September 2011
Intermediate to advanced
960 pages
25h 22m
English
The oscillators used in RF transceivers are usually embedded in a “synthesizer” environment so as to precisely define their output frequency. Synthesizer design has for decades proved a difficult task, leading to hundreds of RF synthesis techniques. RF synthesizers typically employ phase-locking and must deal with the generic PLL issues described in Chapter 9. In this chapter, we study one class called “integer-N” synthesizers. The chapter outline is shown below. The reader is encouraged to first review Chapters 8 and 9.

Recall from Chapter 3 that each wireless standard provides ...
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