ABSTRACT
Blind zone in a phase-frequency detector (PFD) reduces the input detection range and aggravates cycle slips. This brief analyzes the blind zone in latch-based PFDs and proposes a technique that removes the blind zone caused by the precharge time of the internal nodes. With the proposed technique, the PFD achieves a small blind zone close to the limit imposed by process-voltagetemperature variations. The comparison between the proposed design and previous works is presented. Fabricated in a 130-nm CMOS technology, the measured blind zone is 61 ps, which is smaller than that of the exis
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