Phase-locked loop, the Glossary

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1. 131 relations: Active filter, Analog multiplier, Analogue electronics, Arnold tongue, Atomic clock, Atomic force microscopy, Bipolar junction transistor, Bode plot, Carrier recovery, Charge pump, Charge-pump phase-locked loop, Christiaan Huygens, Clock, Clock recovery, Clock signal, CMOS, Computer, Conjugate transpose, Control system, Control theory, Costas loop, CPU multiplier, Crystal oscillator, Damping factor, David Robertson (engineer), DC motor, Delay-locked loop, Demodulation, Derivative, Digital down converter, Digital signal processing, Digital-to-analog converter, Direct current, Direct digital synthesis, Direct-conversion receiver, Disk storage, Dynamical system, Edward Victor Appleton, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Electric battery, Electromechanics, Electronic circuit, Emitter-coupled logic, Federal Communications Commission, Feedback, Flip-flop (electronics), FM broadcasting, Frequency divider, Frequency mixer, Frequency modulation, ... Expand index (81 more) »

Active filter

An active filter is a type of analog circuit implementing an electronic filter using active components, typically an amplifier.

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Analog multiplier

In electronics, an analog multiplier is a device that takes two analog signals and produces an output which is their product.

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Analogue electronics

Analogue electronics (analog electronics) are electronic systems with a continuously variable signal, in contrast to digital electronics where signals usually take only two levels.

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Arnold tongue

In mathematics, particularly in dynamical systems, Arnold tongues (named after Vladimir Arnold) Section 12 in page 78 has a figure showing Arnold tongues.

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Atomic clock

An atomic clock is a clock that measures time by monitoring the resonant frequency of atoms.

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Atomic force microscopy

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) or scanning force microscopy (SFM) is a very-high-resolution type of scanning probe microscopy (SPM), with demonstrated resolution on the order of fractions of a nanometer, more than 1000 times better than the optical diffraction limit.

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Bipolar junction transistor

A bipolar junction transistor (BJT) is a type of transistor that uses both electrons and electron holes as charge carriers.

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Bode plot

In electrical engineering and control theory, a Bode plot is a graph of the frequency response of a system.

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Carrier recovery

A carrier recovery system is a circuit used to estimate and compensate for frequency and phase differences between a received signal's carrier wave and the receiver's local oscillator for the purpose of coherent demodulation. Phase-locked loop and carrier recovery are communication circuits and electronic oscillators.

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Charge pump

A charge pump is a kind of DC-to-DC converter that uses capacitors for energetic charge storage to raise or lower voltage.

See Phase-locked loop and Charge pump

Charge-pump phase-locked loop

Charge-pump phase-locked loop (CP-PLL) is a modification of phase-locked loops with phase-frequency detectors and square waveform signals.

See Phase-locked loop and Charge-pump phase-locked loop

Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem, (also spelled Huyghens; Hugenius; 14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.

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Clock

A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time.

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Clock recovery

In serial communication of digital data, clock recovery is the process of extracting timing information from a serial data stream itself, allowing the timing of the data in the stream to be accurately determined without separate clock information.

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Clock signal

In electronics and especially synchronous digital circuits, a clock signal (historically also known as logic beat) is an electronic logic signal (voltage or current) which oscillates between a high and a low state at a constant frequency and is used like a metronome to synchronize actions of digital circuits.

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CMOS

Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS, pronounced "sea-moss") is a type of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) fabrication process that uses complementary and symmetrical pairs of p-type and n-type MOSFETs for logic functions. Phase-locked loop and CMOS are electronic design.

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Computer

A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation).

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Conjugate transpose

In mathematics, the conjugate transpose, also known as the Hermitian transpose, of an m \times n complex matrix \mathbf is an n \times m matrix obtained by transposing \mathbf and applying complex conjugation to each entry (the complex conjugate of a+ib being a-ib, for real numbers a and b).

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Control system

A control system manages, commands, directs, or regulates the behavior of other devices or systems using control loops.

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Control theory

Control theory is a field of control engineering and applied mathematics that deals with the control of dynamical systems in engineered processes and machines.

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Costas loop

A Costas loop is a phase-locked loop (PLL) based circuit which is used for carrier frequency recovery from suppressed-carrier modulation signals (e.g. double-sideband suppressed carrier signals) and phase modulation signals (e.g. BPSK, QPSK). Phase-locked loop and Costas loop are communication circuits and electronic oscillators.

