Radiation hardening (electronics)

A 19.5-GHz Radiation-Hardened Sub-Sampled PLL With Quad-Core VCO in 16-nm FinFET Achieving Sub-50 fs Jitter

A 19.5-GHz Radiation-Hardened Sub-Sampled PLL With Quad-Core VCO in 16-nm FinFET Achieving Sub-50 fs Jitter 150 150

Abstract:

This letter presents a radiation-hardened (rad-hard) subsampled phase-locked loop (SS-PLL) that achieves state-of-the-art jitter performance while incorporating radiation-hardened techniques to mitigate single-event-upsets (SEUs) present in the space environment. Furthermore, rad-hard techniques are incorporated in each core PLL subblock which include a rad-hard charge-pump Gm cell, a pulser circuit with triple …

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