Suppressing channel-dependent spurious signals in fractional-N synthesizer

摘要

A device for suppressing spurious signals generated by a fractional-N synthesizer. The fractional-N synthesizer generates an output frequency where an underlying PLL circuit uses a frequency divider for dividing the output frequency by a frequency-division ratio to obtain a comparison frequency and performs phase-comparison operations between a reference frequency and the comparison frequency to control the output frequency. The output frequency is changed by a frequency interval smaller than the reference frequency by making a temporal change to the frequency-division ratio once in every predetermined number of cycles. The device for suppressing spurious signals includes a current-generation unit which generates an electrical current proportional to a value representing an ordinal position of a current cycle in the every predetermined number of cycles, and a current-summation unit which adds the electrical current to another electric current controlling the output frequency in synchronism with the phase-comparison operations for a duration proportional to a cycle of the output frequency.