TPC-2816 modular

THEORY OF OPERATION
The ADN2816 is a delay- and phase-locked loop circuit for
clock recovery and data retiming from an NRZ encoded data
stream. The phase of the input data signal is tracked by two
separate feedback loops that share a common control voltage. A
high speed delay-locked loop path uses a voltage controlled
phase shifter to track the high frequency components of input
jitter. A separate phase control loop, comprised of the VCO,
tracks the low frequency components of input jitter. The initial
frequency of the VCO is set by yet a third loop, which compares
the VCO frequency with the input data frequency and sets the
coarse tuning voltage. The jitter tracking phase-locked loop
(PLL) controls the VCO by the fine-tuning control.
The delay and phase loops together track the phase of the input
data signal. For example, when the clock lags input data, the
phase detector drives the VCO to a higher frequency and
increases the delay through the phase shifter; both of these
actions serve to reduce the phase error between the clock and
data. The faster clock picks up phase, while the delayed data
loses phase. Because the loop filter is an integrator, the static
phase error is driven to zero.
Another view of the circuit is that the phase shifter implements
the zero required for frequency compensation of a second-order
phase-locked loop, and this zero is placed in the feedback path
and, thus, does not appear in the closed-loop transfer function.
Jitter peaking in a conventional second-order phase-locked loop
is caused by the presence of this zero in the closed-loop transfer
function. Because this circuit has no zero in the closed-loop
transfer, jitter peaking is minimized.