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Frequency Synthesizers

Very few radios are designed for just a single channel anymore, so phase-locked loop frequency synthesizers are everywhere these days! This page provides links to a number of PLL Synthesizer IC manufacturers, provides some design information and design tools. We hope this will help you design or analyze your next Synthesizer.

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Synthesizer Tutorial & Design Information
Synthesizer Manufacturers
Reference Books on Synthesizers
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Synthesizer Tutorial & Design Information

Programmed Test Sources, Inc, Technology in Brief This article summarizes the different types of synthesizers on the market today and describes the technology behind these types. A great place to start!
Fujitsu article, PLL Basics -- Loop Filter Design. This article provides a great introduction to design of a PLL frequency synthesizer.
Accurate Phase Noise Prediction in PLL Synthesizers, Part I, Lance Lascari, Adaptive Broadband Corp.
Accurate Phase Noise Prediction in PLL Synthesizers, Part II, Lance Lascari, Adaptive Broadband Corp.
EDN Access article March 14, 1997, PLL SYNTHESIZERS make channel-hopping swift and sure, by Bill Schweber
Design File's Tutorials and other articles on PLL synthesizers -- there is some neat stuff here!
Cadence White Paper, Modeling and Simulation of Jitter in PLL Frequency Synthesizers
Analog Devices: Single-Chip Direct Digital Synthesis vs. the Analog PLL
National Semiconductor July 1995 application note, A Fast Locking Scheme for PLL Frequency Synthesizers — PDF format, 197K
The Designer's Guide, November 2002 Predicting the Phase Noise of PLL-Based Frequency Synthesizers
Microwaves and RF, September 1999, Design Loop Filters For PLL Frequency Synthesizers
Microwaves and RF, October 1999, PLL Synthesizers Suit Low-Power Wireless Systems

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Synthesizer Manufacturers

GlobalSpec Product Finder for PLL Frequency Synthesizers

Analog Devices PLL Synthesizer Information

Fujitsu's selection of "SUPER PLL" Synthesizer ICs

National Semiconductor's PLLatinum Synthesizer ICs

Nippon Precision Circuits PLL synthesizer ICs

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Reference Books on Synthesizers

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Buy This Book	*Advanced Phase-Lock Techniques (Artech House Microwave Library)* , by James A. Crawford. Hardcover - 510 pages (November 2007). TOC available at www.am1.us/Textbook.htm. Our Price: Click Title for Price and Availability	Buy This Book	*Frequency Synthesizer Design Handbook (The Artech House Microwave Library), by James A. Crawford. Hardcover - 435 pages (July 1994). Our Price: Click Title for Price and Availability*
Buy This Book	*Phase Lock Loops and Frequency Synthesis (Hardcover), by Věnceslav F. Kroupa. Hardcover - 334 pages (June 9, 2003). Our Price: Click Title for Price and Availability*	Buy This Book	*Phase-Locked Loops for Wireless Communications: Digital, Analog and Optical Implementations, by Donald R. Stephens. Hardcover - 440 pages, 2nd edition (November 1, 2001). Our Price: Click Title for Price and Availability*
Buy This Book	*Frequency Synthesizers: Theory and Design (Paperback), by Vadim Manassewitsch. Paperback - 608 pages (September 26, 2005). Our Price: Click Title for Price and Availability*	Buy This Book	*Phaselock Techniques, by Floyd M. Gardner. Hardcover - 450 pages (July 29, 2005). Our Price: Click Title for Price and Availability*
Buy This Book	*Frequency Synthesis by Phase Lock, by William F. Egan. Hardcover - 597 pages 2nd edition (November 1999). Our Price: Click Title for Price and Availability*	Buy This Book	*Digital Frequency Synthesis Demystified : DDS and Fractional-N PLLs (Demystified), by Bar-Giora Goldberg. Paperback - 352 pages (September 1999). Our Price: Click Title for Price and Availability*
Buy This Book	*Phase-Lock Basics, 2nd Edition, by William F. Egan. Hardcover - 441 pages (November 2, 2007). Our Price: Click Title for Price and Availability*	Buy This Book	*Phase-Locked Loop Circuit Design (Prentice Hall Advanced Reference Series)* , by by Dan H. Wolaver. Hardcover - 262 pages (February 1991). Our Price: Click Title for Price and Availability
Cover not Available	*Digital Pll Frequency Synthesizers : Theory and Design, by Ulrich L. Rohde. Hardcover (September 1982). Our Price: Click Title for Price and Availability*	Buy This Book	*Microwave and Wireless Synthesizers : Theory and Design, by Ulrich L. Rohde. Hardcover - 656 pages 1st edition (August 11, 1997). Our Price: Click Title for Price and Availability*