Phase-Locked Loop Circuit Design [Paperback]

Dan H. Wolaver (Author)

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Publication Date: February 8, 1991 | ISBN-10: 0136627439 | ISBN-13: 978-0136627432 | Edition: 1

This volume introduces phase-locked loop applications and circuit design. Drawing theory and practice together, the book emphasizes electronics design tools and circuits, using specific design examples, addresses the practical details that lead to a working design. Wolaver assumes no specialized knowledge in the area covered, reviewing basics as necessary; makes heavy use of figures to support the understanding of phase-locked loop theory and circuit operation; extensively discusses frequency acquisition means, an intensely nonlinear phenomenon; treats injection locking, a practical and often confounding problem; and takes a unique approach to characterizing the phase-locked loop parameters.

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This volume introduces phase-locked loop applications and circuit design. Drawing theory and practice together, the book emphasizes electronics design tools and circuits, using specific design examples, addresses the practical details that lead to a working design. Wolaver assumes no specialized knowledge in the area covered, reviewing basics as necessary; makes heavy use of figures to support the understanding of phase-locked loop theory and circuit operation; extensively discusses frequency acquisition means, an intensely nonlinear phenomenon; treats injection locking, a practical and often confounding problem; and takes a unique approach to characterizing the phase-locked loop parameters.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (February 8, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0136627439
• ISBN-13: 978-0136627432
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,027,105 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best analog PLL reference, most referenced here., December 26, 2000

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Michael E. Wright "professional scientist & e... (Silicon Valley, CA, USA, proud to be an American) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Phase-Locked Loop Circuit Design (Paperback)

You've got to have this PLL book for it's broad range of basics no matter what other more specialized PLL books you acquire. I highly recommend this book. Not a text book. Lots of real world issues discussed, such as jitter, pull, purity, false lock, half lock, jitter generation.

My focus has been building phase-locked loops in to integrated circuits. Analog PLLS. Digital PLLs. Clock recovery PLLs. PLLS with equalizers in front. Software PLLS. This is our most-used and favorite PLL reference book, even though it is not an IC book, it is a PC board level book. Whatever the arcane issue regarding PLL function: noise, false lock, phase linearity range, the author of this book comes through with coverage of it.

A prior reviewer states that this book does not contain frequency-domain negative-feedback-loop control theory analysis or treatment of the charge pump. The book does contain such analysis, but quickly moves away from damping factor and natural frequency to parameters that are more useful in PLL design at the board level. The author's examples are at the system level, the board level, and while there is no charge pump, there is a switched-output equivalent.

It is the only PLL book, out of the 6 that I own, that covers the frequency detector and the many different phase detectors types, each typically applied to different classes of problems solved with different classes of PLLs. There are books with more complete coverage on the implementation of digital signal processing DSP-based PLLs, but for a best general reference on PLL theory and operation, irrespective of implementation type/style, this is your book.

For digital PLLs see: 1) 'Phase Locked Loops: Theory, Design, and Applications' by Best for basic digital PLLs (but beware of what appear to me to be sign ificant errors, such as the equation for the basic 2nd-order ideal integrator transfer function), and 2) 'Phase-Locked Loops for Wireless Communications - Digital and Analog Implementations', which reads like a thesis proving that student author can do the math, but with some more advanced topics, and with the mathematics that follows and supports the leading edge commercial implementations.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good book with a completely different approach towards pll, December 3, 1999

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Portland Reader (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Phase-Locked Loop Circuit Design (Paperback)

This book will give you a good understanding of PLL theory and design with a entire different approach. Author did not use the traditional control theory approach and took a dirrerent root. A good number of practical examples and some new development of phase detectors are covered here. However, the author did not mentioned about charge pump PLL. Author approach may not prepair the readers for reading the current literature since they are based on control theory.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful in the real world, July 28, 2006

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Caleb Fulton (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Phase-Locked Loop Circuit Design (Paperback)

This book is useful in the real world simply because it develops certain topics that other authors gloss over, particularly with respect to phase noise and how the loop filter specifically affects its profile. While there are few actual circuits and practical application hints, its treatment of the PLL as ideal, mostly linear system is still very useful in a qualitative sense.