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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

Motorola's PLL Synthesizer IC Product Overview

National Semiconductor's PLLatinum Synthesizer ICs

Nippon Precision Circuits PLL synthesizer ICs

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Reference Books on Synthesizers

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Frequency Synthesizer Design Handbook (The Artech House Microwave Library), by James A. Crawford. Hardcover - 435 pages (July 1994).	Image not available	Digital Pll Frequency Synthesizers : Theory and Design, by Ulrich L. Rohde. Hardcover (September 1982).
Frequency Synthesis by Phase Lock, by William F. Egan. Hardcover - 597 pages 2nd edition (November 1999).		Digital Frequency Synthesis Demystified : DDS and Fractional-N PLLs (Demystified), by Bar-Giora Goldberg. Paperback - 350 pages Bk&Cd Rom edition (September 1999).
Phase-Lock Basics, by William F. Egan. Hardcover - 520 pages (July 1998).		Phase-Locked Loop Circuit Design (Prentice Hall Advanced Reference Series) , by by Dan H. Wolaver. Hardcover - 262 pages (February 1991).
Frequency Synthesizers : Theory and Design, by Vadim Manassewitsch. Hardcover - 624 pages 3rd edition (March 1987).		Microwave and Wireless Synthesizers : Theory and Design, by Ulrich L. Rohde. Hardcover - 656 pages 1st edition (August 11, 1997).