Datasheet
Table Of Contents
- Features
- Applications
- General Description
- Functional Block Diagram
- Revision History
- Specifications
- Absolute Maximum Ratings
- Pin Configuration and Function Descriptions
- Typical Performance Characteristics
- Circuit Description
- Register Maps
- Register 0
- Register 1
- Register 2
- Register 3
- Register 4
- Initialization Sequence
- RF Synthesizer—A Worked Example
- Modulus
- Reference Doubler and Reference Divider
- 12-Bit Programmable Modulus
- Cycle Slip Reduction for Faster Lock Times
- Spurious Optimization and Fast lock
- Fast Lock Timer and Register Sequences
- Fast Lock—An Example
- Fast Lock—Loop Filter Topology
- Spur Mechanisms
- Spur Consistency and Fractional Spur Optimization
- Phase Resync
- Applications Information
- Outline Dimensions

ADF4150 Data Sheet
Rev. A | Page 10 of 28
Figure 10. RF Output Phase Noise RF Dividers Used; Integer-N; Low Noise
Mode; VCOOUT = 1750 MHz, REF
IN
= 100 MHz, PFD = 25 MHz, Loop Filter
Bandwidth = 50 kHz
Figure 11. RF Buffer Output Fractional-N Phase Noise and Spur Performance;
Low Noise Mode; VCOOUT = 1750 MHz, REF
IN
= 100 MHz, PFD = 25 MHz,
Loop Filter Bandwidth = 15 kHz, Channel Spacing = 200 kHz; FRAC = 1,
MOD = 5; Output Divider = 1
Figure 12. RF Buffer Output Fractional-N Phase Noise and Spur Performance;
Low Noise Mode; VCOOUT = 1750 MHz, REF
IN
= 100 MHz, PFD = 25 MHz,
Loop Filter Bandwidth = 15 kHz, Channel Spacing = 200 kHz; FRAC = 1,
MOD = 5; Output Divider = 2
Figure 13. RF Buffer Output Fractional-N Phase Noise and Spur Performance;
Low Noise Mode; VCOOUT = 1750 MHz, REF
IN
= 100 MHz, PFD = 25 MHz,
Loop Filter Bandwidth = 15 kHz, Channel Spacing = 200 kHz. FRAC = 1,
MOD = 5. Output divider = 4
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