by the internal state machine to force faster phase convergence  and thus achieve  faster lock  Forced otput capability is also useful for testing purposes  It can be used to bring the VCO tune control  voltage to supply or ground  and observe the limits of the VCO     Cycle Slip Prevention    When the frequency of the synthesizer is changed and the current VCO frequency is far f
4.    Use SPI Chip Enable 1 0 Q  1   Ignore CEN        and use SPI chip en bit    1 R W   SPICE 1 1 Chip enable from SPI   1 allows chip control through SPI software  o    2 R W   R Divider Enable 1 1 Enable Reference Divider enabled  dp   1   PFD enabled        3 R W   PFD Enable 1 1  0   PFD disabled LL   4  R W   CSP Enable 1 1 Enable cycle slip prevention       5 R W   Charge Pump Enable 1 1 Enable Charge Pump   gt    6 R W   Lock Detect Enable 1 1 Main Lock Detect enable O   7  R W   Lock Detect Watch Dog Enable 1 1 Lock Detected Watch Dog  Declares unlock if no UP DN pulses are  received from PFD    8  R W   One Shot Lock Detect Enable d 1 Legacy Lock Detect enable  O  1   GPIO output enable  DO pin is output  Z   9 R W   GPO Enable 1 1 LLI  0   DO pin configured as input  5   10  R W   Reference Buffer Enable 1 1 Enable Reference Buffer       11  R W   Test Clocks Enable jl 1 Enable test clocks to digital  Xtal  Rdiv  Vdiv   LLI   12  R W   Bias Enable 1 1 Enables the bias currents to the analog blocks         13  R W   CSP Output Enable 1 1 Enables the output pad for LL   14  R W   CP OP AMP Enable 1 1 Enables the charge pump operational amplifier    17 15  R W   Unused bits 3 111b   18  R W   VCO Input Test Clock Enable 1 0 Enable for VCO Divider input test clock    19  R W   Unused bit 4 0                         Table 7  Reg 02h REFDIV Reference Divider Register  BIT TYPE NAME W   DEFLT DESCRIPTION          Reference Divider Division Ratio R  Minimum   1  Maximum     
5.   1  10 nsec  t4 SCK Low Duration 10 nsec  t5 SEN Low Duration 20 nsec  tg SEN High Duration 20 nsec  t7 SCK to SEN  3  8 nsec  tg SCK to SDO out IBI 8 nsec   1  The SPI is relatively insensitive to the duty cycle of SCK    2  SEN must rise after the 3219 falling edge of SCK but before the next rising SCK edge  If SCK is shared amongst several devices this timing  must be respected    3  Typical load to SDO is 10 pF  maximum 20 pF       For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    erittite    nmwcosaaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    RoHS v DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR                                                                                                        EARTH FRIENDLY  Register Map  Table 5  Reg 00h Chip ID  Soft Reset  Read Register H   BIT TYPE NAME      DEFLT DESCRIPTION  gt    6 0  R W   Read Address Register 7 0 Address of the register to be read in the next cycle  op   Soft Reset  Writing 1 generates soft reset  Resets all the digital      7  R W   Soft Reset 1 0 and registers to default states  Writing O resumes normal chip dp   operation   s   31 8  R W   Chid ID 24 97331h   Part Number  Description  Read regOOh returns chip ID      Table 6  Reg 01h Enable Register                              W   DEFLT DESCRIPTION H   0   Use CEN pin for chip enable       0 R W
6.   13 0  R W R Divider Ratio 14  1 16383d                             For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com       H    gt        D        O  H   O  LLI  H   LLI  Q        QD                gt   e   gt   O  2          6  LLI  oc  LL       E Hittite    MICROWAVE CORPORATION 02 0112  RoHS v        EARTH FRIENDLY    Table 8  Reg 03h PFD Settings Register    HMC984LP4E    DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR                                                 BIT TYPE NAME W   DEFLT DESCRIPTION   2 0  R W   CSP Reset Delay 3 100b The number of reference clock cycles after which the saturation  detection is reset    3  R W   CSP Auto Disable 1 1 When 1  PD saturation is disabled when Lock Detect becomes 1    4  R W   PD Phase Swap 1 0 Swap PD inputs when 1   1   Apply reference to both PFD inputs when pfd swap phase   5  R W   PD Short Mode Enable 1 0 RegO8h 4   0 or applies Divider output to both PFD inputs when  pfd swap phase RegO08h 4    1   1   Enable UP output from PD    6  R W    PD Up enable   1 0   Disable UP output from PD   1   Enable DN output from PD   Ui BU                   1 1 0   Disable DN output from PD    8  R W   PD Force Up 1 0 1   Forces UP output from the PD to stay continuously on   0   Normal UP operation    9  R W   PD Force Down 1 0 1   Forces DN output from the PD to stay contin
7.   2 5mA max 7 SpA cp_offset_up_en  127  20uA steps Steps       635uA max    Loop  Filter       DN  DN DN  Offset  cp_DNmag_x20uA cp_offsemag_x5uA   2 5mA max 7 7 SpA cp_offset_up_en  127  20uA steps Steps  635uA max       Figure 31  Charge Pump Block Diagram    PFD Jitter and Lock Detect Background    In normal phase locked operation the divided VCO signal arrives at the phase detector in phase with the divided  crystal signal  known as the reference signal  Despite the fact that the device is in lock  the phase of the VCO signal  and the reference signal vary in time due to the phase noise of the crystal and VCO oscillators  the loop bandwidth  used and the presence of fractional modulation or not  The total integrated noise on the VCO path normally dominates  the variations in the two arrival times at the phase detector if fractional modulation is turned off     To determine weather the VCO is in lock or not  it is necessary to distinguish between normal phase jitter when in lock  and phase jitter when not in lock     First  the meaning of jitter of the synthesizer that is observed at the phase detector in integer or fractional modes  needs to be understood     The standard deviation of the arrival time of the VCO signal  or the jitter  in integer mode may be estimated with a  simple approximation if it is assumed that the locked VCO has a constant phase noise    2  f0   at offsets less than  the loop 3 dB bandwidth and a 20 dB per decade roll off at greater offsets  The si
8.   360   28 8 degrees or  163 5      2000 pA  20 ns   1 6 ns  phase offset at the PD input     Charge Pump High Gain  HiK  Mode    Operating the CP of the HMC984LP4E in High Gain mode  Reg 04h 23    1  can improve PLL phase noise performance  by up to 3 dB  In High Gain mode the charge pump can deliver current of 3 5 mA   normal programmed CP current   High gain mode can be used without the normal charge pump current in which case the loop filter should be designed  with a current of 3 5 mA  In the case where high gain mode is used with the normal CP current  the loop filter should be  designed with a charge pump current of 3 5 mA   programmed CP current  The high gain mode current is depended  on the loop filter voltage  therefore the high gain mode should be used with active loop filters to keep a constant  voltage a the charge pump output        For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    H    gt       QD       O  H   O  LLI  H   LLI  Q      QD       LLI      gt   e   gt    O  2          6  LLI       LL       H    gt       N  as  O  H   O  LLI  H   LLI  Q        QD                gt   e   gt   O  2          6  LLI  oc  LL       erittite  HwcosaaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    ROHS v  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    EARTH FRIENDLY         UP  Offset  cp_UPmag_x20uA cp_offsemag_x5uA 
9.   5    r1        EARTH FRIENDLY    HMC984LP4E  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    Table 14  Reg 09h REFDIVSET  Reference Divider Settings  Register       BIT    TYPE    NAME    Ww    DEFLT    DESCRIPTION        2 0     R W    HMC983LP5E Chip Address    001    Chip address of the Prescaler Divider HMC983LP5E  When a  new REFDIV value is selected through the SPI  either of the two  chips will take the same command  This makes it unnecessary to  issue two separate WRITE cycles to change the REFDIV value  To  disable this feature  write the chip address of the HMC984LP4E  itself so that it will not listen to the command issued to the other    chip  See    Chip Address Pins  on page 25 for more information              R W       Force R Divider to Bypass    Table 15  Reg 0Ah Spare Register             1   Force REFDIV bypass when RDIV is not equal to 1                                BIT TYPE NAME Ww DEFLT DESCRIPTION    9 0  R W Not used 10 3FFh    10  R W XtalDisSat 1 0 Disables saturation protection on reference  Xtal  buffer    11  R W XtalHighFreq 1 0 Extends bandwidth of the reference buffer           Table 16  Reg 10h MEAS REF Read Only Register                               BIT                        DEFLT DESCRIPTION    19 0  R Measured Reference Duration 20 0 Measured duration of the reference period for Lock Detect  calibration     20  R Reference Measure Overflow Flag 1 0 REF measurement overflow flag           Table 17  Reg 11h MEAS PFD Read Only Register             
