ICS8402
Integrated
Circuit
ICS8402
350MHZ, CRYSTAL-TO-LVCMOS/ LVTTL FREQUENCY SYNTHE3SI5ZE0RMHZ, CRYSTAL-TO-LVCMOS / LVTTTLSD
Systems, Inc.
FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
NOTE: The functional description that follows describes op- put divider to a specific default state that will automatically
eration using a 25MHz crystal. Valid PLL loop divider values occur during power-up. The TEST output is LOW when op-
for different crystal or input frequencies are defined in the erating in the parallel input mode. The relationship between
Input Frequency Characteristics, Table 5, NOTE 1.
the VCO frequency, the crystal frequency and the M divider
is defined as follows: fVCO = fxtal x M
The ICS8402 features a fully integrated PLL and therefore
requires no external components for setting the loop band- The M value and the required values of M0 through M8 are
width. A fundamental crystal is used as the input to the on- shown in Table 3B, Programmable VCO Frequency Function
chip oscillator.The output of the oscillator is fed into the phase Table.Valid M values for which the PLL will achieve lock for a
detector. A 25MHz crystal provides a 25MHz phase detector 25MHz reference are defined as 10 ≤ M ≤ 28.The frequency
reference frequency. The VCO of the PLL operates over a out is defined as follows: FOUT = fVCO = fxtal x M
N
N
range of 250MHz to 700MHz. The output of the M divider is
also applied to the phase detector.
Serial operation occurs when nP_LOAD is HIGH and
S_LOAD is LOW. The shift register is loaded by sampling
The phase detector and the M divider force the VCO output the S_DATA bits with the rising edge of S_CLOCK. The con-
frequency to be M times the reference frequency by adjusting tents of the shift register are loaded into the M divider and N
the VCO control voltage. Note that for some values of M (either output divider when S_LOAD transitions from LOW-to-HIGH.
too high or too low), the PLL will not achieve lock.The output of The M divide and N output divide values are latched on the
the VCO is scaled by a divider prior to being sent to each of HIGH-to-LOW transition of S_LOAD. If S_LOAD is held HIGH,
the LVCMOS output buffers. The divider provides a 50% out- data at the S_DATA input is passed directly to the M divider
put duty cycle.
and N output divider on each rising edge of S_CLOCK. The
serial mode can be used to program the M and N bits and
The programmable features of the ICS8402 support two in- test bits T1 and T0. The internal registers T0 and T1 deter-
mine the state of the TEST output as follows:
put modes to program the M divider and N output divider.
The two input operational modes are parallel and serial. Fig-
ure 1 shows the timing diagram for each mode. In parallel
mode, the nP_LOAD input is initially LOW. The data on in-
puts M0 through M8 and N0 and N1 is passed directly to the
M divider and N output divider. On the LOW-to-HIGH transi-
tion of the nP_LOAD input, the data is latched and the M
divider remains loaded until the next LOW transition on
nP_LOAD or until a serial event occurs. As a result, the M
and N bits can be hardwired to set the M divider and N out-
T1 T0
TEST Output
LOW
0
0
1
1
0
1
0
1
Shift Register Output
Output of M divider
CMOS Fout
SERIAL
L
OADING
S_CLOCK
S_DATA
T1
T0
*NULL
N1
N0
M8
M7
M6
M5
M4
M3
M2
M1
M0
t
t
H
S
S_LOAD
t
nP_LOAD
S
PARALLEL LOADING
M, N
M0:M8, N0:N1
nP_LOAD
t
t
S
H
S_LOAD
Time
FIGURE 1. PARALLEL & SERIAL LOAD OPERATIONS
*NOTE: The NULL timing slot must be observed.
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ICS8402
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