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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
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A 3.2 GHz Injection-Locked Ring Oscillator-Based Phase-Locked-Loop for Clock Recovery

  • Dorian Vert,
  • Michel Pignol,
  • Vincent Lebre,
  • Emmanuel Moutaye and ,
  • Florence Malou and
  • Jean-Baptiste Begueret
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 November 2022

An injection-locked ring oscillator-based phase-locked-loop targeting clock recovery for space application at 3.2 GHz is presented here. Most clock recovery circuits need a very low phase noise and jitter performance and are thus based on LC-type osc...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
13,389 Views
43 Pages

9 September 2025

Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs) are fundamental building blocks in modern electronic systems, enabling precise frequency synthesis, signal synchronization, and clock generation. This paper provides a comprehensive system-level analysis of PLLs, covering th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in the 'Sensor Networks' Section 2025)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,547 Views
13 Pages

Memristor-Based Loop Filter Design for Phase Locked Loop

  • Naheem Olakunle Adesina and
  • Ashok Srivastava

The main challenge in designing a loop filter for a phase locked loop (PLL) is the physical dimensions of the passive elements used in the circuit that occupy large silicon area. In this paper, the basic features of a charge-controlled memristor are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,882 Views
12 Pages

13 September 2020

A 65–67 GHz phase-locked loop (PLL) with a novel low power phase-frequency detector (PFD) in 65 nm LP CMOS is presented. The PLL consists of a V-band voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), a divide-by-two injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microwave Integrated Circuits Design and Application)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
17 Citations
11,556 Views
9 Pages

Design of Efficient Phase Locked Loop for Low Power Applications

  • Chandra Keerthi Pothina,
  • Ngangbam Phalguni Singh,
  • Jagupilla Lakshmi Prasanna,
  • Chella Santhosh and
  • Mokkapati Ravi Kumar

13 March 2023

The phase-locked loop is a technique that has contributed significantly to technological advancements in many applications in the fast-evolving digital era. In this paper, a Phase Locked Loop (PLL) is designed using 90 nm CMOS technology node with 1....

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of International Conference on “Holography Meets Advanced Manufacturing”)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,527 Views
14 Pages

This paper presents a wideband fractional-N all-digital phase-locked loop (WBPLL) architecture featuring a triple-loop configuration capable of tuning frequencies from 1.9 to 6.1 GHz. The first and second loops, automatic frequency control (AFC) and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue CMOS Integrated Circuits Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,027 Views
13 Pages

28 November 2022

In order to improve the ability of the phase-locked loop (PLL) microsystem applied in the aerospace environment to suppress the irradiation effect, this study presents an efficient charge pump hardened scheme by using the radiation-hardened-by-design...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue MEMS for Aerospace Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,567 Views
25 Pages

A Novel Repetitive Control Enhanced Phase-Locked Loop for Synchronization of Three-Phase Grid-Connected Converters

  • Filip Filipović,
  • Milutin Petronijević,
  • Nebojša Mitrović,
  • Bojan Banković and
  • Vojkan Kostić

26 December 2019

This paper proposes the enhancement of a synchronous reference frame phase-locked loop in terms of its dynamic response and disturbance rejection capability. The improvements were undertaken in order to upgrade the converter grid support capability r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Grid-Connected Converters)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,993 Views
18 Pages

An Optimized Enhanced Phase Locked Loop Controller for a Hybrid System

  • Amritha Kodakkal,
  • Rajagopal Veramalla,
  • Narasimha Raju Kuthuri and
  • Surender Reddy Salkuti

The use of renewable energy sources is the need of the hour, but the highly intermittent nature of the wind and solar energies demands an efficient controller be connected with the system. This paper proposes an adept control algorithm for an isolate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Technologies—Recent Advances and Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
16,131 Views
14 Pages

Design and Emulation of All-Digital Phase-Locked Loop on FPGA

  • Saichandrateja Radhapuram,
  • Takuya Yoshihara and
  • Toshimasa Matsuoka

7 November 2019

This paper demonstrates the design and implementation of an all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). It is useful as an emulation technique to show the feasibility and effectiveness of the ADPLL in the early desi...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,031 Views
14 Pages

Simulation and Design of a PIC-Based Heterodyne Optical Phase Locked Loop

  • Xiu Yang,
  • Chanchan Luo,
  • Ben Zhang,
  • Bocang Qiu and
  • Ruiying Zhang

In this paper, we report on our simulation and design of a photonic integrated circuits (PIC)-based heterodyne optical phase-locked loop (OPLL). Our simulation reveals that the OPLL operation can be in one of three states, i.e., absolutely stable, me...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,346 Views
11 Pages