10.   AVG VCO PHASE OFFSET  lt  gt 0 2   AVG VCO PHASE OFFSET 22  FRACTIONAL MODE FRACTIONAL MODE    Figure 34  Lock Detect Window   Fractional Mode with Offset    Lock Detect with Phase Measurement    Lock Detect with Phase Measurement is based on phase error measurement at the PFD output  The phase error  measurement is done in terms of the reference period at the PFD input  The period of the reference is first measured  with a delay line and this count is available in read only register Reg 10h  The phase error at the output of the PFD  is then measured with the same delay line and this count is available in the read only register Reg 11h  When the  PLL is not locked  the measured phase error count will vary every time the Reg 11h is read and will become a stable  value once PLL is locked  The phase error count will then be proportional to the static phase error at the PFD output   For example  assuming that PLL is locked  if the reference duration count is 150 in Reg 10h and Reg 11h reads 35  then the approximate static phase error at the PFD output is 20  35 150    4 7 ns assuming a 20 ns reference period  or Fpfd of 50 MHz  Reg 06h  13 0  defines the low and high thresholds for current phase error count  Reg 06h 23 14   defines the number of reference cycles that the phase error has to be within the thresholds before the lock is declared   For example  if the low threshold is set to Reg 06h  6 0    20d and high threshold is set to Reg 06h  13 7    50d and  the LD OK Count i
11.   EARTH FRIENDLY    Table 2  Pin Descriptions Continued                                                                                                       Pin Number Function Description Interface Schematic  H     DVDD  19  SENb  Serial Port Enable Input Pin  Active Low  SEND     SD o4      20  SDI  Serial Port Data Input Pin  SCLK       21 SCLK Serial Data Clock Input Pin   LL     DYDD O                  4        4          i CHIP3       o 22 CHIP3 Chip Address Bit 3              gt  c PVDD  2 23 UPSAT Reference Saturation Output 4   O UPSAT  O DVDD         VCO Saturation Output Fla  24 DNSAT     t t O DNSAT  Also Multiplexed with Crystal Oscillator Clock                      For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com       erttite     HwcosaeaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    ROHS v  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    EARTH FRIENDLY    Table 19  Absolute Maximum Ratings                                  Max VDC to Paddle on Supply Pins 6   0 3 0 3 6 V Reflow Soldering   7  11  13  16 Peak Temperature 260   C  VCCPD  VPPCP  VDDCP  0 3 to 45 5 V Time      IN 405  VCOp  VCOn Common Mode Voltage   VCCPD   1 4 V eee ey  Class 1B  XREFP 50    Source   12 dBm   Digital Input Voltage Range 0 25 to DVDD   0 5 V    Stresses above those listed under Absolute Maximum Ratings may  Digital Load 1    
12.   External spurious sources can  modulate the VCO indirectly through power supplies  ground  or output ports  or bypass the loop filter due to poor  isolation of the filter  It can also simply add to the output of the PLL     The HMC984LP4E together with the HMC983LP5E have been designed and tested for ultra low spurious performance   Reference spurious levels can be typically below  100 dBc with a well designed board layout  A regulator with low  noise and high power supply rejection  such as the HMC860LP3E  is recommended to minimize external spurious  sources     Reference spurious levels of below  100 dBc require superb board isolation of power supplies  isolation of the VCO  from the digital switching of the synthesizer and isolation of the VCO load from the PLL  Typical board layout  regulator  design  demo boards and application information are available for very low spurious operation  Operation with lower  levels of isolation in the application circuit board  from those recommended by Hittite  can result in higher spurious  levels        For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    CATHIE    mHwcosaaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    RoHS v  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    EARTH FRIENDLY    Of course  if the application environment contains other interfering frequencies unrelate
13.   Minimum cause permanent damage to the device  This is    stress rating only   functional operation of the device at these or any other conditions                                                         Range      above those indicated in the operational section of this specification  Operating Temperature Range  65 to  125   C is not implied  Exposure to absolute maximum rating conditions for  Maximum Junction Temperature 125  C extended periods may affect device reliability    Storage Temperature  65 to  125   C   Thermal Resistance  Rth  ELECTROSTATIC SENSITIVE DEVICE   junction to ground paddle       OBSERVE HANDLING PRECAUTIONS                Outline Drawing                                                                                                                                                                      H    gt       QD        O  H   O  LLI  H   LLI  Q      QD       LLI      gt   e   gt    O  2          6           LL                                                                                                 TOP VIEW BOTTOM VIEW  161    38   PIN 24          016  0 40  REF  193  5490 s  638               1    008  0 20  MIN  24 19  U U        1 18 tow ae PN  r   34 mm       cox  4984       amp               1 oti  022   0 56  00 94    Zia    917 0 44  oN      EX E  tS Te  6 13 7 K ST             EXPOSED    12  N  Lor NUMBER 116 28    BROUND    104   2 65           5  SQUARE     002   0 05     000  938   ge      PACKAGE BODY MATERIAL  LOW STRESS INJEC
14.   PLL Performance at 7000 01 MHz  41     60        Bol jii   100   _   120          140         PHASE NOISE  dBc Hz      160   _        180 Let 0           10   10   10  10   10   107 10    OFFSET FREQUENCY  Hz     Figure 8  HMC984LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E  PLL Floor        vs CP Current  2      218       FLOOR FOM  dBc Hz     0 5 0 75 1 1 25 1 5 1 75 2 2 25 2 5  CHARGE PUMP CURRENT  mA     Figure 10  HMC984LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E  PLL Floor FOM vs CP Voltage 131     195   200   205   210   215     220         FLOOR FOM  dBc Hz      225         Imager Mode  Hi K Integer Mode       CHARGE PUMP VOLTAGE  V     Figure 12  HMC984LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E  PLL Performance at 4100 01 MHz  51     60                  100    7   120          140         PHASE NOISE  dBc Hz      160            10   10   10  10 10   107 10    OFFSET FREQUENCY  Hz      2  PLL operated in Mode B  CP Votage   2 5 V  Active Loop Filter with 220 kHz bandwidth used     3  Charge Pump Current   2 5 mA     4  Crystal frequency 100MHz  PD frequency 50MHz  CP current 2 5mA  CP offset current 255 yA  Loop bandwidth   87 kHz  PLL in Mode B    5  Reference frequency 100 MHz  PD frequency 50 MHz       current 2 5 mA  CP offset current 280 pA  Loop bandwidth   87 kHz  PLL in Mode B        For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    H    gt        D
15.   as  O  H   O  LLI  H       Q         D                gt   e   gt   O  2          6  LLI       LL       H    gt        D  as  O  H   O  LLI  H   LLI  Q       D                gt   e   gt   O  2                  oc  LL       E Hittite    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112  RoHS v     r1    EARTH FRIENDLY    Figure 13  HMC984LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E  PLL Performance at 2100 01 MHz  61     60   80 Er Lua            120         140        PHASE NOISE  dBc Hz      160           180   La     is  10   10   10  10   10   107 10    OFFSET FREQUENCY  Hz     Figure 15  HMC984LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E PLL  In Band Fractional Spurs vs  Offset Current  81     20  20       4400 MHz  4700 MHz  5000 MHz    INBAND SPUR AT 15 kHz OFFSET  dBc Hz    zH 98P  3SION 3S vHd     800  600  400  200 0 200 400 600 800  OFFSET CURRENT  mA     Figure 17  HMC984LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E  PLL Flicker FOM vs  RF Input Power   264 5   265       __ 265 5   266   266 5     267    FLICKER FOM  dBc Hz       Hi K Integer Mode     267 5     268 E             Integer Mode          268 5   30  25  20  15  10  5 0 5 10  RF INPUT POWER  dBm     HMC984LP4E    DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    Figure 14  HMC984LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E 16      80        100  _         I TT     8     Calculated PLL Integer Mode  g 120     sa     ul   7      Q Measured Mode B      140       9 porre       Simulated Mode      160          Simulated Integer Mode  i   Measured Integer Mode 8   180 TEN MENTIS LL       10   10   10  10   10   107 10    OFFSET 
