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A PLL is one of the worst for phase noise. It will have a divider chain which will produce jitter and harmonics of the ref osc, and must absolutely rely on care
by Johnythree 4y ago
A PLL is one of the worst for phase noise. It will have a divider chain which will produce jitter and harmonics of the ref osc, and must absolutely rely on careful tuning of the AFC loop to null out these spurs. And as the filter will be digital rather than analog, there is no chance of optimizing it.
But that is before we get to the modulation. That again will be digital (rather than analog) so by definition will be chock full of jitter, especially if the FM is generated by stepping the clock frequency in finite steps. Not only will this generate large amounts of jitter, but it will generate spurs of the PWM clock over a wide range of frequencies.
- kragen 4y agoI see, thanks!