8.3.1 Device Block-Level Description

The LMK61E0 is an integrated oscillator that includes a 50-MHz crystal and a fractional PLL with integrated VCO that supports a frequency range of 4.6 GHz to 5.6 GHz. The PLL block consists of a phase frequency detector (PFD), charge pump, integrated passive loop filter, a feedback divider that can support both integer and fractional values and a delta-sigma engine for noise suppression in fractional PLL mode. Completing the device is the combination of an integer output divider and an LVCMOS output buffer. The PLL is powered by on-chip low dropout (LDO) linear voltage regulators and the regulated supply network is partitioned such that the sensitive analog supplies are running from separate LDOs than the digital supplies which use their own LDO. The LDOs provide isolation to the PLL from any noise in the external power supply rail. The device supports fine and coarse frequency margining by changing the settings of the integrated oscillator and the output divider respectively.

8.3.2 Device Configuration Control

The LMK61E0 supports I²C programming interface where an I²C host can update any device configuration after the device enables the host interface and the host writes a sequence that updates the device registers. Once the device configuration is set, the host can also write to the on-chip EEPROM for a new set of power-up defaults based on the configuration pin settings in the soft pin configuration mode.

8.3.3 Register File Reference Convention

Figure 4 shows the method that this document employs to refer to an individual register bit or a grouping of register bits. If a drawing or text references an individual bit the format is to specify the register number first and the bit number second. The LMK61E0 contains 38 registers that are 8 bits wide. The register addresses and the bit positions both begin with the number zero (0). The bit address is placed in brackets or after a period. The first bit in the register file is address R0[0] or R0.0 meaning that it is located in Register 0 and is bit position 0. The last bit in the register file is address R72[7] or R72.7 referring to the 8th bit of register address 72 (the 73rd register in the device). Figure 4 also lists specific bit positions as a number contained within a box. A box with the register address encloses the group of boxes that represent the bits relevant to the specific device circuitry in context.

Figure 4. LMK61E0 Register Reference Format

8.3.4 Configuring the PLL

The PLL in LMK61E0 can be configured to accommodate various output frequencies either through I²C programming interface or, in the absence of programming the PLL defaults stored in EEPROM are loaded on power up. The PLL can be configured by setting the Reference Doubler, Integrated PLL Loop Filter, Feedback Divider, and Output Divider. The corresponding register addresses and configurations are detailed in the description section of each block below.

For the PLL to operate in closed-loop mode, the following condition in Equation 1 has to be met.

On LMK61E0M, the output frequency is related to the VCO frequency as given in Equation 2.

The output frequency step size for every bit change in the numerator of the PLL fractional feedback divider is given in Equation 3.

8.3.5 Integrated Oscillator

The integrated oscillator in LMK61E0 features programmable load capacitances that can be set for the device to either operate at exactly its nominal oscillation frequency or operate at a fixed frequency offset from its nominal oscillation frequency. This is done by programming R16 and R17. More details on frequency margining are provided in Fine Frequency Margining.

8.3.6 Reference Divider and Doubler

The reference path has a divider and frequency doubler. The reference divider can be bypassed by programming R24[0] = 0 or can be set to divide-by-4 by programming R24[0] = 1. Enabling the divider results in a lower comparison frequency for the PLL and would result in a 6-dB increase in the in-band phase noise at the output of the LMK61E0 but would result in a finer frequency resolution at the output for every bit change in the numerator of fractional feedback divider. The reference doubler can be enabled by programming R34[5] = 1. Bypassing the divider allows for a higher comparison rate and improved in-band phase noise at the output of the LMK61E0. Enabling the doubler allows a higher comparison frequency for the PLL and would result in a 3-dB reduction in the in-band phase noise at the output of the LMK61E0. Enabling the doubler also results in higher reference and phase detector spurs which will be minimized by enabling the higher order components (R3, C3) of the loop filter and programming them to appropriate values. Disabling the doubler would result in a finer frequency resolution at the output for every bit change in the numerator of the fractional feedback divider and higher in-band phase noise on the device output than when the doubler is enabled. However, the reference and phase detector spurs would be lower on the device output than when the doubler is enabled.

8.3.7 Phase Frequency Detector

The Phase Frequency Detector (PFD) of the PLL takes inputs from the reference path and the feedback divider output and produces an output that is dependent on the phase and frequency difference between the two inputs. The input frequency of the PFD is equal to the 50-MHz reference frequency doubled if the reference doubler is enabled and then divided by 4 if the reference divider is enabled. The feedback frequency to the PFD must equal the reference path frequency to the PFD for the PLL to lock.