16.  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    erittite  nHwcosaeaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    ROHS v  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    EARTH FRIENDLY    3  HMC984LP4E registers the data bits  D29 DO  in the next 29 rising edges of SCK  total of 30 data bits      4  Host places the 7 register address bits  A6 A0  on the next 7 falling edges of SCK  MSB to LSB  while the  HMC984LP4E reads the address bits on the corresponding rising edge of SCK     5  Host places the    chip address bits  CA2 CA0  110   on the next    falling edges of SCK  MSB to LSB   Note  the HMC984LP4E chip address is fixed as    4d    or  100b      6  SEN goes from low to high after the 40th rising edge of SCK  This completes the WRITE cycle   7  HMC984LP4E also exports data back on the SDO line  For details see the section on READ operation     Serial Port READ Operation    The SPI can read from the internal registers in the chip  The data is available on SDO pin  This pin itself is tri stated  when the device is not being addressed  However  when the device is active and has been addressed by the SPI  master  the HMC984LP4E controls the SDO pin and exports data on this pin during the next SPI cycle   HMC984LP4E changes the data to the host on the rising edge of SCK and the host reads the data from HMC984LP4E  on the falling edge   A typical READ cycle is shown in Figure 1  Read cyc
17.  the package ground leads and exposed paddle should be connected directly to the ground plane  similar to that shown unless mentioned otherwise  A sufficient number of via holes should be used to connect the top  and bottom ground planes  The evaluation circuit board shown is available from Hittite upon request     Table 20  Evaluation Order Information       Item Contents Part Number    HMC984LP4E and HMC983LP5E PLL Chipset Evaluation PCB       USB Interface Board  Evaluation Kit 6  USB A Male to USB B Female Cable EKITO1 HMC983LP5E    CD ROM  Contains User Manual  Evaluation PCB Schematic  Evaluation Software                          For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com       erittite    nwcosaaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    RoHS v  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    EARTH FRIENDLY    Evaluation PCB Block Diagram    Optional  DIV_OUT  IN       To USB Board                                           III  Iii  232      AMA    7       _     Typical Power Optional  Internal VCO Addam HMC984LP4E     Externa Ref  M RF Divider PFD npu     J28  i STAD Det       44             Configura  Optio  Vtune Out  lt 4    Configura  ANN       44              Control  J5  III I         AAA H it t it     For details on optional  Passive LPF Active LPF 600 00253 00 1 configurations See use  RF 2 RF 4 
18.  vs  Phase Difference in Amps radians  The UP and DOWN  gain currents are configured in Reg 04h 6 0         Reg 04h 13 7  respectively  Both UP and DOWN currents can be  programmed to provide up to 2 5 mA independently      127 steps  20 p A step   Resulting phase detector gain is the  total current from one side divided by 2rr  For example  if both UP and DOWN currents are set 2 mA each  the gain  would be 2 mA 2r   318 31 pA radian  Typically both of the gain currents are set to the same value     Charge Pump Phase Offset    Either of the UP or DOWN charge pumps may have a DC offset current added to it  Offset current allows the phase  detector to operate with a phase offset between the reference and the divided VCO inputs  The phase offset is  proportional to the ratio of the offset current to the main current times the period of the phase comparison clock     PD Phase offset                A       5   CP Current     fp       It is recommended to operate the HMC984LP4E with a phase offset when using fractional mode to reduce non linear  effects from any UP and DN pump mismatches that may exist  Phase noise in fractional mode is strongly affected by  charge pump offset     The magnitude of offset current is set in Reg 04h 20 14   and can be added to the UP  Reg 04h 21    1  or DOWN  Reg  04122    1  pumps     As an example  if the main pump gain was set at 2 mA  an offset of 160 pA  Reg 04h 20 14    20h  and 50 MHz PFD  rate would represent a phase offset of about  160 2000
19. 2  Measured with 100    external termination AC coupled on HMC984LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E evaluation board    13 Measured with HMC983LP5E HMC984LPAE chip set as fractional N synthesizer  Crystal input frequency   100 MHz  CP current   2 5 mA  CP  offset current   245 uA  Loop filter bandwidth   87 KHz  DSM Mode B selected  Cycle Slip Prevention  CSP  is disabled in HUC984LP4E by setting    Reg 01h  4    0  Setting Reg 01h  4    1 enables CSP in the two chip PLL        For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    H    gt       QD  as  O  H   O  LLI  H       Q         D                gt   e   gt   O  2          6  LLI       LL       erittite    nwcosaaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    ROHS v  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    EARTH FRIENDLY    Table 2  Pin Descriptions                                                                                                    Pin Number Function Description Interface Schematic  H  o VOD  1 1 REF EN Gate control output for TCXO clock export REF_EN  H  OE  H   gt  LD DO  LLI 2 DTSTO Lock Detect GPIO bit 0       VCCPD  C   gt  50  ee 3 VCOp Positive Input Pin for PFD JN esp  Q VCOp  L     gt  Z  ESD  2 N     VCCPD     so       4 VCOn Negative Input Pin for PFD RED  LL VCOn  EN BN   N ESD  PADDLE GND  5 VCCPD 5 V Analog Supply for Differential PFD  6 7 VDD
20. 4LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E  PLL Floor FOM vs Frequency 111     226     227      Mode B   228      i      i           Hi K Mode      229       i                               Hi K Mode A   230      e Ss      Integer Mode    FLICKER FOM  dBc Hz      231     232       Hi K Integer Mode    FREQUENCY GHz     Figure 6  HMC984LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E  PLL Floor        vs Reference Power  1      225   226   227   228     229      Hi K Mode B     230    FLOOR FOM  dBc Hz      231  Integer Mode     232       Hi K Integer Mode       15  10  5 0 5 10 15  REFERENCE POWER  dBm      1  Crystal frequency   100 MHz  PFD frequency   50 MHz  Active Loop Filter with 220 KHz Bandwidth  Measured at 4101 MHz in fractional mode    and 4100 MHz in integer mode        For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    EJ Hittite    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    HMC984LP4E    RoHS v  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    EARTH FRIENDLY    Figure 7  HMC984LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E  PLL Flicker FOM vs CP Current  2     FLICKER FOM  dBc Hz        0 5 0 75 1 1 25 1 5 1 75 2 2 25 2 5  CHARGE PUMP CURRENT  mA     Figure 9  HMC984LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E  PLL Flicker FOM vs CP Voltage 131     230   235   240   245   250     255       FLICKER FOM  dBc Hz      260           265       CHARGE PUMP VOLTAGE  V     Figure 11  HMC984LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E
21. 5   C  AVDD  RVDD  VDDPD1  VDDPD2  DVDD   3 V  VCCPD  VPPCP  VDDCP   5 V  GND   0 V                                                                                              Parameter Conditions Min  Typ  Max  Units   1 5 Integer Boundary Spurs Fpd 50 MHz  85 dBc  Logic Inputs   VIH Input High Voltage DVDD   0 4   VIL Input Low Voltage 0 4  Logic Outputs   VOH Output High Voltage DVDD  0 4   VOL Output Low Voltage 0 4   DC Load 1 5 mA  Serial Port   Serial Port Clock Frequency 30 MHz  Power Supplies   AVDD  RVDD Analog Supplies  AVDD should equal 28 3 33 v   DVDD   VCCPD 5 V Analog Supply for PD 4 5 5 5 5 V   VPPCP CP Analog Supply 4 5 5 5 5 V   VDDCP CP Digital Supply 4 5 5 5 5 V   DVDD  VDDPD1  VDDPD2 Digital Supplies 2 8 3 3 8 V  Current Consumption   IDD  Total Current Consumption 123 6 mA   I AVDD  3 V  AVDD Current 4 8 mA   I RVDD  3 V  Reference Path Current 22 mA   I VCCPD  5 V  PD Current 83 5 mA   I VDDPD 1  3 V  PD Digital Supply Current 2 7 mA   I VDDPD2  3 V  PD Digital Supply Current 2 7 mA   I VPPCP  5 V  CP Analog Supply Current 3 mA   I VDDCP  5 V  CP Digital Supply Current 2 9 mA   I DVDD  3 V  Total DVDD Current 2 mA  Bias Reference Voltage   Measured with 10 GO Volt Meter 1 58 1 72 1 86 V                 2  Bias voltage cannot drive external load  It must be measured with a 10 GO voltmeter such as Agilent 34410A  A typical 10 MO Digital Volt Meter    will read erroneously        For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 E
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23. E  pump Gain   OP Duron                      a Ms  CP HiK See    Charge Pump High Gain  HiK  3 5 6 mA  Mode  section  Offset Current 7 bit Programmable 5 uA Step 5 635       Phase noise  1   Integer Mode  230 dBc Hz  Fractional Modes A  amp  B  227 dBc Hz  Floor Figure of Merit  FOM  HiK Integer Mode  232 dBc Hz  HiK Fractional Mode A  230 dBc Hz  HiK Fractional Mode B  229 dBc Hz  Integer Mode  269 dBc Hz  Fractional Modes A  amp  B  267 dBc Hz  Flicker Figure of Merit  FOM  HiK Integer Mode  268 dBc Hz  HiK Fractional Mode A  266 dBc Hz  HiK Fractional Mode B  266 dBc Hz       Spurious           Int B d s  21GH Frequency offsets less than loop band  60 BB dBc  nteger Boundar urs   z        Ven width Fpp 50 MHz  Mode A       Int B d s  21GH Frequency offsets less than loop band  70   5 dBc  nteger Boundar urs   z             width Fpp 50 MHz  Mode          1 2 Integer Boundary Spurs Fpp 50 MHz  75  70 dBc                         1 3 Integer Boundary Spurs Fpp 50 MHz  85  80 dBc          1  Measured with HMC983LP5E HMC984LP4E as fractional N synthesizer chip set        For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com       E Hittite    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    RoHSv    EARTH FRIENDLY    HMC984LP4E    DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    Table 1  Electrical Specifications Continued             2
