Frequency Synthesizer Design Toolkit

Covers digital sampling effects in modern phase-locked frequency synthesizers from a systems perspective, and discusses all aspects of phase noise, its mathematical modelling and its impact upon different digital communication systems.

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This software is aimed at practitioners wishing to gain a broader systems-based perspective of phase-locked loops. It allows quick and efficient solving of filter and attenuator design problems often occurring in the design of frequency synthesizer haedware and related to RF systems. The software is divided into four modules: "White" provides a highly-integrated lumped-element bandpass filter design program, "COMB" allows the fast design and analysis of microstrip combline filters, "SRD" automatically designs high-performance step-recovery diode multipliers, and "RPAD" considers all resistor permutations and their associated S-parameter quantities.