8.3.8 Feedback Divider (N)

The N divider of the PLL includes fractional compensation and can achieve any fractional denominator (DEN) from 1 to 4,194,303. The integer portion, INT (valid range 1-4095), is the whole part of the N divider value and the fractional portion, NUM / DEN, is the remaining fraction. INT, NUM, and DEN are programmed in R25/R26, R27/R28/R29, and R30/R31/R32, respectively. The total programmed N divider value, N, is determined by: N = INT + NUM / DEN. The output of the N divider sets the PFD frequency to the PLL. The feedback frequency to the PFD must equal the reference path frequency to the PFD for the PLL to lock. In DCXO mode, the NUM registers can be reprogrammed MSB first and LSB last to update the output frequency without glitches or spikes.

8.3.9 Fractional Engine

The delta signal modulator is a key component of the fractional engine and is involved in noise shaping for better phase noise and spurs in the band of interest. The order of the delta sigma modulator is selectable between integer mode and third order for fractional PLL mode, and it can be programmed in R33[1:0]. Dithering can be programmed in R33[3:2] and should be disabled for integer PLL mode and set to weak for fractional PLL mode.

8.3.10 Charge Pump

The PLL has charge pump slices of 1.6 mA, to be used when PLL is set to fractional mode, or 6.4 mA, to be used when PLL is set to integer mode. These slices can be selected by programming R34[3:0]. When PLL is set to fractional mode, a phase shift needs to be introduced to maintain a linear response and ensure consistent performance across operating conditions and a value of 0x2 should be programmed in R35[6:4]. When PLL is set to integer mode, a value of 0x0 should be programmed in R35[6:4].

8.3.11 Loop Filter

The LMK61E0 features a fully integrated loop filter for the PLL and supports programmable loop bandwidth from 100 kHz to 1 MHz. The loop filter components, R2, C1, R3, C3, can be configured by programming R36, R37, R38 and R39 respectively. The LMK61E0 features a fixed value of C2 of 10 nF. When PLL is configured in the fractional mode, R35[2] should be set to 1. When reference doubler is disabled for integer mode PLL, R35[2] should be set to 0 and R38[6:0] should be set to 0x00. When reference doubler is enabled for integer mode PLL, R35[2] should be set to 1 and R38 and R39 are written with the appropriate values. Figure 5 shows the loop filter structure of the PLL. It is important to set the PLL to best possible bandwidth to minimize output jitter.

Figure 5. Loop Filter Structure of PLL

8.3.12 VCO Calibration

The PLL in LMK61E0 is made of LC VCO that is designed using high-Q monolithic inductors to oscillate between 4.6 GHz and 5.6 GHz and has low phase noise characteristics. The VCO must be calibrated to ensure that the clock outputs deliver optimal phase noise performance. Fundamentally, a VCO calibration establishes an optimal operating point within the tuning range of the VCO. Setting R72[1] to 1 causes a VCO recalibration and is necessary after device reconfiguration. VCO calibration automatically occurs on device power up.

8.3.13 High-Speed Output Divider

LMK61E0M has two integer dividers in series in the output signal path. The VCO post-divider divides the VCO frequency by 4 or 5 and is programmed in R22[5]. The following high-speed output divider supports divide values of 6 to 256 and is programmed in R22 and R23. The output divider also supports coarse frequency margining that can initiate as low as a 5% change in the output frequency. To change the output divider, R23 needs to be programmed first and then R22. This is necessary for the CMOS divider to load the correct divide value.

8.3.14 High-Speed Clock Output

The clock outputs on LMK61E0M support 3.3-V LVCMOS levels. Both pins can be individually set to be the same polarity or opposite polarity of the other, or can be set to high impedance or tri-state. By default, OUT0 is enabled and OUT1 is tristate. OUT0 is controlled by R20[2] and OUT1 is controlled by R24[4]. The slew rate of the LVCMOS output can be set to fast or slow by programming R22[7:6] = 0x0 or 0x2.

8.3.15 Device Status

The PLL loss of lock and PLL calibration status can be monitored by reading R66[1:0]. These bits represent a logic-high interrupt output and are self-cleared once the readback is complete.