24. EARTH FRIENDLY  where   p Phase Noise Contribution of the PLL          2   2   fo Frequency of the VCO  Hz   fpa Frequency of the Phase Detector  Hz   fm Frequency offset from the carrier  Hz   Foo Figure of Merit  FOM  for the phase noise floor  Fpi Figure of Merit  FOM  for the flicker noise region    PLL 1 f Flicker Noise        VCO 1 12 Noise             ae            1 f4 Noise   o   am        0  Typical Closed Loop  9 PLL Noise Floor Phase Noise         lt  Closed Loop germ   a    Bandwidth  LOG OFFSET FREQUENCY  fm           Figure 26  Figure of Merit Noise Models for the PLL    If the free running phase noise of the VCO is known  it may also be represented by a figure of merit for both 1 f2   Fys   and the 1 3  Fy  regions     VCO PHASE 5  NOISE D   hfn    LT NT  Eq 2     in fa    The Figures of Merit are essentially normalized noise parameters for both the PLL and VCO that can allow quick  estimates of the performance levels of the PLL at the required VCO  offset and phase detector frequency  Normally   the PLL IC noise dominates inside the closed loop bandwidth of the synthesizer  and the VCO dominates outside the  loop bandwidth at offsets far from the carrier  Hence a quick estimate of the closed loop performance of the PLL can  be made by setting the loop bandwidth equal to the frequency where the PLL and free running phase noise are equal     The Figure of Merit is also useful in estimating the noise parameters to be entered into a closed loop design tool such  
25. FREQUENCY  Hz     Figure 16        9841        amp  HMC983LP5E  PLL Floor FOM vs  RF Input Power     226    FLOOR FOM  dBc Hz                            N      N                                  Integer                        P             30  25  20  15  10 5 0 5 10  RF INPUT POWER  dBm     Figure 18  HMC984LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E   PLL Two Way Auto Frequency Sweep 19   7000  6900    6800    o  E  o  o    FREQUENCY  MHz       o      o    o  a  o  o       0 5 10 15 20  TIME  ms      6  Crystal frequency 100 MHz  PFD frequency 50 MHz  CP current 2 5 mA  CP offset current 280     Loop bandwidth   87 kHz  PLL Mode   7  Measured at 7 GHz in Integer Mode and 7 001 GHz in Fractional mode B  PD Frequency   50 MHz  and loop filter BW   87 kHz  Simulated results    were obtained using Hittite PLL Design software      8  Active Loop filter bandwidth 150 kHz  measured at 10 kHz offset  PFD Frequency 50 MHz  Offset polarity should be positive for inverting    configurations and negative otherwise    9  50 MHz PFD       For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    E Hittite    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112  RoHS v     E    Figure 19  HVC984LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E PLL  One Way Triggered Frequency Sweep 107    7000       6900    6800    6700    6600    FREQUENCY  MHz     6500    6400    0 200 400 600 800 1000  TI
26. Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    CAHMEIC    HwcosaaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION v02 0112    RoHS v DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    r1    EARTH FRIENDLY    The HMC984LP4E has two outputs  UPSAT and DNSAT  which indicate to the HMC983LP5E whether the Reference  or the VCO is leading in phase  These outputs are CMOS signal with DVDD levels  When HMC983LP5E detects  saturation  large phase error   it configures itself  and the HMC984LP4E in order to eliminate or reduce cycle clipping   There are additional controls for adjusting the CSP operation in HMC983LP5E  The controls for CSP feature are     1  Register OEh bits  18 15  control the step size  where step is a VCO cycle   2  Register OEh bit  29  increases the step size by a factor of 16 for operations with low reference frequencies     The actual operation of CSP will depend on the Reference and VCO frequencies and will need to be tailored for each  application     Charge Pump    The charge pump in HMC984LP4E converts the phase detector digital outputs to appropriate current level that is  proportional to phase difference between the reference and the VCO  A simplified block diagram of the charge pump  is shown in Figure 25  The HMC984LP4E CP has programmable current gain and offset current     Charge Pump Gain Current    CP gain current defines the gain of Phase Detector
27. ME  ms     Figure 21  HMC984LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E PLL  Floor        Vs Square Wave Ref Input Level  111     216   218   220   222     224    FLOOR FOM  dBc Hz      226       REFERENCE POWER  dBm     Figure 23  HMC984LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E  PLL Cycle Slip Prevention at 100 MHz PD         7050    CSP Enabled    RegOEh 18 15    1h  gt     E  o  e  o    CSP Enabled    6950      RegoEh 18 15    8h    6900  6850    6800           PLL OUTPUT FREQUENCY  MHz     6750         6700       0 50 100 150 200 250 300  TIME  us     HMC984LP4E    DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    Figure 20  HMC984LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E PLL  Floor        Vs  Sine Wave Ref Input Level  111     210       FLOOR FOM  dBc Hz     REFERENCE POWER  dBm     Figure 22  HMC984LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E  PLL Reference Input Return Loss  12     RETURN LOSS  dB        0 100 200 300 400 500 600  FREQUENCY  MHz     Figure 24  HMC984LP4E  amp  HMC983LP5E  PLL Cycle Slip Prevention at 50 MHz PD  3    7050    CSP Enabled     RegOEh 18 15    8h       7000           CSP Enabled    6950       RegOEh 18 15    1h    6900  6850    6800         PLL OUTPUT FREQUENCY  GHz     6750          6700  0 50 100 150 200 250 300  TIME  us      10  Using 10 Hz external trigger  PFD frequency   10 MHz  Measured with HMC983LP5E HMC984LP4E fractional N synthesizer chip set    11  Measured with a 100    external resistor termination  resulting in 50    effective input impedance of Reference  Full FOM performance up to    maximum 3 3 Vpp input voltage      1
28. Out guide  TT HMC507       12 14  AA On board VCO  F   ister Supply POWER  Optional         amp  Regulators        J27 Jm                                           H    gt       QD  oc  O  H   O  LLI  H       Q         D                gt   e   gt   O  2          6      oc  LL       For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com       H    gt        D        O  H   O  LLI  H   LLI  Q        QD                gt   e   gt   O  2          6  LLI  oc  LL       erttite    HwcosaaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    RoHS v  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    EARTH FRIENDLY    Typical Performance Characteristics    Theory of Operation    Primary target application of the HMC984LP4E is to be used with the HMC983LP5E as shown in Figure 25  Together  these two components form a high performance  low noise  ultra low spurious emissions fractional N frequency  synthesizer  The two components are separated in order to maximize isolation between them  and minimize common  distortion and modulation by products that exist in all PLLs  Careful IC design and increased isolation between the  two components result in high performance   high spectral efficiency PLL  with extremely low spurious emissions        HMC984LP4E  Loop Filter 9            reference    Ph      source ase N fvco N fpd  Detector        N  amp  De
29. PD1  VDDPD2   3V Phase Detector Supply 1  3 V Phase Detector Supply 2  8 VDDCP 5 V Charge Pump Supply          For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com       EJ Hittite    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    RoHS v    EARTH FRIENDLY    HMC984LP4E    DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    Table 2  Pin Descriptions Continued                                                                                                                         Pin Number Function Description Interface Schematic  VPPCP    UP        M ESD o     ihe     9      Charge Pump Output Pin ERA       dp      A        ESD  10 VPPCP 5 V Analog Power Supply Pin Charge Pump    11 AVDD 3 V Analog Supply LLI  12 BIAS External Decoupling for Analog Bias Circuits Q  13 RVDD 3 V Supply Pin for Reference Circuits       RVDD  14 XREFP Reference TCXO Input Pin    15 NC No Connect Pin Z  16 DVDD 3 V Digital Supply Pin     DVDD 2  17 CEN Chip Enable Pin CEN    LL  o PVDD  18 SDO Serial Data Output Pin ane             For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824    978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com                             MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    RoHS v  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR  
