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PLL is short for "Phase Locked Loop". A PLL is a circuit that is able to keep a local (voltage controlled) oscillator synchronized with an independent given signal frequency.

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How to generate a sine wave that is in phase with a generated square wave at 1MHz for lock-in amplifier?

I am building a lock in amplifier (LIA) for fluorescence lifetime measurement using off the shelf components, after going through literature, I have decided to use square wave for excitation of the ...
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STM32F407 PLL config not producing 1ms SysTick

I've a bare metal PLL setup for my STM32F407 which should generate a 168MHz system clock. However for some reason the 1ms SysTick interrupt is orders of magnitude off the grid. The math works out on ...
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Phase lock loop frequency of reference signal

I am writing code for a phase locked loop in MATLAB. Up to now, I assumed that the frequency of the input signal is given (known) and I choose the frequency of my VCO close or exactly the same as the ...
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About PLL input frequency

I am working on a PLL design. I am at the research stage now. I am confused about the PLL input frequency range. This frequency has to remain constant. If this input frequency stays constant, how can ...
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What Exactly Is Meant by a 2nd Order Phase Locked Loop?

I'm teaching myself about polyphase clock sync for demodulation of OQPSK. An article from gnuradio.org entitled "Polyphase Clock Sync" makes references to a 2nd order loop. The context seems ...
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Creating a large number of crystal-stabilized pulse waves at precise frequencies

I intend to generate 22 separate 50% duty cycle pulse or square waves. The frequencies range from about 5 Hz to 350000 Hz and are all irrational numbers, so I would like as much precision as possible. ...
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How does this phase advance loop filter work?

I am reading this paper titled A Versatile Digital GHz Phase Lock for External Cavity Diode Lasers. This is part of the circuit. I am confused about the functionality of the part labeled "Phase ...
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PLL placing fails on Lattice 5LP1K

I have a board with a Lattice ICE40 5LP1K FPGA that does some small jobs like handling communication protocol and some IOs. My problem is that I cannot compile the project as the IceCube tells me <...
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PLL multiplier input output phase

I need to pass a 100MHz continous clock between an MCU and FPGA. The clock edges are aligned to various interface signals between both devices. I wonder if I can pass a submultiple of the clock like ...
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Costas Loop QPSK/4QAM

I can use a Costas Loop, modified for QPSK/4QAM and recover the frequency and phase successfully when using a pattern of all 1s or all 0s or a pattern that is repetitive for each I and Q data rail (in ...
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Differences between phase locked loop on PCB and on breadboard

I have a question with regard to the differences between a PLL on a PCB and on a breadboard. In this test, I have connected the output of the amplifier (LMH6503) to both the PLL on the PCB and the PLL ...
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finding PID coefficient for my PLL system

I have a feedback loop as shown below,We are fixing the noisy YIG with a cavity resonator and feedback.(shown in the attached paper and diagram below). the phase difference between the signal is ...
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Are two FPLLs in sync?

Two FPLLs are being driven by a common clock and the output of each FPLL is used to drive a counter after achieving a lock. When we turn on the circuit both FPLLs miraculously lock EXACTLY at the same ...
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Debugging PLL STW81200TR not locking

I need a bit of debugging help with SWT81200 PLL that I am using on my custom designed PCB. I am able to configure registers through SPI communication, but the problem is that I am not able to achieve ...
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Type 2 comparator locking on ringing

I have successfully designed a 4046 IC with a phase 2 comparator locking to an external 10 MHz VCOCXO. The circuit is simple vcoxco----> divide by 10--> Schmitt Trigger --> divide by 10 -->...
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How to generate correct frequency in DDS using stm32?

I had asked a question a week ago regarding DDS on STM32 and I got some good answers. Based on that I tried to write a code to implement DDS on stm32. In my project I need to generate a 10 KHz sine ...
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How to generate a continuous clock from one that periodically turns off?