8.4.1 Interface and Control

The host (DSP, Microcontroller, FPGA, etc) configures and monitors the LMK61E0 through the I²C port. The host reads and writes to a collection of control and status bits called the register map. The device blocks can be controlled and monitored through a specific grouping of bits located within the register file. The host controls and monitors certain device Wide critical parameters directly through register control and status bits. In the absence of the host, the LMK61E0 can be configured to operate from its on-chip EEPROM. The EEPROM array is automatically copied to the device registers upon power up. The user has the flexibility to rewrite the contents of EEPROM from the SRAM up to 100 times.

Within the device registers, there are certain bits that have read or write access. Other bits are read-only (an attempt to write to a read-only bit will not change the state of the bit). Certain device registers and bits are reserved meaning that they must not be changed from their default reset state. Figure 6 shows interface and control blocks within LMK61E0 and the arrows refer to read access from and write access to the different embedded memories (EEPROM, SRAM).

Figure 6. LMK61E0 Interface and Control Block

8.4.2 DCXO Mode and Frequency Margining

8.4.2.3 Coarse Frequency Margining

Certain systems require the processors to be tested at clock frequencies that are slower or faster by 5% or 10%. The LMK61E0 offers the ability to change its output divider for the desired change from its nominal output frequency as explained in High-Speed Output Divider.

Figure 7. System Implementation With Clock Compensation for Standards Compliance

8.5.1 I²C Serial Interface

The I²C port on the LMK61E0 works as a slave device and supports both the 100-kHz standard mode and 1-MHz fast mode operations. Fast mode imposes a glitch tolerance requirement on the control signals. Therefore, the input receivers ignore pulses of less than 50-ns duration. The I²C timing is given in I2C-Compatible Interface Characteristics (SDA, SCL). The timing diagram is given in Figure 8.

Figure 8. I²C Timing Diagram

In an I²C bus system, the LMK61E0 acts as a slave device and is connected to the serial bus (data bus SDA and lock bus SCL). These are accessed via a 7-bit slave address transmitted as part of an I²C packet. Only the device with a matching slave address responds to subsequent I²C commands. In soft pin mode, the LMK61E0 allows up to three unique slave devices to occupy the I²C bus based on the pin strapping of ADD (tied to VDD, GND or left open). The device slave address is 10110xx (the two LSBs are determined by the ADD pin).

During the data transfer through the I²C interface, one clock pulse is generated for each data bit transferred. The data on the SDA line must be stable during the high period of the clock. The high or low state of the data line can change only when the clock signal on the SCL line is low. The start data transfer condition is characterized by a high-to-low transition on the SDA line while SCL is high. The stop data transfer condition is characterized by a low-to-high transition on the SDA line while SCL is high. The start and stop conditions are always initiated by the master. Every byte on the SDA line must be eight bits long. Each byte must be followed by an acknowledge bit and bytes are sent MSB first. The I²C register structure of the LMK61E0 is shown in Figure 9.

Figure 9. I²C Register Structure

The acknowledge bit (A) or non-acknowledge bit (A’) is the 9th bit attached to any 8-bit data byte and is always generated by the receiver to inform the transmitter that the byte has been received (when A = 0) or not (when A’ = 0). A = 0 is done by pulling the SDA line low during the 9th clock pulse and A’ = 0 is done by leaving the SDA line high during the 9th clock pulse.

The I²C master initiates the data transfer by asserting a start condition which initiates a response from all slave devices connected to the serial bus. Based on the 8-bit address byte sent by the master over the SDA line (consisting of the 7-bit slave address (MSB first) and an R/W’ bit), the device whose address corresponds to the transmitted address responds by sending an acknowledge bit. All other devices on the bus remain idle while the selected device waits for data transfer with the master.

After the data transfer has occurred, stop conditions are established. In write mode, the master asserts a stop condition to end data transfer during the 10th clock pulse following the acknowledge bit for the last data byte from the slave. In read mode, the master receives the last data byte from the slave but does not pull SDA low during the 9th clock pulse. This is known as a non-acknowledge bit. By receiving the non-acknowledge bit, the slave knows the data transfer is finished and enters the idle mode. The master then takes the data line low during the low period before the 10th clock pulse, and high during the 10th clock pulse to assert a stop condition. A generic transaction is shown in Figure 10.

