Phase Locked Loops: Theory, Design, and Applications [Hardcover]

Roland E. Best (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0070060517 | ISBN-13: 978-0070060517 | Publication Date: October 16, 1996 | Edition: 3 Har/Dsk

ide includes new Windows software for creating interactive PLL simulations--a feature that presents a new dimension in PLL design--as well as an entirely new directory of commercially available PLLs. Readers learn how to perform a PLL design from start to finish, then use the simulation program to check and optimize performance.

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From the Back Cover

An update of the definitive guide to PLLs-now with fully interactive PLL design software The Third Edition of this best-selling book/disk package will give you the skills needed to design efficient phase-locked loop (PLL) circuits-including digital PLLs and other recent innovations-for all kinds of electronic devices. It contains a new disk of PLL simulations for Windows, offering greater user interaction and better printing features. Completely revised and updated, the book provides you with clear, concise coverage of the theory, design, and applications of all four types of PLL circuits: the linear PLL... the classical digital PLL... the all-digital PLL... and the software PLL. Throughout the work, the author employs simplified design equations, which present the key parameters of each PLL type in a very compact form. You'll also find detailed case studies illustrating the positive and negative effects of particular designs-plus an entirely new directory of commercially available, state-of-the-art PLL circuits. The unique organization of this improved Third Edition will enable you to perform a PLL design from start to finish-and then use the simulation program to check and optimize performance.

About the Author

Dr. Roland E. Best (Zurich, Switzerland) is the founder of Best Engineering and world-renowned authority of phase locked loops, circuit design, and microprocessor applications. Dr. Best has worked for Sandoz A.G. and the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 365 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx); 3 Har/Dsk edition (October 16, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070060517
• ISBN-13: 978-0070060517
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,922,188 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Basics of analog & digital PLLs, orthogonal to Wolaver., October 21, 2001

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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 Loops: Theory, Design, and Applications (Hardcover)

This book is certainly worth owning. It is 1 of 7 PLL books that I own. I use it as a reference for the basic PLL linearized transfer functions even after I found that the transfer function for the 2nd order PLL with ideal integrator is incorrect.

Best covers analog PLLs with each block replaced by a digital implementation based on the incremental improvements made in standard TTL implementations of PLLs offered over the decades. This allows the reader to fully understand each digital block and the PLL in a way that is excellent for an introductory text.

The digital PLL is a numerical implementation of each PLL function, which has by definition an analog function. One way to implement such a numerical PLL is via replacing each analog function with the equivalent numerical function, without much focus on the Z domain and digital signal processing (DSP) concepts. That is what this book does. Look elsewhere for a book with heavy use of Z domain math (consider the Kluwer Acedemic Press Book 'Phase-Locked Loops for Wireless Communications: Analog and Digital' by Stephen (?) for more DSP math.

Best's approach is viable. I have personally designed a leading edge all-digital PLL, adding patent pending analog enhancements, and can asure the reader that straight-forward DSP approaches do not lead to the optimal designs, at least at the high data rates. Understanding of the PLL in analog form, and then adding the digital analogues is an excellent way to go. Best's book is surprisingly very different from Wolaver's book, almost orthogonal; start with Wolaver, then add Best if adding digital gates step by step to an analog PLL is of interest to you (it was to me).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good book to learn the theorie of PLL, February 4, 1999

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This review is from: Phase Locked Loops: Theory, Design, and Applications (Hardcover)

I think this book give designers a good understanding of the fundamental theorie of PLLs. It gives you step by step the necessarly mathematical background to understand how a PLL is working. The examples are mostly for analog PLLs, but the mathematical theories are the same for all kind of implementations.

I really like the chapter where the different PLL-Parameters are defined: It clearly explains and defines the different working modes like "hold", "lock" or "pull-in".

The book is not for people who are looking for prepared applications. Even when the subtitle of the book suggests this.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book for Intro to PLL (PCB Level), September 27, 2009

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Stanley J. Goldman "sgoldman" (Dallas, Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Phase Locked Loops 6/e: Design, Simulation, and Applications (Hardcover)

This book provides explanations of PLL behavior with an easy to understand methodology that includes analogies of PLLs to mechanical systems. He covers analog, digital, all digital, and software PLLs. He has a good explaination of all digital PLLs and is one of the few books that has a practical chapter on making measurements on a PLL. A computer simulation program is provided that helps readers look at PLL performance. The only issue with this book is that it does not cover transistor level components so that IC engineers can design a PLL.

Stan Goldman RF/IC Engineer [...]
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