I have a LVDS clock signal that is gated about ever 30us. This is a MIPI D-PHY clock that switches from HS mode to LP mode when the data lanes go to LP mode (and are auto-clocked). The problem is that ...
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Driving high impedance load with Crystek Sine Wave Oscillator- CCSS-945X-25-100.000

I am planning to use Crystek CCSS-945X-25-100.000 sine wave oscillator to drive the reference CLKin pins of TI PLL IC LMK04832 . Now in datasheet of oscillator, output power mentioned is 5dBm into 50 ...
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Can't find transistor-based PLL circuit example

I am learning electronics as a hobby. My current interest is phase locked loops (PLL.) I was able to find a lot of block diagrams with explanations of how PLLs work and also CD4046 based PLL ...
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How to generate fast clock signal with MAX10 and PLL?

I'm using 10M50 FPGA to read data from a camera via MIPI-CSI2, but the clock I have on the board can't operate fast enough. So right now i'm trying to use the PLL to generate faster clock signal. I'm ...
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What is the maximum PLL output frequency in the STM32H7A3?

I'm setting up a hyperram, and I want to run it at 200MHz, with the DHQC setting enabled. The peripheral manual on page 874 says: DHQC must not be set when the prescaler value is 0, as this action ...
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Designing loop filter for frequency-modulated PLL

I'm designing a PLL circuit to stabilize a ~200MHz VCO against temperature-induced frequency drift. However, I need to be able to occasionally (~few times/sec) send a short pulse (~few μs) to modulate ...
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Simulation of PLL

I am simulating a PLL with a reference frequency of 25 MHz, VCO freq of 450 MHz. I want to plot the gain versus frequency offset of the closed loop PLL in cadence. How should I give the inputs to get ...
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How to synthetize a 10 kHz signal from 1 Hz analogically

I would like to synthesize a 1 Hz signal to a 10 kHz one without using MCU or related DPLLs. Anyone has a schematic example? I found this reference schematic on Art of Electronics. Would that suit (...
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How to find the direction of phase difference of sine signals using multiplier phase detector?

I am using a multiplier phase detector like here 1to find the phase difference between two phase shifted sine signals, and I got the value of magnitude but how to find if the signal 2 is leading/...
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Using MMCM/PLL source clock pin elsewhere in design breaks timing

TL;DR: New to Vivado Clocking Wizard, using the clock pin from the FPGA for anything other than the input to MMCM/PLL IP fails timing. I'm working with Vivado ML 2022 in VHDL targeting an Artix-7 FPGA ...
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Best way to close GPSDO PLL digital loop?

I am trying to build a GPSDO with a holdover capability of 500us/24hs (maximum drift accumulated). The system uses a 10MHz OCXO and it is my intention to use a microcontroller (ATMega, STM or ...
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Calculating AC-Coupled input current

I'm using an SDR which uses and ADF4002-based PLL with its REFIN input AC-coupled via a 0.1 uF capacitor to an external input. I'd like to connect an external reference clock to it, but I'm unsure how ...
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N-counter issue ADF4001

I designed and tested a PCB with a PLL circuit. The goal is to lock on the reference signal which is a square wave. The problem I am having is that the signal of the N-counter shows no response, just ...
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Converting the 400 picosecond pulse train to 15 MHz clock signal

My goal: I am trying to phase lock a 74HC-based digital circuit from a clock reference at 10~15MHz pulse repetition rate. The pulse width is around 400 picosecond. The peak voltage is sometimes below ...
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Problems Comparator II of this CD4046 for LTspice

I downloaded a CD4046B model from user ale_t, which can be found here: https://www.electro-tech-online.com/threads/new-spice-model-for-cd4046b-phase-locked-loop-ic.149093/ However, the Phase ...
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Clock crystal oscillator and PLL accuracy

If I use an 8 MHz oscillator with accuracy of 25 ppm and the PLL multiplies it to 32 MHz, then the accuracy is also multiplied (x4 = 100 ppm) or is it not? Thanx.
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Frequency multiplication with PLL circuit

I am currently working on frequency multiplication with a PLL circuit. I want to give it an input frequency of 10 kHz to 100 kHz and I want to get 160 kHz to 1.6 MHz from the VCO output. That's a ...
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Thermal shutdown in HMC510, HMC507 and ADF4159

We have following chip combination cards:- ADF4159CCPZ-RL7 and HMC507LP5ETR ADF4159CCPZ-RL7 and HMC510LP5E We have both PLL and VCO are on a single board. We are using same board for above combination....
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How to get freq stability with constant offset for PLL synthesizer?

