Description

PLL (Phase Locked Loop) generates a number of clocks required for TX block operation. PLL, synchronized to the external reference clock of 37.5MHz, generates 1.5GHz clock and this clock is divided into 375MHz, 150MHz, and 37.5MHz clocks. The Spread Spectrum Clock (SSC) is to adjust the spread technique not to allow modulation above the nominal frequency. A triangular frequency modulation profile is shown below where  is the nominal frequency in non-SSC mode,   is the modulation frequency, and ¥ä is the modulation amount.




For triangular modulation, it is required that the clock frequency deviation (¥ä) be no more than 0.5% ¡°down spread¡± from the corresponding nominal frequency, i.e. +0%/-0.5%.
Swallow counter is used to realize the SSC function. When SSC is off, PLL divides the source clock N times, and when SSC is on, the source clock is divided into N or N-1 times with proper ratio.


     Features

Items

Value

Unit

    Speed

1.5

GHz

    Spreading Ratio (Down Spreading)

-0.5

%

    Spreading Interval

31.25

KHz

    Setting Time

10~100

uSec

    Ref. Clock

37.5

MHz

    Jitter w/o SSC

<220

pSec


¢¹ Recommend Application
  -. High-speed network application
  -. Serial communication devices, which is required to calibrate impedance between TX and RX.