Integrated single-ring system for realizing low-phase-noise microwave wide-band frequency synthesis
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of frequency synthesis, in particular to an integrated single-ring system for realizing low-phase-noise microwave wide-band frequency synthesis.
Background
At present, the development of handheld instrument products in the world is mainly to comprehensively consider and improve five aspects of miniaturization, low power consumption, heat dissipation, electromagnetic compatibility and weight of instruments while improving the technical performance index of the whole instrument, so that the integration requirement is higher and higher, and the difficulty is higher and higher. When the traditional desktop realizes the frequency synthesis of a microwave wide frequency band of 10 GHz-20 GHz, a mode of combining a frequency synthesis circuit board with a microwave module is often adopted, the volume power consumption and the weight are both large, and the requirement of an ultra-low phase noise index is met while signals of the wide frequency band are realized.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to overcome the defects in the prior art and provides an integrated single-loop system for realizing frequency synthesis of a low-phase-noise microwave broadband frequency band.
In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides an integrated single-loop system for realizing frequency synthesis of low-phase-noise microwave broadband, comprising:
the VCO is used for generating a microwave signal with a wide frequency band of 10 GHz-20 GHz and transmitting the signal to the power divider;
the power divider transmits the microwave signal input by the VCO to an external feedback frequency divider and a phase-locked loop output frequency division channel respectively;
the external feedback frequency divider divides the frequency of the microwave signal input by the power divider by four, and inputs the generated feedback signal of 2.5 GHz-5 GHz into the integrated fractional frequency divider;
integrating a decimal frequency divider, carrying out built-in fractional frequency division on a feedback signal input by the external feedback frequency divider, and inputting a generated 45MHz feedback signal into the integrated phase discriminator;
the integrated phase discriminator is used for carrying out built-in frequency division and 2 division on a 90MHz reference clock input signal to obtain a 45MHz reference clock signal, comparing the reference clock signal with a feedback signal input by the integrated fractional frequency divider, and outputting a phase discrimination current to an active loop filter through a charge pump;
the active loop filter is connected with the VCO, filters a loop error signal and provides a certain gain at the same time, so that the control voltage of the VCO is adjusted to a proper range;
the method comprises the following steps that a path frequency divider controls the frequency dividing ratio to be 1/2/4/8 through a control signal generated by an FPGA, microwave signals input by the power divider are divided into frequency to form wide-band signals of 1.25 GHz-20 GHz, and the signals are input to an amplitude adjusting device;
and the amplitude adjusting device is used for adjusting the amplitude of the wide-frequency-band signal input by the path frequency divider so as to ensure that the wide-frequency-band signal has better power flatness.
In the above technical solution, a feedback amplifier is connected between the power divider and the external feedback frequency divider, a pass amplifier is connected between the power divider and the pass frequency divider, the feedback amplifier is used to improve output power, to push the external feedback frequency divider behind to normally operate, to increase isolation between the pass frequency divider and the external feedback frequency divider, and the pass amplifier is used to improve output power, to push the pass frequency divider behind to normally operate, to increase isolation between the pass frequency divider and the external feedback frequency divider.
In the technical scheme, the feedback amplifier and the channel amplifier adopt amplifiers with small integrated package, wide frequency band, low noise and low power consumption.
In the above technical solution, the active loop filter employs a rail-to-rail output type low noise operational amplifier.
In the above technical solution, the amplitude adjusting apparatus uses the FPGA to send data related to amplitude adjustment to enter a 16-bit DAC for D/a conversion, converts a digital signal into an analog signal, and controls a control circuit composed of two stages of operational amplifiers to control the attenuation of the output amplitude and the matching of the input and output impedances.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects and advantages:
the integrated single-ring system for realizing the frequency synthesis of the low-phase-noise microwave broadband frequency band can realize the frequency synthesis of up to 20GHz on a very small printed board, can achieve the phase noise which can be achieved only in a multi-ring mode by adopting single-ring mode phase locking, has good output flatness by an amplitude adjusting device, has the characteristics of high performance index, small volume, low power consumption, light weight, low price and the like on the printed board, and meets the development requirement of a handheld instrument.
Drawings
Fig. 1 is a block diagram of an integrated single-loop system for implementing low-phase-noise microwave broadband frequency synthesis according to the present invention.