I used ADF5356 PLL synthesizer. And i use reference oscillator freq is 10MHz with initially offset 0.1ppm and stability is 10 ppb. I need to output freq is 3750 MHz. Expected output result: 10MHz × 0....
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Implementing direct digital synthesis in STM32 microcontroller

I am working on a project that requires phase locking (digitally) of an output signal from a sensor to the reference signal which needs to be done on STM32 microcontroller. I am new to this area, and ...
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Meaning of "three-stating" a PLL charge pump

I am designing a phase lock circuit using an Analog Devices ADF4107 PLL Frequency synthesizer (https://www.analog.com/en/products/adf4107.html). The PLL is programmed manually and one of the settings ...
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PLL design in amplifier

We have designed a PLL for an operating range of 11-14 GHz. The output of the VCO goes directly to the amplifier, and then to a divider, see the picture. Is there anything that affects PLL locking ...
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Reliability issue of HMC833 PLL

We are using an HMC833LP6GE PLL in our design for generating 122.88 MHz from a reference of 100 MHz. We are feeding a reference signal of >5 dBm. What we are observing is that out of 10 times, if ...
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What does this symbol of a PNP BJT transistor with extra connections to the base and collector represent?

I am trying to understand the internal circuit schematic of the LM565 phase locked loop IC, on page 6 of this datasheet: PDF Datasheet for LM565 from TI website In the upper middle, there is a strange ...
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Matlab digital phase locked loop script

I am trying to extract carrier signal from amplitude modulated signal. The amplitude modulated signal is stored in a CSV file. I tried to calculate calculate carrier frequency by calculating the zero ...
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PLL minimum frequency: how much tolerance?

Many FPGAs have phase-locked loops which can multiply the frequency of a clock. The signal path of a PLL is rather simple: ...
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Selecting optimal phase locked loop (PLL) frequency for microcontroller peripherals

Typically microcontrollers use an input clock source with a certain frequency. This clock source is then divided and multiplied to a PLL frequency which is much higher. Finally, the PLL frequency is ...
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How did he calculate the error in this example?

He found an error of about 18%. What is the error formula used in this example? From section 1.5.1 of the book Design of PLLs by Behzad Razav.
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CD74HC4046 PLL slipping with off-air reference frequency

I am trying to use the Radio 4 198kHz carrier frequency to discipline a PLL, in order to generate a pulse-per-second (PPS) output that is stable over several hours. The issue I am facing is that the ...
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Designing circuit of clock recovery from data line [duplicate]

I am currently struggling with the following challenge. In the system I am currently designing, the transmitting device is equipped with an image sensor with MIPI output (1 data line, 12 Mbit data ...
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Oscillator with low frequency drift

I need a ~70MHz oscillator with low frequency drift (less than 1%) over a wide temperature range (10°C to 50°C). I dont have any experience with oscillators, so I have no idea which type of oscillator ...
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ATTiny861A fast PWM mode not working

For a couple of hours, I struggle to find the source of my PWM output to not generate a PWM signal. I changed register values to explicitly show their contents - I hope it will make the diagnostics ...
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LMX2820 readback operation [duplicate]

How can a readback operation be done on LMX2820? I've looked through over it's datasheet, register map and AN documents and there is no information about that. In LMX2594 read and write operations are ...
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I2C Protocol. Receiving a byte from slave device. How does the slave pull down the SDA line between two edges of SCL?

As we know, the waveforms of the I2C signals (SDA and SCL) are very similar to the following: The main requirement is that during the transmission of a byte, the SDA does not transition while SCL is ...

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