Wideband PLL RF synthesizer enables designers to easily synchronize output of all onboard PLLs

Mouser now stocks the LMX2594 wideband PLLatinum RF synthesizer from Texas Instruments. Part of their PLLatinum series, the device enables designers to easily synchronize the output of all onboard PLLs, saving design time for MIMO, beamforming, and other applications. The synthesizer is a high-performance wideband PLL RF synthesizer with an integrated VCO that can generate any frequency from 10MHz to 15GHz without using an internal frequency doubler, eliminating the need for complex onboard filters to remove subharmonics. The device features best-in-class noise performance with one of the lowest normalized PLL noise floors (at -236dBc/Hz and 1/f of -129dBc/Hz), enabling designers to improve radio sensitivity and spectral resolution. Integrated ramp generation and LDOs further simplify the design process, eliminating up to five devices typically required to perform this function. The device comes equipped with a 32-bit fractional divider that allows fine frequency selection and supports both fractional-N and integer-N modes. The device also offers 45fs RMS jitter at 7.5GHz, support for JESD204B SYSREF, phase synchronization and ramp generation to simplify high-performance microwave and millimeter-wave system design. Suitable applications for the device include 5G and millimeter-wave wireless infrastructures, test and measurement equipment, radar, MIMO, phased array antennas and beam forming, and high-speed data converter clocking applications.