Phase-Locked Loop Circuit Design

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Review: I'm an EE student and was assigned to design and build a PLL. I purchased this book and found out, it' really sucked. I doesn't show any basic discrete detailed built circuits of VCO's or Phase detectors. I would not recommend it to anyone who has to actually build a pll.

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Summary: good book with a completely different approach towards pll
Review: This book will give you a good understanding of PLL theory and design with a entire different approach. Author did not use the traditional control theory approach and took a dirrerent root. A good number of practical examples and some new development of phase detectors are covered here. However, the author did not mentioned about charge pump PLL. Author approach may not prepair the readers for reading the current literature since they are based on control theory.

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Summary: The best analog PLL reference, most referenced here.
Review: You've got to have this PLL book for it's braod range of basics no matter what other more specialized PLL books you acquire. Highly recommend.

My business now, and one of the businesses of my employer, is focused on building phase-locked loops. Analog PLLS. Digital PLLs. Clock recovery PLLs. PLLS with equalizers in front. Software PLLS. This is our most-used and favorite PLL reference book. Whatever the arcane issue regarding PLL function: noise, false lock, phase linearity range, the author of this book comes through with coverage of it.

Irregardless of what a prior reviewer states, this book does contain the prototypical frequency-domain negative-feedback-loop control theory analysis, but quickly moves away from damping factor and natural frequency to parameters that are more useful in PLL design. The author's examples are at the system level, the board level, and while there is no charge pump, there is the switched-output equivalent.

It is the only PLL book, out of the 6 that I own, that covers the frequency detector and the many different phase detectors types, each typically applied to different classes of problems solved with different classes of PLLs. There are books with more complete coverage on the implementation of digital signal processing DSP-based PLLs, but for a best general reference on PLL theory and operation, irrespective of implementation type/style, this is your book.

For digital PLLs see: 1) 'Phase Locked Loops: Theory, Design, and Applications' by Best for basic digital PLLs (but beware of a few huge errors such as the equation for the basic 2nd-order ideal integrator transfer function), and 2) 'Phase-Locked Loops for Wireless Communications - Digital and Analog Implementations', which reads like a thesis proving that student author can do the math, but with some more advanced topics, and with the mathematics that follows and supports the leading edge commercial implementations.

Rating:
Summary: The best analog PLL reference, most referenced here.
Review: You've got to have this PLL book for it's braod range of basics no matter what other more specialized PLL books you acquire. Highly recommend.

My business now, and one of the businesses of my employer, is focused on building phase-locked loops. Analog PLLS. Digital PLLs. Clock recovery PLLs. PLLS with equalizers in front. Software PLLS. This is our most-used and favorite PLL reference book. Whatever the arcane issue regarding PLL function: noise, false lock, phase linearity range, the author of this book comes through with coverage of it.

Irregardless of what a prior reviewer states, this book does contain the prototypical frequency-domain negative-feedback-loop control theory analysis, but quickly moves away from damping factor and natural frequency to parameters that are more useful in PLL design. The author's examples are at the system level, the board level, and while there is no charge pump, there is the switched-output equivalent.

It is the only PLL book, out of the 6 that I own, that covers the frequency detector and the many different phase detectors types, each typically applied to different classes of problems solved with different classes of PLLs. There are books with more complete coverage on the implementation of digital signal processing DSP-based PLLs, but for a best general reference on PLL theory and operation, irrespective of implementation type/style, this is your book.

For digital PLLs see: 1) 'Phase Locked Loops: Theory, Design, and Applications' by Best for basic digital PLLs (but beware of a few huge errors such as the equation for the basic 2nd-order ideal integrator transfer function), and 2) 'Phase-Locked Loops for Wireless Communications - Digital and Analog Implementations', which reads like a thesis proving that student author can do the math, but with some more advanced topics, and with the mathematics that follows and supports the leading edge commercial implementations.