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CPU multiplier

In computing, the clock multiplier (or CPU multiplier or bus/core ratio) sets the ratio of an internal CPU clock rate to the externally supplied clock.

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Crystal oscillator

A crystal oscillator is an electronic oscillator circuit that uses a piezoelectric crystal as a frequency-selective element. Phase-locked loop and crystal oscillator are electronic oscillators.

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Damping factor

In an audio system, the damping factor is defined as the ratio of the rated impedance of the loudspeaker (usually assumed to be) to the source impedance of the power amplifier.

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David Robertson (engineer)

David Robertson (1875 – 1941) was the first Professor of Electrical Engineering at Bristol University.

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DC motor

A DC motor is an electrical motor that uses direct current (DC) to produce mechanical force.

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Delay-locked loop

In electronics, a delay-locked loop (DLL) is a pseudo-digital circuit similar to a phase-locked loop (PLL), with the main difference being the absence of an internal voltage-controlled oscillator, replaced by a delay line. Phase-locked loop and delay-locked loop are electronic design and electronic oscillators.

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Demodulation

Demodulation is extracting the original information-bearing signal from a carrier wave. Phase-locked loop and Demodulation are communication circuits and radio electronics.

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Derivative

The derivative is a fundamental tool of calculus that quantifies the sensitivity of change of a function's output with respect to its input.

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Digital down converter

In digital signal processing, a digital down-converter (DDC) converts a digitized, band-limited signal to a lower frequency signal at a lower sampling rate in order to simplify the subsequent radio stages.

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Digital signal processing

Digital signal processing (DSP) is the use of digital processing, such as by computers or more specialized digital signal processors, to perform a wide variety of signal processing operations.

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Digital-to-analog converter

In electronics, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC, D/A, D2A, or D-to-A) is a system that converts a digital signal into an analog signal.

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Direct current

Direct current (DC) is one-directional flow of electric charge.

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Direct digital synthesis

Direct digital synthesis (DDS) is a method employed by frequency synthesizers used for creating arbitrary waveforms from a single, fixed-frequency reference clock. Phase-locked loop and Direct digital synthesis are electronic oscillators.

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Direct-conversion receiver

A direct-conversion receiver (DCR), also known as homodyne, synchrodyne, or zero-IF receiver, is a radio receiver design that demodulates the incoming radio signal using synchronous detection driven by a local oscillator whose frequency is identical to, or very close to the carrier frequency of the intended signal. Phase-locked loop and direct-conversion receiver are radio electronics.

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Disk storage

Disk storage (also sometimes called drive storage) is a data storage mechanism based on a rotating disk.

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Dynamical system

In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a function describes the time dependence of a point in an ambient space, such as in a parametric curve.

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Edward Victor Appleton

Sir Edward Victor Appleton (6 September 1892 – 21 April 1965) was an English physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1947) and pioneer in radiophysics.

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Edwin Howard Armstrong

Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – February 1, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor, who developed FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. Phase-locked loop and Edwin Howard Armstrong are radio electronics.

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Electric battery

An electric battery is a source of electric power consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections for powering electrical devices.

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Electromechanics

In engineering, electromechanics combines processes and procedures drawn from electrical engineering and mechanical engineering.

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Electronic circuit

An electronic circuit is composed of individual electronic components, such as resistors, transistors, capacitors, inductors and diodes, connected by conductive wires or traces through which electric current can flow.

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Emitter-coupled logic

In electronics, emitter-coupled logic (ECL) is a high-speed integrated circuit bipolar transistor logic family.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.

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Feedback

Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop.

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Flip-flop (electronics)

In electronics, flip-flops and latches are circuits that have two stable states that can store state information – a bistable multivibrator.

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FM broadcasting

FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation (FM) of the radio broadcast carrier wave.

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Frequency divider

A frequency divider, also called a clock divider or scaler or prescaler, is a circuit that takes an input signal of a frequency, f_, and generates an output signal of a frequency: f_.

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Frequency mixer

In electronics, a mixer, or frequency mixer, is an electrical circuit that creates new frequencies from two signals applied to it. Phase-locked loop and frequency mixer are communication circuits and radio electronics.

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Frequency modulation

Frequency modulation (FM) is the encoding of information in a carrier wave by varying the instantaneous frequency of the wave.

