Introduction to Integrated DLLs and PLLs

These are a set of introductory lectures to integrated Delay-Locked Loops, Phase-Locked Loops and their applications. You will find here both the lectures and the lecture notes. For the main bulk of the material the lecture notes should be sufficient for a first reading about the subject. For those looking for an in-depth study a set of references are suggested at the end of the last chapter: 'PLL applications'. A good review of DLLs for TDC applications can be found in Manuel Mota Ph. D. thesis that you can download from this site.

Source code for PLL simulation can be as well downloaded from this site. A bang-bang PLL is modeled using MATLAB and a serializer, with its PLL, is modeled using Verilog. Both files should run as they are when used with MATLAB or Verilog respectively. Please note that they are given here as an examples of PLL modeling and that I can not give any support on their use.

These lectures were presented in:

  • Padova, Italy, May 2006

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