30. TH JITTER       PHASE JITTER               PHASE JITTER    AVG PHASE orrset 0        AVG PHASE OFFSET 0    3    INTEGER MODE INTEGER MODE    Figure 33  Normal Lock Detect Window   Integer Mode  Zero Offset  Lock Detect with Phase Offset    When operating in fractional mode the linearity of the phase detector and charge pump is more critical than in integer  mode  The phase detector linearity deteriorates when operating with zero phase offset  Hence in fractional mode it is  necessary to offset the phase of the reference and the VCO at the phase detector  In such a case  for example with an  offset delay  the mean phase of the VCO will always occur after the reference  as shown in Figure 10  The lock detect  circuit window can be made more selective with a fixed offset delay by setting Reg 05h  0  1 and Reg O5h 1  1  The  offset can be assigned in advance of the reference by setting Reg 05h 1 20 and Reg 05h  0  1        For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    Crittite HwcosaeaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    RoHS DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR     E     EARTH FRIENDLY    T   10nsec AVG PHASE OFFSET          WINDOW  LOCK    DETECT  WINDOW    SOMHz PFD    VCO AT PFD WITH FRAC JITTER    REF PHASE ARRIVAL _    REF PHASE ARRIVAL                ll             ARRIVAL DISTRIBUTION AT       
31. TION MOLDED PLASTIC  n o SEATING SILICA AND SILICON IMPREGNATED   E   NONE 2  LEAD AND GROUND PADDLE MATERIAL  COPPER ALLOY   3  LEAD AND GROUND PADDLE PLATING  100  MATTE TIN   C   003 0 08  C 4  DIMENSIONS ARE IN INCHES  MILLIMETERS     C  5  LEAD SPACING TOLERANCE IS NON CUMULATIVE   6  PAD BURR LENGTH SHALL BE 0 15mm MAX  PAD BURR HEIGHT SHALL BE  0 25m MAX   7  PACKAGE WARP SHALL NOT EXCEED 0 05mm  8  ALL GROUND LEADS AND GROUND PADDLE MUST BE SOLDERED TO PCB  RF GROUND   9  REFER TO HITTITE APPLICATION NOTE FOR SUGGESTED PCB LAND  PATTERN   Package Information  Part Number Package Body Material Lead Finish MSL Rating  21 Package Marking      HMC984LP4E RoHS compliant Low Stress Injection Molded Plastic 100  matte Sn MSL1 ma                       1  4 Digit lot number XXXX   2  Max peak reflow temperature of 260   C       For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com       erittite     nHwcosaaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION v02 0112    ROHS v  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    EARTH FRIENDLY    Evaluation PCB                 BS 200000  20000 00000       H      0   D  or  e  H   O      H   IT  O         D  or  T       gt        gt   O  z          O            TE       The circuit board used in the application should use RF circuit design techniques  Signal lines should have 50 Ohms  impedance while
32. as Hittite PLL Design  which can give a more accurate estimate of the closed loop phase noise and PLL loop filter  component values     Given an optimum loop design  the approximate closed loop performance is simply given by the minimum of the PLL  and VCO noise contributions     o    min  45 7    Eq 3        For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    H    gt       QD       O  H   O  LLI  H   LLI  Q      QD       LLI      gt   e   gt    O  2                       LL       H    gt        D        O  H   O  LLI  H   LLI  Q        QD                gt   e   gt   O  2          6  LLI  oc  LL       erittite    nwcosaaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    RoHS v  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    EARTH FRIENDLY    An example of the use of the FOM values to make a quick estimate of PLL performance  Estimate the phase noise of  an 7 GHz closed loop PLL with a 100 MHz reference operating in Fractional Mode B with the VCO operating at 7 GHz   Assume an HMC505LP4E VCO has free running phase noise in the 1 f  region at 1 MHz offset of  130 dBc Hz and  phase noise in the 1 f3 region at 1 kHz offset of  48 dBc Hz     Fu         130 Free Running VCO PN at 1 MHz offset   20 log10 1e6  PNoise normalized to 1 Hz offset   20 log10 7e9  PNoise normalized to 1 Hz carrier     206 9 dBc Hz at 1 Hz VCO FOM        
33. ctor of 20Log10 N  after division to the reference  the jitter is a constant   The rms jitter from the phase noise is then given by Toi   Tref    2m  In this example if the reference was 50 MHz       20 nsec  and hence       178 femto sec   A normal 3 sigma peak to peak variation in the arrival time therefore would be   34277    0 756 ps    If the synthesizer was in fractional mode  the fractional modulation of the VCO divider will dominate the jitter  The exact  standard deviation of the divided VCO signal will vary based upon the modulator chosen  however a typical modulator  will vary by about  3 VCO periods   4 VCO periods  worst case     If  for example  a nominal VCO at 5 GHz is divided by 100 to equal the reference at 50 MHz  then the worst case  division ratios will vary by 100x4  Hence the peak variation in the arrival times caused by    modulation of the  fractional synthesizer at the reference will be    Tj xpk                    max    N min    2  Eq 8     In this example         200 ps  104 96  2    800 psec  If it is assumed that the distribution of the delta sigma  modulation is approximately Gaussian  T  pk could be approximated as a 3 sigma jitter  and hence the rms jitter of the     gt  modulator could be estimated as   1 8 of     or   267 psec in this example     Hence the total rms jitter T  expected from the delta sigma modulation plus the phase noise of the VCO would be    given by the rms sum   where  Tj   T  jon       y  Eq 9     It is apparent that th
34. d to the PD frequency  and if  the application isolation from the board layout and regulation are insufficient  then the unwanted interfering frequencies  will mix with the desired PLL output and cause additional spurs  The level of these spurs is dependant upon isolation  and supply regulation or rejection  PSRR      Fractional Operation    Unlike an integer PLL  spurious signals in a fractional PLL can occur due to the fact that the VCO operates at  frequencies unrelated to the PD frequency  Hence intermodulation of the VCO and the PD harmonics can cause  spurious sidebands  Spurious emissions are largest when the VCO operates very close to an integer multiple of the  PD  When the VCO operates exactly at a harmonic of the PD then  no in close mixing products are present     Interference is always present at multiples of the PD frequency  fpa  and the VCO frequency             If the fractional mode  of operation is used  the difference  A  between the VCO frequency and the nearest harmonic of the reference  will  create what are referred to as integer boundary spurs  Depending upon the mode of operation of the PLL  higher  order  lower power spurs may also occur at multiples of integer fractions  sub harmonics  of the PD frequency  That is   fractional VCO frequencies which are near n fpa   fpg d m  where n  d and m are all integers and d lt m  mathematicians  refer to d m as a rational number   We will refer to f yd m as an integer fraction  The denominator  m  is the orde
35. e HMC984LPAE is housed in a compact 24 pin 4x4  mm LP4 package        For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    erittite     HwcosaaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    RoHS v DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR        EARTH FRIENDLY    Table 1  Electrical Specifications          25   C  AVDD  RVDD  VDDPD1  VDDPD2  DVDD   3 V  VCCPD  VPPCP  VDDCP   5 V  GND   0V    Parameter Conditions Min  Typ  Max  Units          Ref  Input Characteristics                         Frequency Range DC 50 350 MHz  Ref  Input Power Range 50 Q Source 6 12 dBm  Ref  Input Impedance 100113           Ref  Divider Range  14 bit  1 16383   Phase Detector  PD   PD Input Internal Pull Up Resistance VCOp  VCOn  Each Side 50 Q  PD Input Current VCOp  VCOn  2 5 mA Steps 12 5 15 17 5 mA  PD Input Voltage Swing Single Ended Peak to Peak 625 750 875 mV       Fractional Mode                                              H    gt        D        O  H   O  LLI  H   LLI  Q        QD                gt   e   gt   O  2          6  LLI  oc  LL                   12 dBm Sine Wave Input  Mode A  amp  B DC 50 125 MHz  Phase Detector Frequency  2 dBm Square Wave Input  Mode A  amp  B DC 50 90 MHz  Integer Mode  12 dBm Sine Wave Input DC 50 175 MHz  Phase Detector Frequency  2 dBm Square Wave Input DC 50 150 MHz  Charge Pump  CP   erate aCe S
36. e jitter from  EQ  9  at the phase detector is dominated by the fractional modulation  In general    t x0 8 nsec of normal variation in the phase detector arrival times has to be expected when in fractional mode  In  addition  lower VCO frequencies with high reference frequencies will have much larger variations  For example  a 1  GHz VCO operating at near the minimum nominal divider ratio of 36  would  according to  EQ 8   exhibit about  4  nsec of peak variation at the phase detector  under normal operation  The lock detect circuit must not confuse this  modulation as being out of lock        For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    H    gt       QD       O  H   O  LLI  H   LLI  Q      QD       LLI      gt   e   gt    O  2                       LL       H    gt        D  as  O  H   O  LLI  H   LLI  Q       D       LLI     2  e   gt   O  2          6  LLI  oc  LL       CATHIE  nwcosaaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    RoHS v DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    EARTH FRIENDLY    HMC984LP4E Lock Detect Circuits    HMC984LP4E includes two lock detect circuits     Legacy Lock Detect Function    Phase Measurement Based Lock Detect Function    Reg 01h 6 8  enables the lock detect functions of the HMC984LP4E  The LD output is available either from the GPO  pin DO or through SPI register Reg 12