23 November 2018

Synchronization of large acquisition bandwidth brings great challenges to the traditional second-order phase-locked loop (PLL). To address the contradiction between acquisition bandwidth and noise suppression capability of the traditional PLL, a new...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,246 Views
20 Pages

29 March 2023

The precise control of output power by grid-connected converters relies on the correct identification and tracking of a grid voltage’s phase at the converter terminal. During severe grid faults, large disturbances cause the converter’s op...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,027 Views
16 Pages

An All-Digital Optical Phase-Locked Loop Suitable for Satellite Downlinks

  • Jognes Panasiewicz,
  • Nisrine Arab,
  • Fabien Destic,
  • Gefeson M. Pacheco and
  • Angélique Rissons

28 November 2023

The optical signal propagation used in satellite uplinks and downlinks is influenced by absorption, scattering, and changes in the atmospheric refractive index or turbulence, causing optical signal attenuation. A free space optics (FSO) communication...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,949 Views
19 Pages

A Single-Phase Globally Stable Frequency-Locked Loop Based on the Second-Order Harmonic Oscillator Model

  • Gerardo Escobar,
  • Jonathan Carlos Mayo-Maldonado,
  • Dunstano del Puerto-Flores,
  • Jesus E. Valdez-Resendiz and
  • Osvaldo M. Micheloud

24 February 2021

This paper presents a novel frequency-locked-loop (FLL) scheme that provides estimates of the in-phase and square-phase fundamental components of a distorted single-phase reference signal and an estimate of its fundamental angular frequency. The main...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,695 Views
24 Pages

23 September 2021

In this paper, an adaptive version of the impedance-conditioned phase-locked loop (IC-PLL), namely the adaptive IC-PLL (AIC-PLL), is proposed. The IC-PLL has recently been proposed to address the issue of synchronisation with a weak AC grid by supple...

(This article belongs to the Section A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,727 Views
18 Pages

Grid Synchronization Enhancement of Distributed Generators Using an Adaptive Phase-Locked Loop Tuning System

  • Ahmed M. Elkholy,
  • Ibrahim B. M. Taha,
  • Salah Kamel and
  • Mohamed K. El-Nemr

24 February 2022

This paper proposes an effective algorithm; this algorithm is updating the phase-locked loop (PLL) gains according to the value of the short circuit ratio that will decrease the weak grid effect in the PLL controllers to reduce problems related to re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environment and Electrical Engineering-Edition 2021)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,786 Views
12 Pages

10 January 2022

This paper realized a charge pump phase locked loop (CPPLL) frequency source circuit based on 0.15 μm Win GaAs pHEMT process. In this paper, an improved fully differential edge-triggered frequency discriminator (PFD) and an improved differential s...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,226 Views
13 Pages

10 September 2024

This paper proposes an adaptive acceleration lock compensation technology for phase-locked loops (PLLs) based on a novel dual-mode programmable ring voltage-controlled oscillator (ring-VCO). In addition, a time-to-digital converter (TDC) is designed...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,530 Views
24 Pages

25 June 2023

Determining the loop noise bandwidth and the coherent integration time is essential and important for the design of a reliable digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) in global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers. In general, designers set such par...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue GNSS Signals and Precise Point Positioning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,245 Views
18 Pages

21 March 2018

Synchronous-reference-frame phase-locked loop (SRF-PLL) is widely used in grid synchronization applications. However, under unbalanced, distorted and DC offset mixed grid conditions, its performance tends to worsen. In order to improve the filtering...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Power Electronics Technologies for Power Systems and Machine Drives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,378 Views
14 Pages

A Simplified Gm − C Filter Technique for Reference Spur Reduction in Phase-Locked Loop

  • P. Purushothama Chary,
  • Rizwan Shaik Peerla and
  • Ashudeb Dutta

This paper presents a wideband approach for L5 and S-band integer-N phase-locked loop (PLL) targeting Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) applications. A reference spur reduction technique using a Gm−C filter is proposed. The re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,430 Views
17 Pages

MEMS resonators have attracted attention for their wide applications in highly accurate clock references, sensors, wireless communications, frequency control, etc. Most of the output frequencies of MEMS resonators require post-processing or calibrati...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,832 Views
5 Pages

Optimizing a Cantilever Measurement System towards High Speed, Nonreactive Contact-Resonance-Profilometry

  • Michael Fahrbach,
  • Linus Krieg,
  • Tobias Voss,
  • Maik Bertke and ,
  • Jiushuai Xu and
  • Erwin Peiner
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 November 2018

An existing phase-locked-loop (PLL) based contact-resonance measurement system is studied and optimized. Improvements to the electronics’ circuit to reduce both nonlinear behavior and noise are realized and experimentally tested. The improvements ena...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of EUROSENSORS 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
554 Views
14 Pages

