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SP8854E
the charge pump outputs when high. During this period the
VCO control voltage will be maintained by the loop filter
components around the loop amplifier but due to the com-
bined effects of the amplifier input current and charge pump
leakage a gradual change will occur. In order to reduce the
change, the duration of the strobe pulse should be minimised.
Selection of a loop amplifier with low input current will reduce
the VCO voltage droop during the strobe pulse and result in
minimum reference sidebands from the synthesiser.
Reference Input
The reference source can be either driven from an external
sine or square wave source of up to 100MHz or a crystal can
be connected as shown in Fig. 5.
Phase Comparator and Charge Pump
The SP8854E has a digital phase/frequency comparator
driving a charge pump with programmable current output.
The charge pump current level at the minimum gain setting is
approximately equal to the current fed into the R
input, pin
19, and can be increased by programming the bus according
to Table 2 by up to 4 times.
V
CC
2
1·6V
R
SET
Pin 19 current =
Phase detector gain =I
PIN19
(mA)
3
multiplication factor
2
p
mA/rad
Bit 15
0
0
1
1
Bit 14
0
1
0
1
Current multiplication factor
1·0
1·5
2·5
4·0
Table 2
To allow for control direction changes introduced by the
design of the PLL, pin 23 is used to reverse the sense of the
phase detector by transposing the F
and F
connections.
In order that any external phase detector will also be re-
versed, programming bit, the F
and F
outputs are also
interchanged by pin 23 as shown in Table 3.
The F
and F
signals to the phase detector are
available on pins 24 and 25 and may be used to monitor the
frequency input to the phase detector or used in conjunction
with an external phase detector. The outputs are disabled by
taking pin 22 low. When the F
and F
outputs are to be
used at high frequencies, an external pull down resistor of
minimum value 330
may be connected to ground to reduce
the fall time of the output pulse.
The charge pump connections to the loop amplifier consist
of the charge pump output and the charge pump reference.
The matching of the charge pump up and down currents will
only be maintained if the charge pump output is held at a
voltage equal to the charge pump reference using an
operational amplifier to produce a virtual earth condition at pin
20. The lock detect circuit can drive an LED to give visual
indication of phase lock or provide an indication to the control
system if a pullup resistor is used in place of the LED. A small
capacitor connected form the C-LOCK DETECTOR pin to
ground may be used to delay lock detect indication and
remove glitches produced by momentary phase coincidence
during lock up.
Control direction (pin 23)
1
0
Pin 20
Current source
Current sink
Output for RF phase lag
Table 3
2
11
2
10
2
9
2
8
2
7
2
6
2
5
2
4
2
3
2
2
2
1
2
0
2
12
2
13
PHASE
DETECTOR
GAIN
CONTROL
(SEE TABLE 2)
3-BIT
A COUNTER
M COUNTER
40
41
42
43
44
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
PIN
Fig. 6 Programming data format