37. generate phase comparison frequency that  meets the limits of the phase detector  The minimum reference frequency can be as low as 100 kHz provided that  sharp rise and fall times  less than 500 ps  are guaranteed  Internally  the reference signal is used by other circuitry   besides the phase detector  For best performance  it is recommended to use a higher reference frequency that is  divided by the internal R Divider to generate the required phase comparison frequency     Table 3  Reference Sensitivity Table                                  Square Input Sinusoidal Input  Frequency Slew    0 5V ns Recommended Swing  Vpp  Recommended Power Range  dBm    MHz  Recommended Min Max Recommended Min Max   lt 10 YES 0 6 2 5 x x x  10 YES 0 6 2 5 x x x  25 YES 0 6 2 5 ok 8 15  50 YES 0 6 2 5 YES 6 15  100 YES 0 6 5  150 ok 0 9 4  200 ok 1 2 3  200 to 350 x       Yes  5 10                      Note  For greater than 200 MHz operation  use buffer in High Frequency Mode  Reg 08h 11    1             For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    erittite  HwcosaaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    RoHS v  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    EARTH FRIENDLY    Differential Phase Frequency Detector    As shown in Figure 25  the HMC984LP4E features an ultra low noise digital differential Phase Detector  PD  w
38. gt  3 ns   11   Force when phase error  gt  5 ns                                For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    H    gt       QD       O  H   O  LLI  H   LLI  Q      QD       LLI      gt   e   gt    O  2                       LL       erittite      HwcosaaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION v02 0112    RoHS v  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR        EARTH FRIENDLY    Table 11  Reg 06h LKDOS  Lock Detect  Register             BIT TYPE NAME      DEFLT DESCRIPTION   6 0  R W LD High Threshold Duration 7 7Fh High threshold for measuring PFD pulse width    13 7  R W LD Low Threshold Duration 7 0x00 Low threshold for measuring PFD pulse width        Number of consecutive counts within the time window to declare     23 14  R W   LD OK Count Threshold 10 200h lock     Theory of Operation  on page 14                            Table 12  Reg 07h LKDOS  Legacy Lock Detect  Register                      BIT TYPE NAME      DEFLT DESCRIPTION  0x1000   Number of consecutive counts within the time window to declare  15 0    R W   LKDOS OK Count 16                       40969 lock  Legacy Lock Detect Function    on page 24   18 16  R W LKD One Shot Pulse Width 3 100b  Set ring oscillator speed or frequency    20 19  R W LKDOS Ring Oscillator Speed 2 006 00   fastest   11   slowest    21  R W   LKDOS Ring Osci
39. h     Legacy Lock Detect Function    The Lock Detect circuit in the HMC984LP4E places a one shot window around the reference  The one shot window  may be generated by either an analog one shot circuit or a digital one shot based upon an internal ring oscillator timer   Clearing LKDOS One Shot Select  Reg 07h 22  0  will result in a nominal  10 nsec    analog    window of fixed length   as shown in Figure 9  Setting this bit to 1 will result in a variable length    digital    widow  The digital one shot window  is controlled by LKDOS Ring Oscillator Speed  Reg 07h 20 19    The resulting lock detect window period is then  generated by the number of ring oscillator periods defined in LKDOS One Shot Pulse Width  Reg 07h 18 16    The lock  detect ring oscillator may be observed on the GPO port by setting Reg 07h 21   1 and configuring the Reg 08h 7 0     C1h in  GPO   Lock detect does not function when this test mode is enabled     LKDOS OK Count  Reg 07h 15 0   defines the number of consecutive counts of the VCO that must land inside the lock  detect window to declare lock  If for example LKDOS OK Count   1000   then the VCO arrival would have to occur  inside the selected lock window 1000 times in a row to be declared locked  When locked the Lock Detect flag  Reg  12h 2  1   is set  Reg 12h is a read only register  A single occurrence outside of the window will result in clearing the  Lock Detect flag     T   10nsec  LOCK WINDOW LOCK WINDOW  DETECT  WINDOW  50MHz PFD      VCO WI
40. hase Detector Input   14 bit Reference Frequency Divider   Lock Indicator Output   Phase Measurement Capability   GPIO  General Purpose Input Output  Test Pin  Cycle Slip Prevention Support with HMC984LP4E  24 pin  4 x 4mm  LP4E Package    General Description    HMC984LP4E is a high performance  ultra low phase  noise  SiGe BiCMOS Phase Frequency Detector  and Charge Pump targeted to be used together with  the HMC983LP5E  Fractional Frequency Divider  to  together form a high performance  low noise  ultra low  spurious emission fractional N frequency synthesizer     Although best performance and maximum features are  achieved when used together with the HMC983LP5E   the HMC984LP4E can also be used as a stand alone   low phase noise phase frequency detector     The HMC984LP4E can receive differential VCO input   and a reference frequency as high as 150 MHz  It  features a 14 bit reference frequency R Divider  and  automatic and or configurable Lock Detect Indicator   as well as integrated CSP  Cycle Slip Prevention   capability  when used together with the HMC983LP5E   that significantly improves frequency lock time     Integrated Charge Pump phase swap option enables  seamless interfaced to VCOs and active loop filters  with inverted polarity     Additional features include adjustable Charge Pump  gain and offset current that improve linearity and  performance  and a Soft Reset feature that resets all  register to default values without having to perform a  power cycle     Th
41. ith  two differential inputs  One input comes from the reference path divider and the other from VCO path divider  The  reference input is internal to       9841        whereas the divided VCO input is external  The output from the PD is fed  to the charge pump in HMC984LP4E which converts the PD digital output to a current with programmable gain  The  output of the CP is directly proportional to the phase difference between the divided reference and the VCO path  signals     VCCPD  5V         HMC984LP4E    Figure 28  HMC984LP4E Input Interface    The input of PD is a differential current input  The input interface configurations are shown in Figure 25 and Figure  25  The HMC984LP4E is designed to work with its companion divider part  the HMC983LP5E  that provides an open  collector output  The inputs are internally pulled up to VCCPD with on chip 50 O resistors  Thus  any open collector  buffer can drive the PD inputs  A minimum of 750 mVpp single ended level is needed to drive the PD inputs        VCCPD  5V        HMC983LPSE HMC984LP4E    Figure 29  HMC984LP4E Input Interface with Companion Part HMC983LP5E       For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    H    gt        D  as  O  H   O  LLI  H       Q         D                gt   e   gt   O  2          6  LLI       LL       H    gt        D  
42. le is 40 clock cycles long  To specifically read a register  the  address of that register must be written to dedicated Reg OOh  This requires two full cycles  one to write the  required address  and a 2nd to retrieve the data  A read cycle can then be initiated as follows    1  The host asserts SEN  active low Serial Port Enable  followed by a rising edge SCK    2  HMC984LP4E reads SDI  the MSB  on the 1  rising edge of SCK after SEN     3  HMC984LP4E registers the data bits in the next 29 rising edges of SCK  total of 30 data bits   The LSBs of  the data bits represent the address of the register that is intended to be read     4  Host places the 7 register address bits on the next 7 falling edges of SCK       to LSB  while the HMC984LP4E  reads the address bits on the corresponding rising edge of SCK  For a read operation this is  0000000      5  Host places the 3 chip address bits  100  on the next 3 falling edges of SCK  MSB to LSB   Note the  HMC984LP4E chip address is fixed as    4d    or  100b      6  SEN goes from low to high after the 40th rising edge of SCK  This completes the first portion of the READ  cycle     7  The host asserts SEN  active low Serial Port Enable  followed by a rising edge SCK     8  HMC984LP4E places the 30 data bits  7 address bits  and 3 chip id bits  on the SDO  on each rising edge of  the SCK  commencing with the first rising edge beginning with MSB     9  The host de asserts SEN  i e  sets SEN high  after reading the 40 bits from the SDO 