An Enhanced Type 3 Phase-Locked Loop with Improved Frequency Estimation Capability Under Grid Distortion

  • Youfeng Zhou,
  • Xuetong Wang,
  • Chao Luo,
  • Jiawei Yu and ,
  • Yihua Zhu,
  • Guangqi Li and
  • Zhiyong Dai
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 June 2026

This paper proposes an enhanced Type 3 phase-locked loop (ET3-PLL) to improve the frequency estimation performance of the conventional Type 3 synchronous reference frame PLL (SRF-PLL) under harmonic distortion. Frequency response analysis of the conv...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,264 Views
26 Pages

Impact of Phase Locked Loop with Different Types and Control Dynamics on Resonance of DFIG System

  • Zakiud Din,
  • Jianzhong Zhang,
  • Hussain Bassi,
  • Muhyaddin Rawa and
  • Yipeng Song

26 February 2020

In recent years, the doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) operates in a weak grid, rather than a strong grid due to the high proportion of wind energy into the power grid. The impedance interaction between the DFIG system and series and parallel com...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,426 Views
15 Pages

An Adaptive Feed-Forward Phase Locked Loop for Grid Synchronization of Renewable Energy Systems under Wide Frequency Deviations

  • Aravind Chellachi Kathiresan,
  • Jeyaraj PandiaRajan,
  • Asokan Sivaprakash,
  • Thanikanti Sudhakar Babu and
  • Md. Rabiul Islam

29 August 2020

Synchronization is a crucial problem in the grid-connected inverter’s control and operation. A phase-locked loop (PLL) is a typical grid synchronization strategy, which ought to have a high resistance to power system uncertainties since its sen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies for Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,277 Views
11 Pages

Low-phase noise and wideband phased-locked loops (PLLs) are crucial for high-data rate communication and imaging systems. Sub-millimeter-wave (sub-mm-wave) PLLs typically exhibit poor performance in terms of noise and bandwidth due to higher device p...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Engineering and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access

A Radiation-Hardened Self-Biased Phase-Locked Loop for Space-Grade CMOS Image Sensors

  • Bin Wang,
  • Xin Hu,
  • Ling Lv,
  • Xiayu Lv and ,
  • Ziqiang Liu and
  • Longsheng Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 November 2026

With the development of space exploration technologies, space-grade CMOS image sensors require high-performance on-chip clock circuits with low jitter, low power consumption, small area, and excellent radiation robustness. This paper presents a radia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Nano-Semiconductor Devices: Design, Modeling and Next-Generation AI Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,967 Views
20 Pages

19 December 2022

An adaptive digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) continually adjusts the noise bandwidth of the loop filter in global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers to track signals by measuring the signal-to-noise ratio and/or dynamic stress. Such DPLLs h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue GNSS Signals and Precise Point Positioning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,371 Views
17 Pages

In distributed energy grid-connected systems, fast and accurate grid synchronization technology is crucial for system stability. This article proposes an improved phase-locked loop (FECSOGI-PLL) based on frequency error compensation. By introducing a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,585 Views
25 Pages

10 April 2020

The goal of this paper is to explore the effect of various parameters on the information geometric structure of the phase-locked loop (PLL) statistics, both transient and stationary. Comprehensive treatment on the behavior of PLL statistics will be g...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,817 Views
18 Pages

This paper presents an all-digital fractional-N phase-locked loop (ADPLL) operating in the 2.86–3.2 GHz range, optimized for IoT and high-frequency RF transceiver applications demanding stringent phase noise performance, fast settling time, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,234 Views
19 Pages

29 March 2019

In traditional sensorless control of the interior permanent magnet synchronous motors (IPMSMs) for medium and high speed domains, a control strategy based on a sliding-mode observer (SMO) and phase-locked loop (PLL) is widely applied. A new strategy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Rotating Electric Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,030 Views
17 Pages

2 February 2023

This work proposes a structural enhancement and a new technique to design the loop filter (LF) of a third-order phase-locked loop (PLL) to enhance the PLL dynamic performance under abnormal grid conditions. The proposed PLL combines a moving average...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,086 Views
18 Pages

8 May 2023

The moving average filter-based phase-locked loop (MAF-PLL) can obtain grid synchronization signals accurately under adverse grid conditions with a large amount of harmonics due to the high filtering capability of the MAF. However, MAF-PLL cannot ach...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control of Renewable Power Generation and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,636 Views
23 Pages

Iterative Fast Super-Twisting Flux Sliding Mode Observer for SPMSM with Tangent Quadrature Phase-Locked Loop

  • Fujiong Zhao,
  • Yunxia Xie,
  • Jianfeng Mao,
  • Yingjie Xu and ,
  • Gaosheng Li,
  • Rongsheng Jia and
  • Weigang Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 December 2024

Traditional low-order flux sliding mode observer (FSMO) and quadrature phase-locked loop (QPLL) structures generally encounter issues such as estimated signal chattering and inadequate dynamic performance. To overcome these challenges, this paper pro...

