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Phaselock Techniques

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I am gladly surprised to see how the author has taken the effort, not just to make a routine revision of the classic book, but to write a completely different book. Non interesting material has been removed, while new up-to-date topics have been added (for instance Charge Pump PLL), based on the own author research, and other published papers.

The approach of some classic analysis has also changed. In particular the approach to the so called Loop Filter as a controller and not as a filter.

In summary, a very valuable addition to PLL literature, worth to buy even by readers that own previous editions.

Even this book was published about twenty years ago, it is always a great book for phaselock designers!

Superb book. Essential reading and reference for any serious PLL designer. This updated edition does for DPLLs what the original did for analog. I haven't seen any author come close to Gardner for comprehensive, accurate treatment of these topics.

This book is dense and largely mathematical, and provides scant little practical insight. Good as a reference, but not to learn from IMO. Roland Best's "Phase Locked Loops" has a much better balance of readability to mathematical derivation, and he also tries to give the reader an intuition as to what is happening, which illuminates the equations so much better!

I would say that this book is geared for those with at least some experience with designing PLL systems. I originally picked up this book to learn a few things about PLLs. While this book did provide me with quite a bit of knowledge that I did not know before, I have yet to actually design a PLL on my own. On the other hand, I know a lot more of the pros, cons, and limitations of PLLs which are helpful for my job.

I think the sections that stand out the most to me are its two chapters concerning phase noise. First, it gives a basic overview of what phase noise is and its sources. It then goes on to do some comparisons of various types oscillators and their general phase noise characteristics. And of course, since we are talking about PLLs, how designing the close loop system will affect total system phase noise. He even describes (at a high level at least) how phase noise is changed in various RF type elements (mixers, freq multipliers, limiters). If I have questions about phase noise, this is the book that I grab.

I haven't read the sections concerning the digial PLLs, but the coverage on analog PLLs seems in depth. This leads to another nice thing about this book, and that is each chapter is rather self contained, so you can pick and choose to read what portions you think are applicable to your needs. I will be reading the PLL digital sections shortly!

All in all, this is a good book to learn about PLLs, but it may be useful to brush up on your control systems theory first to get the most out of this book.

This is the original, and, in my opinion, still the best reference book on phase lock loops.

a detailed comprehensive coverage of all aspects of phase-locked loops. The book contains lots of paper references relating to each chapter and has many examples as well.
A recommended book for research students.

Este libro contiene todo lo necesario (de lo mas simple, a lo mas avanzado) para poder entender como funciona y como implementar un Lazo de Enganche de Fase (PLL). Ademas está explicado con mucha simpleza y claridad.