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44. llator Mode 1 0 T  Foros Nng                          0   Normal operation    22    R W   LKDOS One Shot Select 1 1 1   Select digital one shot  0   Select analog one shot                          Table 13  Reg 08h GPIO Register    BIT TYPE NAME      DEFLT DESCRIPTION       Select signal to be probed on the GPIO output pin   0000   gpo_test    0001   Locked    0010   PFD UP output to LKD    0011   PFD dn output to LKD    0100   R Divider output to digital    0101   R Divider output    0110   PFD saturation reset     3 0  R W   GPO Output Signal Select 4 0000b   0111   PFD saturation DN  VCO  output   1000   PFD saturation UP  REF  output   1001   Ring oscillator test output    1010   One shot pulse output    1011   One shot trigger output    1100   Pull up hard    1101   Pull down hard    1110   VCO divider output to digital    1111   Crystal oscillator buffer output     H    gt        D  as  O  H   O  LLI  H   LLI  Q       D       LLI     2  e   gt   O  2                       LL        5 4  R W GPO Static Test Value 2 00b Static test values for GPIO        Only LSB is used    7 6  R W   GPO Output Enable 2 116 1   Enable GPIO output   0   Configure GPIO as input                                For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com       E Hittite    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    RoHS v 
45. lta Sigma  Modulator    Synthesizer HMC983LPSE                   Figure 25  Typical Application of HMC984LPA4E with HMC983LP5E to Form a Frequency Synthesizer    HMC984LP4E is a high performance low noise phase detector and charge pump  It consists of the following main  functional blocks     1  Reference Crystal Buffer   Reference Path  R  Divider   Differential Phase Frequency Detector  5 V Charge Pump   Two Lock Detect Circuits    2a              Serial Port Interface    PLL Performance Metrics  Figure of Merit  Noise Floor  and Flicker Noise Models     The phase noise of an ideal phase locked oscillator is dependent upon a number of factors     a  Frequency of the VCO  and the Phase detector   b  VCO Sensitivity  kvco  and VCO and Reference Oscillator phase noise profiles  c  Charge Pump current  Loop Filter and Loop Bandwidth   d  Mode of Operation  Integer  Fractional modulator style    The contributions of the PLL to the output phase noise can be characterized in terms of a Figure of Merit  FOM  for  both the PLL noise floor and the PLL flicker  1 f  noise regions  as follows     PLL PHASE  m  NOISE 95  6          pd     Eq 1           m       For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    erittite     HwcosaeaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    RoHS v  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR  
46. mple locked VCO phase noise  approximation is shown on the left of Figure 25     Po     e  H        Figure 32  Synthesizer Phase Noise  amp  Jitter  With this simplification the single sideband integrated VCO phase noise    2   in rads  at the phase detector is given by    osse    C  Eq 6        For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    erittite   nwcosaaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    RoHS v  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    EARTH FRIENDLY    where        ss f0  is the single sideband phase noise in rads  Hz inside the loop bandwidth  B is the    dB corner frequency of  the closed loop PLL and N is the division ratio of the prescaler     The rms phase jitter of the VCO in rads       results from the power sum of the two sidebands          J20 ssp  Eq 7     Since the simple integral of  EQ 6  is just a product of constants  the integral in the log domain can easily be done    For example if the VCO phase noise inside the loop is  100 dBc Hz at 10 kHz offset and the loop bandwidth is 100  kHz  and the division ratio N 100  then the integrated single sideband phase noise at the phase detector in dB is given  by     dB   10log      f  Bm N      100   50   5   40    85 dBrads  or equivalently      10 997    56 urads rms or 3 2  milli degrees rms     While the phase noise reduces by a fa
47. output  The 40 bits  consists of 30 data bits  7 address bits  and the 3 chip id bits  This completes the read cycle     Note that the data sent to the SPI by the host during this portion of the READ operation is stored in the SPI  when SEN is de asserted  This can potentially change the state of the HMC984LP4E  If this is undesired it  is recommended that during the second phase of the READ operation that Reg 00h is addressed with either  the same address or the address of another register to be read during the next cycle        For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    H    gt       QD       O  H   O  LLI  H   LLI  Q      QD       LLI      gt   e   gt    O  2                       LL       H    gt        D        O  H   O  LLI  H   LLI  Q        QD                gt   e   gt   O  2          6  LLI  oc  LL       erittite nwcosaaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION v02 0112    RoHS v  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    EARTH FRIENDLY    SEN        from Master     SCK   from Master     SDI   from Master     SDO   To Master        Figure 35  SPI Timing Diagram  DVDD   5 V 21096  GND   0     Table 4  Main SPI Timing Characteristics                                                    Parameter Conditions Min Typ Max Units  ty SDI to SCK Setup Time 8 nsec  to SDI to SCK Hold Time 8 nsec  tg SCK High Duration
48. parison  is the comparison frequency  Hz         Igp where   Ea 4     Note that this calculation can be performed for the center frequency of the VCO  and does not need refinement for  small differences   lt 25   in center frequencies  Also  operation with unreasonably large charge pump offset may  cause Lock Detect to incorrectly indicate an unlocked condition  To correct  reduce the offset to recommended levels     Reference Crystal Input Buffer    The ultra low noise phase detector requires the best possible reference signal  The low phase noise reference input  buffer is optimized for this purpose  The input pin XREFP is DC coupled internally and there is 800 mV DC bias on  the pin  The reference source should be AC coupled to the pin  The maximum input power can be up to 12 dBm from  a 50    source  In order to achieve best phase noise performance  the reference source should have a phase noise  floor of  160 dBc Hz or better     Reference Path    R    Divider    HMC984LP4E has 14 bit frequency divider that divides the incoming reference frequency by any number from 1 to  214 1   16 383 inclusive  The maximum frequency at which the phase detector can work depends on the mode of  operation when working as a PLL with its companion chip HMC983LP5E  In integer mode  the reference buffer and  divider can work up to 175 MHz  and in fractional mode the maximum frequency is typically 125 MHz  Hence higher  crystal frequencies need to be divided down by the R divider in order to 
49. pical serial port  operation can be run with SCK at speeds up to 30 MHz     The details of SPI access for the       9841        are provided in the following sections  Note that the READ operation  below is always preceded by a WRITE operation to Register O to define the register to be queried  Also note that  every READ cycle is also a WRITE cycle in that data sent to the SPI while reading the data will also be stored by the  HMC984LP4E when SEN goes high  If this is not desired then it is suggested to write to Reg 00h during the READ  operation so that the status of the device will be unaffected     Power on Reset and Soft Reset    The HMC984LP4E has a built in Power On Reset  POR  and a serial port accessible Soft Reset  SR   POR is  accomplished when power is cycled for the HMC984LP4E while SR is accomplished via the SPI by writing Reg 00h    80h  followed by writing Reg 00h   OOh  All chip registers will be reset to default states approximately 250 us after  power up     Serial Port WRITE Operation  The host changes the data on the falling edge of SCK and the HMC984LP4E reads the data on the rising edge   A typical WRITE cycle is shown in Figure 1  It is 40 clock cycles long     1  The host both asserts SEN  active low Serial Port Enable  and places the MSB of the data on SDI followed  by a rising edge on SCK     2  HMC984LP4E reads data on SDI  the MSB  on the 1st rising edge of SCK after SEN        For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation 
50. r of  the spurious product  Higher values of m produce smaller amplitude spurious at offsets of mA and usually when    gt  4  spurs are small or unmeasurable     The worst case  in fractional mode  is when d 1  and the VCO frequency is offset from n fyg by less than the loop  bandwidth  This is the  in band fractional boundary  case     fvco n  integer                       d 1  Integer m 1 1st order Integer  Boundary A lt  Loop Bandwith Boundary  1st Order Integer Boundary Spur        nfpa  n 1  2 fpa  n 1  f pa  n  integer  d 1  fvco m 2 2nd order  Integer A lt  Loop Bandwith Integer  Boundary 2A 2A 2nd Order Boundary         dandi Spur  nfpa  n 1 2 fpa  n 1 fpa    Figure 27  Fractional Spurious Example    Characterization of the levels and orders of these products is not unlike a mixer spur chart  Exact levels of the products  are dependent upon isolation of the various synthesizer parts  Hittite can offer guidance about expected levels of  spurious with our PLL and VCO application boards  Regulators with high power supply rejection ratios  PSRR  are  recommended  especially in noisy applications     When operating in fractional mode  charge pump and phase detector linearity is of paramount importance  Any non   linearity degrades phase noise and spurious performance  Phase detector linearity degrades when the phase error is  very small and is operating back and forth between reference lead and VCO lead  To mitigate these non linearities in  fractional mode it is critical 
