[time-nuts] PLL book 3rd edition
Stéphane Rey
steph.rey at wanadoo.fr
Tue Mar 8 08:19:18 UTC 2016
Hi Rick,
There are hopefully many applications where monolythics PLL can't
achieve the requested functionalitities or performances so that there is
still room to build block PLLs. I'm still desiging such things for my
job for instance.
Regards
Stephane F1TJJ
------ Message d'origine ------
De : "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <richard at karlquist.com>
À : KA2WEU at aol.com; "Discussion of precise time and frequency
measurement" <time-nuts at febo.com>
Cc: enrico.rubiola at gmail.com
Envoyé 08/03/2016 04:33:24
Objet : Re: [time-nuts] PLL book 3rd edition
>I know for me, I mainly use the "synthesizer on a chip" IC's
>from Analog Devices/Hittite and National. Their data sheets
>and ap notes serve as the "textbook". I'm not sure there
>will be much call going forward for a book on fundamentals
>that explains how to design synthesizers from first
>principles using basic building blocks. Having designed
>PLL's for over 40 years, I know all about how to do this,
>yet is now a nearly useless skill with the IC's now available.
>Only the IC designers themselves need these skills.
>Occasionally I find myself mentoring these guys in the
>hope of getting better chips to buy :-) (I have a
>patent on a phase detector design that was made into
>a chip, but the chip is built by Keysight's captive
>foundry which doesn't sell much to the merchant market.)
>
>No criticism of the book; it's just a market issue.
>
>Rick N6RK
>
>On 3/7/2016 4:52 PM, KA2WEU--- via time-nuts wrote:
>>To all :
>>
>>I have published the following book
>>
>>" Microwave and Wireless Synthesizers: Theory and Design, Ulrich L.
>>Rohde,
>>John Wiley & Sons, August 1997, ISBN 0-471-52019-5."
>>
>>and have since kind of drifted into the VCO und high stability
>>oscillators.
>>The first edition
>>
>>"Digital PLL Frequency Synthesizers - Theory and Design, Ulrich L.
>>Rohde,
>>Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, January 1983 "
>>
>>has sold more then 10 000 copies. Is there any of you out there who
>>would
>>like to take over a needed update and take over the resulting
>>revenues and
>>unfortunately also the work and glory and who feels qualified to so ?
>>
>>As I am more or less now in microwave technology and less in PLL
>>IC's, I
>>hate to see this standard textbook disappear.... Who can help or want
>>to
>>take over?
>>
>>Ulrich
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>In a message dated 3/2/2016 12:04:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>>time-nuts at febo.com writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>In a message dated 2/16/2016 9:03:59 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>>time-nuts at febo.com writes:.
>>
>>http://www.synergymwave.com/articles/2016/calculation-of-fm-and-am.pdf
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