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Frequency multiplier

In electronics, a frequency multiplier is an electronic circuit that generates an output signal and that output frequency is a harmonic (multiple) of its input frequency. Phase-locked loop and frequency multiplier are communication circuits.

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Frequency synthesizer

A frequency synthesizer is an electronic circuit that generates a range of frequencies from a single reference frequency. Phase-locked loop and frequency synthesizer are communication circuits and electronic oscillators.

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Frequency-locked loop

A frequency-lock, or frequency-locked loop (FLL), is an electronic control system that generates a signal that is locked to the frequency of an input or "reference" signal. Phase-locked loop and frequency-locked loop are electronic design.

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Frequency-shift keying

Frequency-shift keying (FSK) is a frequency modulation scheme in which digital information is encoded on a carrier signal by periodically shifting the frequency of the carrier between several discrete frequencies.

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Grid-tie inverter

A grid-tie inverter converts direct current (DC) into an alternating current (AC) suitable for injecting into an electrical power grid, at the same voltage and frequency of that power grid.

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Harmonic oscillator

In classical mechanics, a harmonic oscillator is a system that, when displaced from its equilibrium position, experiences a restoring force F proportional to the displacement x: \vec F.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.

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High-pass filter

A high-pass filter (HPF) is an electronic filter that passes signals with a frequency higher than a certain cutoff frequency and attenuates signals with frequencies lower than the cutoff frequency.

See Phase-locked loop and High-pass filter

Homodyne detection

In electrical engineering, homodyne detection is a method of extracting information encoded as modulation of the phase and/or frequency of an oscillating signal, by comparing that signal with a standard oscillation that would be identical to the signal if it carried null information.

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Hydrothermal synthesis

Hydrothermal synthesis includes the various techniques of crystallizing substances from high-temperature aqueous solutions at high vapor pressures; also termed "hydrothermal method".

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IEEE Xplore

IEEE Xplore (stylized as IEEE Xplore) digital library is a research database for discovery and access to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical standards, and related materials on computer science, electrical engineering and electronics, and allied fields.

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Injection locking

Injection locking and injection pulling are the frequency effects that can occur when a harmonic oscillator is disturbed by a second oscillator operating at a nearby frequency. Phase-locked loop and injection locking are electronic oscillators.

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Integral

In mathematics, an integral is the continuous analog of a sum, which is used to calculate areas, volumes, and their generalizations.

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Integrated circuit

An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip, computer chip, or simply chip, is a small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors.

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Jitter

In electronics and telecommunications, jitter is the deviation from true periodicity of a presumably periodic signal, often in relation to a reference clock signal.

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John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was a British mathematician and physicist who made extensive contributions to science.

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Kalman filter

For statistics and control theory, Kalman filtering, also known as linear quadratic estimation, is an algorithm that uses a series of measurements observed over time, including statistical noise and other inaccuracies, and produces estimates of unknown variables that tend to be more accurate than those based on a single measurement alone, by estimating a joint probability distribution over the variables for each timeframe.

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Laplace transform

In mathematics, the Laplace transform, named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, is an integral transform that converts a function of a real variable (usually t, in the time domain) to a function of a complex variable s (in the complex-valued frequency domain, also known as s-domain, or s-plane).

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Line code

In telecommunication, a line code is a pattern of voltage, current, or photons used to represent digital data transmitted down a communication channel or written to a storage medium.

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List of 4000-series integrated circuits

The following is a list of CMOS 4000-series digital logic integrated circuits. Phase-locked loop and list of 4000-series integrated circuits are electronic design.

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Local oscillator

In electronics, a local oscillator (LO) is an electronic oscillator used with a mixer to change the frequency of a signal. Phase-locked loop and local oscillator are electronic oscillators and radio electronics.

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Lock-in amplifier

A lock-in amplifier is a type of amplifier that can extract a signal with a known carrier wave from an extremely noisy environment.

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Low-pass filter

A low-pass filter is a filter that passes signals with a frequency lower than a selected cutoff frequency and attenuates signals with frequencies higher than the cutoff frequency.

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Microprocessor

A microprocessor is a computer processor for which the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit (IC), or a small number of ICs.

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Modem

A modulator-demodulator or most commonly referred to as modem is a computer hardware device that converts data from a digital format into a format suitable for an analog transmission medium such as telephone or radio.

