ICS8442AY REVISION F OCTOBER 22, 2013 2©2013 Integrated Device Technology, Inc.
ICS8442 Data Sheet 700MHz, CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR-TO-DIFFERENTIAL LVDS FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER
put divider to a specific default state that will automatically
occur during power-up. The TEST output is LOW when op-
erating in the parallel input mode. The relationship between
the VCO frequency, the crystal frequency and the M divider
is defined as follows:
The M value and the required values of M0 through M8 are
shown in Table 3B, Programmable VCO Frequency Function
Table. Valid M values for which the PLL will achieve lock for
a 25MHz reference are defined as 10 ≤ M ≤ 28. The fre-
quency out is defined as follows:
Serial operation occurs when nP_LOAD is HIGH and
S_LOAD is LOW. The shift register is loaded by sampling
the S_DATA bits with the rising edge of S_CLOCK. The con-
tents of the shift register are loaded into the M divider and N
output divider when S_LOAD transitions from LOW-to-HIGH.
The M divide and N output divide values are latched on the
HIGH-to-LOW transition of S_LOAD. If S_LOAD is held HIGH,
data at the S_DATA input is passed directly to the M divider
and N output divider on each rising edge of S_CLOCK. The
serial mode can be used to program the M and N bits and
test bits T1 and T0. The internal registers T0 and T1 deter-
mine the state of the TEST output as follows:
NOTE: The functional description that follows describes op-
eration using a 25MHz crystal. Valid PLL loop divider values
for different crystal or input frequencies are defined in the
Input Frequency Characteristics, Table 5, NOTE 1.
The ICS8442 features a fully integrated PLL and therefore
requires no external components for setting the loop band-
width. A fundamental crystal is used as the input to the on-
chip oscillator. The output of the oscillator is fed into the phase
detector. A 25MHz crystal provides a 25MHz phase detector
reference frequency. The VCO of the PLL operates over a
range of 250MHz to 700MHz. The output of the M divider is
also applied to the phase detector.
The phase detector and the M divider force the VCO output fre-
quency to be M times the reference frequency by adjusting the
VCO control voltage. Note that for some values of M (either too
high or too low), the PLL will not achieve lock. The output of the
VCO is scaled by a divider prior to being sent to each of the
LVDS output buffers. The divider provides a 50% output duty cycle.
The programmable features of the ICS8442 support two in-
put modes to program the M divider and N output divider.
The two input operational modes are parallel and serial.
Fig-
ure 1
shows the timing diagram for each mode. In parallel
mode, the nP_LOAD input is initially LOW. The data on in-
puts M0 through M8 and N0 and N1 is passed directly to the
M divider and N output divider. On the LOW-to-HIGH transi-
tion of the nP_LOAD input, the data is latched and the M
divider remains loaded until the next LOW transition on
nP_LOAD or until a serial event occurs. As a result, the M
and N bits can be hardwired to set the M divider and N out-
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
fVCO = fxtal x M
T1 T0 TEST Output
00 LOW
0 1 S_Data, Shift Register Input
1 0 Output of M divider
1 1 CMOS FOUT
FIGURE 1. PARALLEL & SERIAL LOAD OPERATIONS
Time
SERIAL LOADING
PARALLEL LOADING
t
S
t
H
t
S
t
H
t
S
M, N
S_CLOCK
S_DATA
S_LOAD
nP_LOAD
M0:M8, N0:N1
nP_LOAD
S_LOAD
*NOTE: The NULL timing slot must be observed.
T1 T0
*
NULL
N1 N0 M8 M7 M6 M5 M4 M3 M2 M1 M0
FOUT = fVCO = fxtal x M
NN