8442AY

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REV. C JULY 8, 2004

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ICS8442

cific default state that will automatically occur during power-

up. The TEST output is LOW when operating 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 frequency

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 contents of the

shift register are loaded into the M divider and N output di-

vider 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 determine 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 In-

put 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 input

modes to program the M divider and N output divider. The two

input operational modes are parallel and serial.

Figure 1 shows

the timing diagram for each mode. In parallel mode, the

nP_LOAD input is initially LOW. The data on inputs M0 through

M8 and N0 and N1 is passed directly to the M divider and

N output divider. On the LOW-to-HIGH transition 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 output divider to a spe-

fVCO = fxtal x M

T1

T0

TEST Output

0

0

LOW

0

1

S_Data, Shift Register Input

1

0

Output of M divider

1

1

CMOS FOUT

Time

M, N

t

S

t

H

t

S

t

H

t

S

S_CLOCK

S_DATA

S_LOAD

nP_LOAD

M0:M8, N0:N1

nP_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

N

N