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Motor controller

A motor controller is a device or group of devices that can coordinate in a predetermined manner the performance of an electric motor.

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National Semiconductor

National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer which specialized in analog devices and subsystems, formerly with headquarters in Santa Clara, California.

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Negative feedback

Negative feedback (or balancing feedback) occurs when some function of the output of a system, process, or mechanism is fed back in a manner that tends to reduce the fluctuations in the output, whether caused by changes in the input or by other disturbances.

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NIST-F2

NIST-F2 is a caesium fountain atomic clock that, along with NIST-F1, serves as the United States' primary time and frequency standard.

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Noise gate

A noise gate or simply gate is an electronic device or software that is used to control the volume of an audio signal.

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Numerically controlled oscillator

A numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) is a digital signal generator which creates a synchronous (i.e., clocked), discrete-time, discrete-valued representation of a waveform, usually sinusoidal. Phase-locked loop and numerically controlled oscillator are electronic oscillators.

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Nyquist stability criterion

In control theory and stability theory, the Nyquist stability criterion or Strecker–Nyquist stability criterion, independently discovered by the German electrical engineer at Siemens in 1930 and the Swedish-American electrical engineer Harry Nyquist at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1932, is a graphical technique for determining the stability of a dynamical system.

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Passivity (engineering)

Passivity is a property of engineering systems, most commonly encountered in analog electronics and control systems.

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Pendulum clock

A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element.

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Phase (waves)

In physics and mathematics, the phase (symbol φ or ϕ) of a wave or other periodic function F of some real variable t (such as time) is an angle-like quantity representing the fraction of the cycle covered up to t. It is expressed in such a scale that it varies by one full turn as the variable t goes through each period (and F(t) goes through each complete cycle).

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Phase detector

A phase detector or phase comparator is a frequency mixer, analog multiplier or logic circuit that generates a signal which represents the difference in phase between two signal inputs. Phase-locked loop and phase detector are communication circuits.

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Phase detector characteristic

A phase detector characteristic is a function of phase difference describing the output of the phase detector.

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Phase margin

In electronic amplifiers, the phase margin (PM) is the difference between the phase lag (\mathrm.

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Phase noise

In signal processing, phase noise is the frequency-domain representation of random fluctuations in the phase of a waveform, corresponding to time-domain deviations from perfect periodicity (jitter).

See Phase-locked loop and Phase noise

Phase-locked loop range

The terms hold-in range, pull-in range (acquisition range), and lock-in range are widely used by engineers for the concepts of frequency deviation ranges within which phase-locked loop-based circuits can achieve lock under various additional conditions. Phase-locked loop and phase-locked loop range are communication circuits, electronic design, electronic oscillators and radio electronics.

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Photovoltaics

Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry.

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PLL multibit

A PLL multibit or multibit PLL is a phase-locked loop (PLL) which achieves improved performance compared to a unibit PLL by using more bits. Phase-locked loop and PLL multibit are communication circuits and radio electronics.

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Power supply rejection ratio

In electronic systems, power supply rejection ratio (PSRR), also supply-voltage rejection ratio (kSVR; SVR), is a term widely used to describe the capability of an electronic circuit to suppress any power supply variations to its output signal.

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Proportional–integral–derivative controller

A proportional–integral–derivative controller (PID controller or three-term controller) is a control loop mechanism employing feedback that is widely used in industrial control systems and a variety of other applications requiring continuously modulated control.

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Pulse-swallowing counter

A pulse-swallowing counter is a component in an all-digital feedback system.

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Radian

The radian, denoted by the symbol rad, is the unit of angle in the International System of Units (SI) and is the standard unit of angular measure used in many areas of mathematics.

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Radio

Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves.

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Rational number

In mathematics, a rational number is a number that can be expressed as the quotient or fraction of two integers, a numerator and a non-zero denominator.

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RC circuit

A resistor–capacitor circuit (RC circuit), or RC filter or RC network, is an electric circuit composed of resistors and capacitors.

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RCA

The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America.

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Relay logic

Relay logic is a method of implementing combinational logic in electrical control circuits by using several electrical relays wired in a particular configuration.

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Remote control

In electronics, a remote control (also known as a remote or clicker) is an electronic device used to operate another device from a distance, usually wirelessly.

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Royal Observatory, Greenwich

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG; known as the Old Royal Observatory from 1957 to 1998, when the working Royal Greenwich Observatory, RGO, temporarily moved south from Greenwich to Herstmonceux) is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park in south east London, overlooking the River Thames to the north.

