A Low-Noise, Wide-BW 3.6GHz Digital ΔΣ Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer with a Noise-Shaping Time-to-Digital Converter and Quantization Noise Cancellation

A digital fractional-N frequency synthesizer is presented that leverages a noise-shaping time-to-digital converter (TDC) and a simple quantization noise cancellation technique to achieve low phase noise with a wide PLL bandwidth of 500kHz. In contrast to previous cancellation techniques, this structure requires no analog components and is straightforward to implement with standard-cell digital logic.