Figure 10. Generic Programming Sequence

The LMK61E0 I²C interface supports Block Register Write/Read, Read/Write SRAM, and Read/Write EEPROM operations. For Block Register Write/Read operations, the I²C master can individually access addressed registers that are made of an 8-bit data byte. The offset of the indexed register is encoded in the register address, as described in Table 1 below.

8.5.2 Block Register Write

The I²C Block Register Write transaction is illustrated in Figure 11 and consists of the following sequence.

1. Master issues a Start Condition.
2. Master writes the 7-bit Slave Address following by a Write bit.
3. Master writes the 8-bit Register address as the CommandCode of the programming sequence.
4. Master writes one or more data bytes each of which should be acknowledged by the slave. The slave increments the internal register address after each byte.
5. Master issues a Stop Condition to terminate the transaction.

Figure 11. Block Register Write Programming Sequence

8.5.3 Block Register Read

The I²C Block Register Read transaction is illustrated in Figure 12 and consists of the following sequence.

1. Master issues a Start Condition.
2. Master writes the 7-bit Slave Address followed by a Write bit.
3. Master writes the 8-bit Register address as the CommandCode of the programming sequence.
4. Master issues a Repeated Start Condition.
5. Master writes the 7-bit Slave Address following by a Read bit.
6. Slave returns one or more data bytes as long as the Master continues to acknowledge them. The slave increments the internal register address after each byte.
7. Master issues a Stop Condition to terminate the transaction.

Figure 12. Block Register Read Programming Sequence

8.5.4 Write SRAM

The on-chip SRAM is a volatile, shadow memory array used to temporarily store register data, and is intended only for programming the non-volatile EEPROM. The SRAM has the identical data format as the EEPROM map. The register configuration data can be transferred to the SRAM array through special memory access registers in the register map. To successfully program the SRAM, the complete base array and at least one page should be written. The following details the programming sequence to transfer the device registers into the SRAM.

1. Program the device registers to match a desired setting.
2. Write a 1 to R49[6]. This ensures that the device registers are copied to the SRAM.

The SRAM can also be written with particular values according to the following programming sequence.

1. Write the SRAM address in R51.
2. Write the desired data byte in R53 in the same I²C transaction and this data byte will be written to the address specified in the step above. Any additional access that is part of the same transaction will cause the SRAM address to be incremented and a write will take place to the next SRAM address. Access to SRAM will terminate at the end of current I²C transaction.

8.5.5 Write EEPROM

The on-chip EEPROM is a non-volatile memory array used to permanently store register data for a custom device start-up configuration setting to initialize registers upon power up or POR. The EEPROM is comprised of bits shown in the EEPROM Map. The transfer must first happen to the SRAM and then to the EEPROM. During “EEPROM write”, R49[2] is a 1 and the EEPROM contents cannot be accessed. The following details the programming sequence to transfer the entire contents of SRAM to EEPROM.

1. Make sure the "Write SRAM" procedure (Write SRAM) was done to commit the register settings to the SRAM with start-up configurations intended for programming to the EEPROM.
2. Write 0xBE to R56. This provides basic protection from inadvertent programming of EEPROM.
3. Write a 1 to R49[0]. This programs the entire SRAM contents to EEPROM. Once completed, the contents in R48 will increment by 1. R48 contains the total number of EEPROM programming cycles that are successfully completed.
4. Write 0x00 to R56 to protect against inadvertent programming of EEPROM.

8.5.6 Read SRAM

The contents of the SRAM can be read out, one word at a time, starting with that of the requested address. Following details the programming sequence for an SRAM read by address.

1. Write the SRAM address in R51.
2. The SRAM data located at the address specified in the step above can be obtained by reading R53 in the same I²C transaction. Any additional access that is part of the same transaction will cause the SRAM address to be incremented and a read will take place of the next SRAM address. Access to SRAM will terminate at the end of current I²C transaction.

8.5.7 Read EEPROM

The contents of the EEPROM can be read out, one word at a time, starting with that of the requested address. Following details the programming sequence for an EEPROM read by address.

1. Write the EEPROM address in R51.
2. The EEPROM data located at the address specified in the step above can be obtained by reading R52 in the same I²C transaction. Any additional access that is part of the same transaction will cause the EEPROM address to be incremented and a read will take place of the next EEPROM address. Access to EEPROM will terminate at the end of current I²C transaction.

Table 2. EEPROM Map

Table 3. Register Map

8.6.1 Register Descriptions