(This article belongs to the Section F3: Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,272 Views
22 Pages

23 September 2025

To address the challenges posed by harmonic distortion and DC offset in the power grid, this paper proposes a novel Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) architecture tailored for single-phase grid-connected systems. The design integrates an Enhanced Adaptive Seco...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,839 Views
20 Pages

18 July 2023

The dynamic monitoring, control, and protection of modern power systems in real time require time-stamped electrical measurements to accurately estimate the bus voltage phasors using the state estimation function under normal and abnormal conditions....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,081 Views
10 Pages

13 October 2021

A high-speed programmable frequency divider for a Ka-band phase-locked loop (PLL)-type frequency synthesizer system is presented and fabricated in 90 nm CMOS technology. It consists mainly of a divided-by-8/9 dual-modulus prescaler (DMP) and pulse sw...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analog Microelectronic Circuit Design and Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,979 Views
13 Pages

A Miniaturized Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) Measurement Instrument Based on a Phase-Locked Loop Circuit

  • Jong-Yoon Park,
  • Rocío L. Pérez,
  • Caitlan E. Ayala,
  • Stephanie R. Vaughan and ,
  • Isiah M. Warner and
  • Jin-Woo Choi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) has been widely used in laboratory settings as an analytical tool for recognizing and discriminating biological and chemical molecules of interest. As a result, recent studies have shown there to be considerable...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Electronics: Hot Topics in Bioelectronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,788 Views
17 Pages

Grid-Connected Renewable Energy Sources: A New Approach for Phase-Locked Loop with DC-Offset Removal

  • Mohammad A. Bany Issa,
  • Zaid A. Al Muala and
  • Pastora M. Bello Bugallo

14 June 2023

Renewable Energy Sources (RES) are widely used worldwide due to their positive effect on the environment, being sustainable, low cost, and controllable. The power generated from RESs must be configured to interface and perfectly synchronize with the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,364 Views
19 Pages

A Subsampling Phase-Locked Loop with a Dual Charge Pump Based on Capacitor Multipliers for CMOS Image Sensor

  • Yuguo Lin,
  • Bin Wang,
  • Liqing Jin,
  • Ziyuan Tang and ,
  • Fanshun Ye,
  • Renjie Xie,
  • Longsheng Wu,
  • Guang Shi and
  • Huan Liu
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

10 November 2025

Traditional zero-compensation techniques employed to improve sub-sampling phase-locked loop (SSPLL) stability often exacerbate spur degradation or incur excessive area overhead, rendering them unsuitable for high-resolution image sensor applications....

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Semiconductor Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,132 Views
18 Pages

6 October 2022

In a distributed generation system, the all-pass-filter phase-locked loop (APF-PLL) is a commonly used method for grid synchronization. However, the coupling effect between APF-PLL and current control loop increases the risk of oscillation instabilit...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies and Systems Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,669 Views
15 Pages

14 October 2022

The stability and dynamic performance of the grid-connected converter is greatly affected by the coupling between the phase-locked loop (PLL) and the current loop control under weak grid conditions. The traditional control strategies use PLL to obtai...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,095 Views
19 Pages

17 September 2018

In renewable energy generation applications, phase locked loop (PLL) is one of the most popular grid synchronization technique. The main objective of PLL is to rapidly and precisely extract phase and frequency especially when the grid voltage is unde...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Electronics in Renewable Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,185 Views
22 Pages

3 September 2025

In a phase-locked loop (PLL) synchronized inverter grid-connected system, its equivalent damping coefficient is nonlinearly coupled with the operation power angle. Therefore, under a large disturbance, the indefinite damping increases the risk of tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,868 Views
24 Pages

When three-phase voltages are polluted with unbalance, DC offsets, or higher harmonics, it is a challenge to quickly detect their parameters such as phases, frequency, and amplitudes. This paper proposes a phase-locked loop (PLL) for the three-phase...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Grid-Connected and Isolated Renewable Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
10,436 Views
13 Pages

25 November 2018

A high-accuracy demodulation algorithm is required to estimate angular position and angular velocity from resolver signals. In order to improve the estimation accuracy of conventional phase-locked loop (PLL) based demodulation method, a Chebyshev fil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Signal Processing and Analysis of Electrical Circuit)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,889 Views
12 Pages

10 September 2024

This paper presents advancements in the performance of digital phase-locked loop (DPLL)s, with a special focus on addressing the issue of required gain calibration in the time-to-digital converter (TDC) within phase-domain DPLL structures. Phase-doma...

(This article belongs to the Section Power Electronics)

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