The numbering in the figures illustrates: 1. a VCO; 2. a power divider; 3. a pass amplifier; 4. a feedback amplifier; 5. an external feedback frequency divider; 6. an integrated fractional frequency divider; 7. integrating a phase discriminator; 8. an active loop filter; 9. a path divider; 10. an amplitude adjustment device.
Detailed Description
The invention is described in further detail below with reference to the following figures and specific examples:
in this embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, the integrated single-loop system for implementing frequency synthesis of a low-phase-noise microwave broadband according to the present invention includes:
the VCO1 is used for generating a microwave signal with a wide frequency band of 10 GHz-20 GHz and transmitting the signal to the power divider 2;
the power divider 2 transmits the received microwave signals to the external feedback frequency divider 5 and the phase-locked loop output frequency division channel respectively;
the external feedback frequency divider 5 divides the frequency of the microwave signal by four, and inputs the generated feedback signal of 2.5 GHz-5 GHz into the integrated fractional frequency divider 6;
integrating a decimal frequency divider 6, carrying out built-in decimal frequency division on the feedback signal, and inputting the generated 45MHz feedback signal into an integrated phase discriminator 7;
integrating a phase discriminator 7, performing built-in frequency division and 2 division on a 90MHz reference clock input signal to obtain a 45MHz reference clock signal, comparing the reference clock signal with a feedback signal, and outputting a phase discrimination current to an active loop filter 8 through a charge pump;
an active loop filter 8 for providing a certain gain while filtering the loop error signal, thereby adjusting the control voltage of the VCO1 to a suitable range;
the channel frequency divider 9 controls the frequency dividing ratio to 1/2/4/8 through a control signal generated by the FPGA, divides the frequency of the microwave signal input by the power divider 2 into a wide-frequency-band signal of 1.25 GHz-20 GHz, and inputs the wide-frequency-band signal into the amplitude adjusting device 10;
the amplitude adjusting device 10 is used for adjusting the amplitude of the wide-band signal of 1.25 GHz-20 GHz, so that the wide-band signal has better power flatness.
A feedback amplifier 4 is connected between the power divider 2 and the external feedback frequency divider 5, the feedback amplifier 4 is used for improving the output power, pushing the external feedback frequency divider 5 behind to normally work, and increasing the isolation between the channel frequency divider 9 and the external feedback frequency divider 5.
The channel amplifier 3 is connected between the power divider 2 and the channel frequency divider 9, and the channel amplifier 3 is used for improving the output power, pushing the following channel frequency divider 9 to work normally, and increasing the isolation between the channel frequency divider 9 and the external feedback frequency divider 5.
The feedback amplifier 4 and the path amplifier 3 adopt integrated small-package, broadband, low-noise and low-power-consumption amplifiers.
The active loop filter 8 employs a low noise operational amplifier of a rail-to-rail output type.
The amplitude adjustment device 10 uses the FPGA to send data about amplitude adjustment into a 16-bit DAC, performs D/a conversion, converts a digital signal into an analog signal, and controls a control circuit composed of two stages of operational amplifiers to control the attenuation amount of the output amplitude and the input/output impedance matching.
The working principle of the integrated single-ring system for realizing the frequency synthesis of the low-phase-noise microwave broadband frequency band is as follows:
the VCO1 oscillates to generate a 10 GHz-20 GHz broadband microwave signal, the signal is transmitted to the power divider 2, the power is divided into two paths of signals, one path of signal is transmitted to the phase-locked loop, the gain is improved through the feedback amplifier 4, the external feedback frequency divider 5 is pushed to divide four frequencies, a 2.5 GHz-5 GHz feedback signal is generated and enters the integrated fractional frequency divider 6 to divide a decimal frequency, the decimal frequency division generates a 45MHz feedback signal and enters the integrated phase discriminator 7, the integrated phase discriminator 7 internally divides a 90MHz reference clock signal by 2 to obtain a 45MHz reference signal and then compares the 45MHz reference signal with the feedback signal, a phase discrimination current is output to the active loop filter 8 through the charge pump, and the control voltage of the VCO1 is adjusted through filtering and amplification, so that the oscillation of the VCO1 is controlled; the other path of signal after power division is transmitted to the access amplifier 3 for amplification, and then is subjected to 1/2/4/8 frequency division by the access frequency divider 9, the frequency division of the 10 GHz-20 GHz signal is changed into a wide-frequency-band signal of 1.25 GHz-20 GHz, the wide-frequency-band signal is input to the amplitude adjusting device 10, and the FPGA controls the amplitude adjusting device 10 to improve the power flatness.