SNAS844 November 2024 LMK5B12212
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Figure 8-4 shows APLL2 in cascaded mode from APLL1. VCO1 is held near the nominal center frequency of 2500MHz while APLL2 acquires lock. Subsequently, APLL1 locks the VCO1 frequency to the external XO input and operates in free-run mode. Cascaded PLLs lock to a divided frequency from the source VCO. Once a valid DPLL reference input is detected beyond a minimum valid time, the DPLLs begin lock acquisition. Each DPLL TDC compares the phase of the selected reference input clock and the FB divider clock from the respective VCO and generates a digital correction word corresponding to the phase error. At beginning, the TDC simply cancels out the phase error with no filtering correction word. Then subsequent correction words are filtered by the DLF, and the DLF output adjusts the APLL N divider numerator to pull the VCO frequency into lock with the reference input.
Using the VCBO as a cascade source to APLL2 provides the APLL a high-frequency, ultra-low-jitter reference clock. This unique cascading feature can provide improved close in phase noise performance if the XO/TCXO/OCXO is a low frequency or has poor phase noise performance.
In above example, APLL1 is the upstream PLL, while APLL2 is the downstream PLL. If there are system start-up requirements on the clock sequencing, APLL2 also can be configured as the upstream PLL.
In this case, VCO2 can track the VCO1 domain during DPLL1 lock acquisition and locked modes, allowing the clock domain of APLL2 to be synchronized to the DPLL1 reference input.
Do not cascade one VCO output to both the DPLL reference and APLL reference of the same DPLL/APLL pair.