PLL IP

Perceptia’s second generation PLLs are available on technologies from 5nm to 40nm and across multiple foundry partners. We are continually expanding the range of products and technologies where they are silicon proven and can quickly port any PLL to other technologies or foundries upon request.

We offer 4 lines of PLLs:

RF Frequency Synthesizer PLLs

Perceptia’s DeepSub™ pPLL08N is a family of all digital RF Frequency Synthesizer PLLs featuring industry leading jitter (< 300fs), phase noise and compact area suitable for RF applications, including 5G, WiFi and … at frequencies up to 8GHz. It is suitable for use as an LO and/or clocking ADCs/DACs with demanding SNR requirements.

Benefits Applications
  • Fractional Multiplication with frequencies up to 8GHz
  • Extremely low jitter (< 200fs RMS)
  • Small size  (< 0.05 sq mm)
  • Low Power (< 15mW)
  • Support for many wireless standards including 5G and WiFi
  • Easy integration
  • RF LO
  • Clock for RF ADC/DAC
  • 5G and LTE radio (3GPP)
  • WiFi Radio (802.11ax)
  • SerDes
  • Optical transceiver

pPLL08N is currently available in the following technologies:

Please ask if your preferred technology  is not on this list in case the website is not currently up to date. We can port any PLL to any technology on request.

Performance Computing PLLs

Perceptia’s DeepSub™ pPLL03F is a family of all digital PLLs featuring low-jitter and compact area suitable for clocking applications with critical timing requirements at frequencies up to 4GHz. It is suitable as a clock source for performance computing blocks and ADCs/DACs with moderate SNR requirements.

Benefits Applications
  • Fractional multiplication with frequency up to 4GHz
  • Low jitter (< 10ps RMS)
  • Small size  (< 0.01 sq mm)
  • Low Power (< 5mW)
  • Support for multi-PLL systems with tens of PLLs per SoC
  • Easy integration
  • Performance Computing
  • Complex SoCs with many clock domains
  • Low-jitter applications
  • Moderate SNR ADC/DAC

pPLL03F is currently available in the following technologies:

Please ask if your preferred technology  is not on this list in case the website is not currently up to date. We can port any PLL to any technology on request.

General Purpose PLLs

Perceptia’s DeepSub™ pPLL02F is a family of all purpose all digital PLLs featuring low-jitter and compact area suitable for many clocking applications at frequencies up to 2GHz. It is suitable as a clock source for moderate speed microprocessor blocks and other logic.

Benefits Applications
  • Low jitter (< 18ps RMS)
  • Small size  (< 0.01 sq mm)
  • Low Power (< 3.5mW)
  • Support for multi-PLL systems
  • Easy integration
  • Fractional Multiplication
  • Moderate speed digital systems
  • Microprocessors
  • General-purpose PLL

pPLL02F is currently available in the following technologies:

Please ask if your preferred technology  is not on this list in case the website is not currently up to date. We can port any PLL to any technology on request.

Low Power PLLs

Perceptia’s DeepSub™ pPLL05F is a family of low power, low voltage all digital PLL featuring low-jitter and compact area. It is suitable for IoT and embedded clocking applications in systems running below the nominal core voltage at frequencies up to 1GHz. It is suitable as a clock source for moderate speed microprocessor blocks and other logic.

Benefits Applications
  • Small size  (< 0.01 sq mm)
  • Low Power (< 1.0mW)
  • Support for multi-PLL systems
  • Easy integration
  • Fractional Multiplication
  • IoT
  • Embedded
  • Moderate speed digital systems

pPLL05F is currently available in the following technologies:

Please ask if your preferred technology  is not on this list in case the website is not currently up to date. We can port any PLL to any technology on request.