On 21/07/2012 16:28, Alexander Chemeris wrote:
Hi Srdjan,
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Srdjan Milenkovic
<s.milenkovic(a)limemicro.com> wrote:
Hi all,
As far as I am aware, you are currently discussing how to improve LMS6002
PLL phase noise. Below are some inputs from my side which may help.
Yes, here are
some pictures of phase noise we have at UmTRX right now:
http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/umtrx/2012-July/000030.html
It looks like they're 5-12dB higher then data I saw in your
temperature measurement report. First thought is that this could be
due to a clock source. Did you use your EVB board for those
measurements?
Yes, we used Lime EVB, 30.72MHz TCXCO. However, using 26MHz instead
of
30.72MHz TCXCO should not affect phase noise so much (5-12dB). Do you
have an alternative 26MHz TCXCO with better PN? As you quite rightly
mentioned, you are probably limited by TCXCO PN at the moment.
Apart from playing with PLL registers we have two
additional options.
1. Use clean TCXCO which provides 4 times higher reference followed by
divide by 4 to generate PLL reference clock. Recently, we experimented with
30.72*4 MHz TCXCO. Dividing its output by 4 before going into LMS chip we
have got improvement of 6dB in phase noise plateau region.
2. Current PLL loop filter has been designed to cover the whole LMS
frequency range hence using kind of mid value for Kvco. We can customize the
loop filter for a particular band.
Well, we're working with GSM and it has
only four main bands:
GSM-850: 824.2–849.2 UL / 869.2–894.2 DL
E-GSM 900: 880.0–915.0 UL / 925.0–960.0 DL
DCS-1800: 1,710.2–1,784.8 UL / 1,805.2–1,879.8 DL
PCS-1900: 1,850.2–1,909.8 UL / 1,930.2–1,989.8 DL
It would be great if we could optimize for the use in these bands
Let us first try
to recover 5-12dB PN as mentioned above. Redesigning
loop filter will not help at all if we are limited by TCXCO.