chilchil
Newbie level 2
Hi,
Could anyone please help me.
I am trying to work out the overall phase noise of a local oscillator for a radio frequency receiver design. I have a 10MHz TCXO with certain phase noise characteristics/specification. Then the output of this TCXO is fed into a PLL clock synthesizer to generate another frequency of 26MHz. The PLL clock synthesizer also has certain phase noise characteristics at 26MHz. Then this 26MHz frequency will be fed into another VCO to generate an RF frequency, say 2350MHz to feed a mixer for the signal down-conversion, which again has certain phase noise characteristics at that frequency.
My question is how do I determine the overall phase noise for the LO @2350MHz? Do I just use the phase noise characteristics of that VCO @2350MHz or do I also need to cascade the phase noise from both the TCXO and the PLL clock synthesizer?
Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
chilchil
Could anyone please help me.
I am trying to work out the overall phase noise of a local oscillator for a radio frequency receiver design. I have a 10MHz TCXO with certain phase noise characteristics/specification. Then the output of this TCXO is fed into a PLL clock synthesizer to generate another frequency of 26MHz. The PLL clock synthesizer also has certain phase noise characteristics at 26MHz. Then this 26MHz frequency will be fed into another VCO to generate an RF frequency, say 2350MHz to feed a mixer for the signal down-conversion, which again has certain phase noise characteristics at that frequency.
My question is how do I determine the overall phase noise for the LO @2350MHz? Do I just use the phase noise characteristics of that VCO @2350MHz or do I also need to cascade the phase noise from both the TCXO and the PLL clock synthesizer?
Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
chilchil