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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials

University College London

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Article title

A new mechanism producing discrete spurious components in fractional-N frequency synthesizers

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

10.1109/TCSI.2008.916694

Title of journal

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part 1: Regular Papers

Article number

Volume number

Issue number

First page of article

1279

ISSN of journal

1549-8328

Year of publication

2008

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Number of additional authors

Additional information

Fractional-N frequency synthesis is a powerful technique for generating the pure signals with agile tuning needed in modern mobile communications systems, particularly mobile base-stations. This paper describes a new mechanism discovered by the principal author that sets a fundamental limit on the spurious performance of fractional-N frequency synthesisers and thus helps to better understand and design these important subsystems. This work was initially funded by Nokia (Ian Thompson, £49,500) and subsequently by EPSRC (EP/D05012X/1, £213,436, PI: Brennan) and the results described in this paper have been acknowledged by the world’s most eminent expert in this field, Dr Floyd Gardner (California).

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

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