A high-performance MUX-direct digital frequency synthesizer with quarter ROMs
Zhikun Hao, Qiang Matthew Zhang, Weining Ni, Yin Shi · Journal of Semiconductors · 2012
This paper presents a detailed description of a high-performance direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS) using optimized quarter ROMs. To improve the working frequency and spectral purity, an original quarter ROMs structure in 0.13 μm CMOS is brought forward and implemented. The working frequency is increased by 40% compared with Yuan Ling's method [ 1 ] of implementing a segmented DAC based DDFS. It has been implemented in 0.13 μm CMOS technology. The DDFS has a resolution of 10 bits with a measured SFDR 54 dBc. Its maximum operating frequency is 1.2 GHz by using six pipelining stages. Analytical investigation of improving spectral performances by using dual-slope approximation and pipeline is also presented.