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Sampling (signal processing)

In signal processing, sampling is the reduction of a continuous-time signal to a discrete-time signal.

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Second

The second (symbol: s) is the unit of time in the International System of Units (SI), historically defined as of a day – this factor derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes and finally to 60 seconds each (24 × 60 × 60.

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Self-synchronizing code

In coding theory, especially in telecommunications, a self-synchronizing code is a uniquely decodable code in which the symbol stream formed by a portion of one code word, or by the overlapped portion of any two adjacent code words, is not a valid code word.

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Settling time

In control theory the settling time of a dynamical system such as an amplifier or other output device is the time elapsed from the application of an ideal instantaneous step input to the time at which the amplifier output has entered and remained within a specified error band.

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Shortt–Synchronome clock

The Shortt–Synchronome free pendulum clock is a complex precision electromechanical pendulum clock invented in 1921 by British railway engineer William Hamilton Shortt in collaboration with horologist Frank Hope-Jones, and manufactured by the Synchronome Company, Ltd., of London.

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Signal

Signal refers to both the process and the result of transmission of data over some media accomplished by embedding some variation.

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Signal edge

In electronics, a signal edge is a transition of a digital signal from low to high or from high to low.

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Signetics

Signetics Corporation was an American electronics manufacturer specifically established to make integrated circuits.

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Step recovery diode

In electronics, a step recovery diode (SRD, snap-off diode or charge-storage diode or memory varactor) is a semiconductor junction diode with the ability to generate extremely short pulses.

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Superheterodyne receiver

A superheterodyne receiver, often shortened to superhet, is a type of radio receiver that uses frequency mixing to convert a received signal to a fixed intermediate frequency (IF) which can be more conveniently processed than the original carrier frequency. Phase-locked loop and superheterodyne receiver are communication circuits, electronic design and radio electronics.

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Synchronization

Synchronization is the coordination of events to operate a system in unison.

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Telecommunications

Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information with an immediacy comparable to face-to-face communication.

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Telegraphy

Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message.

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Time

Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future.

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Transfer function

In engineering, a transfer function (also known as system function or network function) of a system, sub-system, or component is a mathematical function that models the system's output for each possible input.

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Transistor

A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power.

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Transistor–transistor logic

Transistor–transistor logic (TTL) is a logic family built from bipolar junction transistors.

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Tuning fork

A tuning fork is an acoustic resonator in the form of a two-pronged fork with the prongs (''tines'') formed from a U-shaped bar of elastic metal (usually steel).

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Variable-frequency oscillator

A variable frequency oscillator (VFO) in electronics is an oscillator whose frequency can be tuned (i.e., varied) over some range. Phase-locked loop and variable-frequency oscillator are communication circuits, electronic design, electronic oscillators and radio electronics.

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Video

Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media.

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Volt

The volt (symbol: V) is the unit of electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force in the International System of Units (SI).

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Voltage-controlled oscillator

A voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is an electronic oscillator whose oscillation frequency is controlled by a voltage input. Phase-locked loop and voltage-controlled oscillator are electronic design, electronic oscillators and radio electronics.

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Waveform

In electronics, acoustics, and related fields, the waveform of a signal is the shape of its graph as a function of time, independent of its time and magnitude scales and of any displacement in time.

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William Eccles (physicist)

William Henry Eccles FRS (23 August 1875 – 29 April 1966) was a British physicist and a pioneer in the development of radio communication.

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William F. Egan

William F. Egan (1936 – December 16, 2012) was well-known expert and author in the area of PLLs.

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Wills Memorial Building

The Wills Memorial Building (also known as the Wills Memorial Tower or simply the Wills Tower) is a neo-Gothic building in Bristol, England, designed by Sir George Oatley and built as a memorial to Henry Overton Wills III by his sons George and Henry Wills.

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XOR gate

XOR gate (sometimes EOR, or EXOR and pronounced as Exclusive OR) is a digital logic gate that gives a true (1 or HIGH) output when the number of true inputs is odd.

See Phase-locked loop and XOR gate

8b/10b encoding

In telecommunications, 8b/10b is a line code that maps 8-bit words to 10-bit symbols to achieve DC balance and bounded disparity, and at the same time provide enough state changes to allow reasonable clock recovery.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-locked_loop

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