51. rent in down direction  VCO      22  R W   Down Offset Current Enable 1 0 Divider is lagging when phase swap is 0        Enables high gain mode for the charge pump with uncontrolled 1     23  RAW    High Gain           Enable 1 0 mA   3 5 mA of additional charge pump current        Charge Pump Op Amp bias select   00   540 pA    25 24  R W   OP Amp Bias 2 11b 01   689 uA   10   943 pA   11   1503 pA        26  R W   CP Force Up Enable 1 0 Force Up current from the charge pump output         27  R W   CP Force Down Enable 1 0 Force Down current from the charge pump output     Force the charge pump output to mid rail voltage  cp force up   28  R W   CP Force Mid Rail Enable 1 0  RegO9h 26   or cp  force dn  RegO9h 27   have precedence over  this bit                           29  R W   Ring Oscillator Output to CP Enable 1 0 Exports ring oscillator to pulluphard pulldnhard for test purpose           Table 10  Reg 05h LKD FLXCPGAIN  Lock Detect  Register  BIT   TYPE   NAME   w   DEFLT   DESCRIPTION        0  R W LD Asymmetric Window Enable 1 0 Enable asymmetric window for Lock Detect        0   Reference is expected first            1  R W  LD Asymmetric Direction Select 1 0 1   VCO Divider is expected first    2  R W   Reference Edge for LD Select 1 g     O Userfalling adgs   1   Use rising edge   Forces UP or DN if phase error exceeds the register value   00   Disabled   4 3  R W   Flex CP Mode Select 2 00b 01   Force when phase error  gt  1 ns     10   Force when phase error  
52. rom the desired locked  frequency  the phase difference at the PD varies rapidly over a range larger than  27 radians  Since the gain of the  PD varies linearly with phase only      to  27  the gain of conventional PDs will cycle from high gain  when the phase  difference approaches a multiple of 271  to low gain  when the phase difference is slightly more than 2r radians  This  phenomena is known as cycle slipping  Cycle slipping causes the pull in rate during the phase acquisition to vary  cyclically as shown in the red curve in Figure 25  Cycle slipping can dramatically increase the time to lock to a value  far greater than that predicted by normal small signal Laplace analysis          time  fo  VCO with CSP            5     8 VCO Frequency with Conventional PFD Cycle Sliping            Figure 30  Cycle Slipping    The HMC984LP4E PD features Cycle Slip Prevention  CSP  only when working in conjunction with the companion  part  the HMC983LP5E  When enabled  the CSP feature holds the PD gain in the appropriate polarity until such time  as the frequency difference is near zero  This enables significantly faster lock times as shown in Figure 25  The use of  CSP feature is enabled with CSP Enable  Reg O1h 4    1  and CSP Output Enable  Reg 01h 13    1   The CSP feature  may be optimized for a given set of PLL dynamics by adjusting the PD sensitivity to cycle slipping  This is achieved by  adjusting CSP Reset Delay  Reg O3h 2 0          For price  delivery and to place orders  
53. s  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    H    gt       QD  oc  O  H   O  LLI  H       Q         D                gt   e   gt   O  2          6  LLI  oc  LL       H    gt        D        O  H   O  LLI  H   LLI  Q        QD                gt   e   gt   O  2                  oc  LL       ervittite  nHwcosaeaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    RoHS v  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR    EARTH FRIENDLY    General Purpose Input Output Pin DO    HMC984LP4E has one GPIO pin DO  This pin normally functions as the output for the lock detect  It can be programmed  to test and probe several internal signals  Following signals are available  Reg O8h 3 0       gpo test out    Lock Detect or Lock Indicator output  PFD UP output going to Lock Detect  PFD DN output going to Lock Detect  R Divider output to digital   R Divider output   Saturation reset Signal   PFD saturation DN  VCO  output  PFD saturation UP  REF  output   10  Ring oscillator test output    o 0o Noc mo0owm      11  One shot pulse output   12  One shot trigger output   13  Pull UP hard   14  Pull down hard   15  VCO divider output to digital   16  Crystal oscillator buffer output   See the serial port section for programming configuration  Reg 08h     Serial Port Interface    The HMC984LP4E features a four wire serial port for simple communication with the host controller  Ty
54. s set to Reg 06h 23 14    512d  then the phase error count has to be between 20 and 50 for 512  consecutive reference cycles before that lock is declared  The thresholds make it easier to define lock condition in  case of fractional operation where the static phase error is expected to be larger due to charge pump offset currents        Chip Address Pins    HMC984LP4E has three programmable chip address bits  which enable the HMC984LP4E to be used in an SPI bus  configuration  Two LSB chip address bits are internal and bond wire programmable at the time of packaging  The MSB  bit is available externally as pin CHIP3  The chip address pins are read at power up and every time the chip is reset   By default  all CHIPS is internally pulled to DVDD thus there is no need to connect the pin to DVDD if the address bit  is to be set as logic high  To assign a 0 to address bit  pin should be connected to ground  The internal CHIP1 and  CHIP2 bits are internally tied to ground     The chip address for the companion chip HMC983LP5E is stored in Reg 09h 2 0  of HMC984LP4E  In cases when an  SPI command is common to both devices  it is not necessary to send separate commands to each part  Both parts  are always listening to the SPI bus and when a common command is issued  they will take the command and update  the corresponding registers  Writing its own chip address to the companion chip address register Reg O9h 2 0  will  disable this feature        For price  delivery and to place order
55. to operate the phase detector with some finite phase offset such that either the reference  or VCO always leads  To provide a finite phase error  extra current sources can be enabled which provide a constant       For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    H    gt       QD        O  H   O  LLI  H   LLI  Q      QD       LLI      gt   e   gt    O  2                       LL       H    gt        D        O  H   O  LLI  H   LLI  Q        QD                gt   e   gt   O  2          6      oc  LL       erittite      nHwcosaaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION v02 0112    RoHS v DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR        EARTH FRIENDLY    DC current path to VDD  VCO leads always  or ground  reference leads always   These current sources are called  charge pump offset and they are controlled via Reg 04h 20 14   The time offset at the phase detector should be  2 5  ns   4 Tps  where Tps is the RF period at the fractional prescaler input in nanoseconds  The specific level of charge  pump offset current is determined by this time offset  the comparison frequency and the charge pump current and can  be calculated from     Required CP Offset    2 5    10 9  4754     Fsomparison  Tps  is the RF period at the fractional prescaler input  sec   lop  is the full scale current setting of the switching charge pump  A   Fcom
56. uously on   0   Normal DN operation    10  R W PD Outputs to LD Enable 1 1 1 Enables PD outputs to Lock Detect in the Digital   1 resets the PD when crystal is exported to the companion  Poo    ae     Reser PDwhenatal Gate     Prescaler Sigma Delta chip HMC983LP5E                For price  delivery and to place orders  Hittite Microwave Corporation  2 Elizabeth Drive  Chelmsford  MA 01824  978 250 3343 tel     978 250 3373 fax   Order On line at www hittite com  Application Support  apps hittite com    erittite nwcosaaE    MICROWAVE CORPORATION  v02 0112    ROHS v  DIGITAL PHASE FREQUENCY DETECTOR        EARTH FRIENDLY    Table 9  Reg 04h Charge Pump Settings Register       BIT TYPE NAME W   DEFLT DESCRIPTION       Charge Pump DOWN MAIN current  20 pA step  127 steps  0000000   Tristate if PFD also disabled       0000001   20 pA    6 0  R W   Up Current 7 Ox7h 0000010   40 pA    1111111 2 2 54 mA       Charge Pump UP MAIN current  20 pA step  127 steps  000   Tristate if PFD also disabled     0000001   20 pA   13 7  R W   Down Current 7 Ox7h   0000010   40 yA    1111111   2 54 mA       Charge Pump offset current magnitude  5 pA step  127 steps    0000000   Tristate if PFD also disabled   0000001   5 pA     20 14  R W   Offset Current 7 Ox7h 0000010   10 pA    1111111   635 pA       Enable for Charge pump offset current in up direction  Reference     21  R W   Up Offset Current Enable 1 0           signal is lagging when phase swap is O        Enable for Charge pump offset cur
    
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