
1.0 Functional Description (Continued)
1.8.1 Lock Detect Output
An analog lock detect status generated from the phase detector is available on the Fo/LD output pin, if selected. The lock detect
output goes high when the charge pump is inactive. It goes low when the charge pump is active during a comparison cycle. The
lock detect signal output is an open drain configuration. When a PLL is in power down mode, the respective lock detect output
is always high.
1.8.2 FastLock Outputs
When configured as FastLock mode, the current can be increased 4x while maintaining loop stability by synchronously switching
a parallel loop filter resistor to ground, resulting in a
2x change in loop bandwidth. The zero gain crossover point of the open loop
gain, or the loop bandwidth is effectively shifted up in frequency by a factor of
√4 = 2 during FastLock mode. For
ω’=2ω, the
phase margin during FastLock will also remain constant. The charge pump current is programmed via MICROWIRE interface.
When the charge pump circuit receives an input to deliver 4 times the normal current per unit phase error, an open drain NMOS
on chip device (FoLD) switches in a second resistor element to ground. The user calculates the loop filter component values for
the normal steady state considerations. The device configuration ensures that as long as a second resistor equal to the primary
resistor value is wired in appropriately, the loop will lock faster without any additional stability considerations to account for.
1.9 POWER CONTROL
Each PLL is individually power controlled by device power-down (PWDN) bits. The Main_PWDN and Aux_PWDN bits determine
the state of power control. Activation of any PLL power-down condition results in the disabling of the respective N-counter and
de-biasing of its respective f
IN input (to a high impedance state). The R-counter functionality also becomes disabled under this
condition.
The reference oscillator input block is powered down when both Main_PWDN and Aux_PWDN bits are asserted. The OSC
in pin
reverts to a high impedance state when this condition exists. Power down forces the respective charge pump and phase com-
parator logic to a TRI-STATE condition. During the power down condition, both N- and R-counters are held at reset. Upon pow-
ering up, the N-counter resumes counting in “close” alignment with the R-counter. The maximum error is at most one prescaler
cycle. The MICROWIRE interface remains active and it is capable of loading and latching in data during all of the power down
modes.
2.0 Programming Description
2.1 MICROWIRE INTERFACE
The LMX237x register set can be accessed through the MICROWIRE interface. A 22-bit shift register is used as a temporary reg-
ister to indirectly program the on-chip registers. The shift register consists of a 20-bit DATA[19:0] field and a 2-bit ADDRESS[1:0]
field as shown below. The address field is used to decode the internal register address. Data is clocked into the shift register in
the direction from MSB to LSB, when the CLOCK signal goes high. On the rising edge of Load Enable (LE) signal, data stored
in the shift register is loaded into the addressed latch.
MSB
LSB
DATA[19:0]
ADDRESS[1:0]
21
2
1
0
2.1.1 Registers’ Address Map
When Load Enable (LE) is transitioned high, data is transferred from the 22-bit shift register into the appropriate latch depending
on the state of the ADDRESS[1:0] bits. A multiplexing circuit decodes these address bits and writes the data field to the corre-
sponding internal register.
ADDRESS[1:0]
REGISTER
FIELD
ADDRESSED
0
Aux_R Register
0
1
Aux_N Register
1
0
Main_R Register
1
Main_N Register
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