Inventors:
Richard Ellis Jennings - Garland TX, US
Md Anwar Sadat - Plano TX, US
John Thomas Wilson - Allen TX, US
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated - Dallas TX
International Classification:
H03L 7/085, H03L 7/093
US Classification:
331 17, 331 25, 327156, 327157
Abstract:
In a method and apparatus for controlling damping and bandwidth in a phase locked loop (PLL), a loop filter is configured to have a dual path for charge pump current. A 3 dB bandwidth of the PLL is controlled by adjusting gain of a proportional current path. An integral current path includes a gating circuit to digitally control an amount of time an integral charge pump current received is passed through as an effective integral charge pump current. A resistor and capacitor (RC) circuit filters the proportional and effective integral charge pump currents, thereby providing a filtered input to a voltage controlled oscillator. Damping and hence peaking of the PLL is precisely controlled by sampling one of every p samples of the integral charge pump current to provide the effective integral charge pump current, p being an integer.