APPLICATION INFORMATION
Initial Calibration and Frequency Setup at Power Up
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The integrated high performance VCO requires an internal frequency calibration at power up. To perform such
calibration the following procedure is recommended:
Apply 5V power supply to IC.
Apply an input reference frequency to pin (38) and ensure the signal is stable.
Turn on the TRF3761 using the chip enable pin (CHIP_EN, pin 2), by applying 5V.
Register 1
Setup the device through Register 1 referencing
Table 1.a. The first 4 bits of the 32-bit code sent to the chip are set DB <3:0> to 0000; which is the address of
register 1.
b. Bit 5, DB4, sets the soft reset for the chip. Soft reset allows for the registers to be reset without powering
down the chip. If a soft reset is used then write to register 1 twice: once with DB4 set high and once with
DB4 set low. Typically, this bit is only used when the chip has been powered up and registers 1, 2, and 3
have already been written to, so on power-up reset is not required, so DB4 is, by default, set low.
c. DB <7: 5> sets the charge pump current based on the resistor value on pin 28 of the TRF3761 and the
N = decimal value of [Reg1 DB<7:5>].
d. DB <9: 8> sets the mode of the chip. The mode is how the device will or will not divide down the VCO’s
frequency. There are 3 choices for the mode setting, divide by 1, 2 or 4 per
Table 1. For example, if
393.75MHz is required from the TRF3761 which has a main frequency of 1575MHz then the divide-by-4
mode is chosen by setting DB <9: 8> to 10.
e. DB <11:10> controls the output buffer. Both of these are set to 00 by default, so the buffer is controlled
internally. See
Table 1 for more information.
f.
DB <25:12> sets the RDiv value. Once the calculations under the Synthesizing a Selected Frequency
section have been completed the value is known, based on the external reference oscillator. The value
for R is entered into the DB <25:12>. For example, if the reference oscillator is at a frequency (FREF_IN) of
61.44MHz and a channel step size of 120kHz is required, which is also the frequency (FPFD) the phase
frequency detector will use to compare against the VCO's output frequency (FOUT), then FREF_IN /FPFD =
512, which is entered as follows: MSB: LSB 0001000000000.
g. By default, DB <27:26> are set to 00 for a 1.5ns delay on the anti-backlash pulse width. See
Table 1 for
more information.
h. DB 28 is set to 1 for positive by default. See
Table 1 for more information.
i.
DB 29 is set to 0 for normal operation. See
Table 1 for more information.
j.
DB 30 is set to 0 by default. See
Table 1 for more information.
k. DB 31 is set to 0 by default. See
Table 1 for more information.
Register 2
Initiate calibration procedure by programming register 2 as follows: Reference
Table 2a. The first 4 bits of the 32-bit code sent to the chip are set DB <3:0> to 0001; which is the address of
register 2.
b. Use bits DB<17, 4> of register 2 to specify the input reference frequency in MHz. The value is split into
an integer and a fraction part. For example: to insert a fREF of 30.72MHz, set:
–
DB<10, 4> (integer part) equal to 0011110 (30) and
–
DB<17, 11> (fraction part) equal to 1001000 (72).
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