WO1998048514A2 - Frequency synthesizer, particularly for use in a channel ic for hard disks - Google Patents
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- H03L7/00—Automatic control of frequency or phase; Synchronisation
- H03L7/06—Automatic control of frequency or phase; Synchronisation using a reference signal applied to a frequency- or phase-locked loop
- H03L7/08—Details of the phase-locked loop
- H03L7/0805—Details of the phase-locked loop the loop being adapted to provide an additional control signal for use outside the loop
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- G11B20/14—Digital recording or reproducing using self-clocking codes
- G11B20/1403—Digital recording or reproducing using self-clocking codes characterised by the use of two levels
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- H03L—AUTOMATIC CONTROL, STARTING, SYNCHRONISATION, OR STABILISATION OF GENERATORS OF ELECTRONIC OSCILLATIONS OR PULSES
- H03L7/00—Automatic control of frequency or phase; Synchronisation
- H03L7/06—Automatic control of frequency or phase; Synchronisation using a reference signal applied to a frequency- or phase-locked loop
- H03L7/07—Automatic control of frequency or phase; Synchronisation using a reference signal applied to a frequency- or phase-locked loop using several loops, e.g. for redundant clock signal generation
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- H—ELECTRICITY
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- H03L—AUTOMATIC CONTROL, STARTING, SYNCHRONISATION, OR STABILISATION OF GENERATORS OF ELECTRONIC OSCILLATIONS OR PULSES
- H03L7/00—Automatic control of frequency or phase; Synchronisation
- H03L7/06—Automatic control of frequency or phase; Synchronisation using a reference signal applied to a frequency- or phase-locked loop
- H03L7/16—Indirect frequency synthesis, i.e. generating a desired one of a number of predetermined frequencies using a frequency- or phase-locked loop
- H03L7/22—Indirect frequency synthesis, i.e. generating a desired one of a number of predetermined frequencies using a frequency- or phase-locked loop using more than one loop
- H03L7/23—Indirect frequency synthesis, i.e. generating a desired one of a number of predetermined frequencies using a frequency- or phase-locked loop using more than one loop with pulse counters or frequency dividers
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- G—PHYSICS
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- G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
- G11B20/00—Signal processing not specific to the method of recording or reproducing; Circuits therefor
- G11B20/10—Digital recording or reproducing
- G11B20/12—Formatting, e.g. arrangement of data block or words on the record carriers
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- G11B20/1258—Formatting, e.g. arrangement of data block or words on the record carriers on discs where blocks are arranged within multiple radial zones, e.g. Zone Bit Recording or Constant Density Recording discs, MCAV discs, MCLV discs
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- Frequency synthesizer particularly for use in a channel IC for hard disks
- the invention relates to a frequency synthesizer comprising an input for receiving a reference frequency signal, a first frequency divider and a phase-locked loop circuit including a first controlled oscillator, a low-pass filter, a phase detector and a second frequency divider, the first frequency divider being coupled between the reference frequency input and an input of the phase detector.
- Such a frequency synthesizer is well-known and is used particularly in a channel IC for hard-disks, intended for processing the read/write signals in disk drives.
- a channel IC is described in, for example, "A Single-Chip 9-32 Mb/s Read/Write Channel for Disk-Drive Applications" by M. Zuffada et al. in IEEE-SSC, vol. 30, no. 6, June 1995, pp. 650-659.
- the oscillator therein serves for generating the write signal frequency and its oscillation frequency should be very high and should preferably also be very stable and free from noise.
- such an IC includes a second controlled oscillator for synchronizing a read signal and an oscillator used in the servo demodulator to control the position of the write/read heads.
- a second controlled oscillator for synchronizing a read signal
- an oscillator used in the servo demodulator to control the position of the write/read heads.
- the data is recorded in zones and during reading/writing it is often necessary to jump from one zone to another.
- the data rates in the various zones are different and, to ensure that the passage from one zone to another proceeds as rapidly as possible, it is desirable that the write and read oscillator adapt their frequencies as rapidly as possible to that of the data stream to be processed.
- the frequency can be changed rapidly in a PLL circuit but this is effected at the expense of the frequency accuracy and the noise.
- stringent requirements are imposed on these two characteristics, as a result of which a slow change of the frequency had to be accepted until now.
- the invention provides a frequency synthesizer of the type defined in the opening paragraph, which is characterized by a second phase-locked loop circuit coupled to the reference frequency signal, an analog multiplier/divider for converting the control signal from the second PLL circuit into a control signal which is substantially similar to the control signal needed to cause the first controlled oscillator to supply the desired frequency, and an analog subtractor circuit coupled between the output of the low- pass filter and the control input of the first controlled oscillator and having a first input arranged to receive the output signal of the multiplier/divider, having a second input arranged to receive the output signal of the low-pass filter, and having an output coupled to the control input of the first oscillator.
- the invention is based on the recognition of the fact that a rapid frequency change of the write oscillator is possible while maintaining a high stability and a good signal-to-noise ratio in that a substantial part of the control signal necessary to obtain the required frequency step is derived by means of an analog circuit, i.e. rapidly, from a control signal that is already available and in that the rest is derived by means of the phase- locked loop of the write oscillator, the required accuracy being obtained by means of the last-mentioned control loop without the signal-to-noise ratio or the stability being adversely affected thereby.
- the PLL circuit of the servo control system is used for the second PLL, which circuit is anyway present in the channel IC and can be used for the synchronization of the servo low-pass filter or for the servo signal detection.
- the output signal of the subtractor circuit which forms a satisfactory measure of the desired write oscillator frequency, can also be coupled to the read frequency oscillator and/or the equalizer circuit present in the IC. In this way it is achieved that these circuits can also be set very rapidly to a new frequency necessary for correctly reading the data stream in a new zone.
- the signal from a reference frequency oscillator 1 is coupled to two PLL circuits.
- the first PLL circuit comprises a frequency/phase detector 2, a low-pass filter 3 and a current-controlled oscillator 4.
- a first input of the detector 2 receives the reference frequency and another input receives the output signal of the oscillator 4.
- the detector 2 has its output coupled to the input of the oscillator 4.
- the PLL circuit which comprises the detector 2, the filter 3 and the oscillator 4, is a circuit which is used anyway in the servo demodulator.
- a PLL circuit for such a servo signal is necessary at any rate in such an IC and can therefore be used advantageously for the invention.
- the output signal f servo of the controlled oscillator in the servo circuit is independent of the position of the read/write head with respect to the write surface and is equal to f ref (or f re f/2).
- the output signal of the low-pass filter 3 which is a measure of the oscillator frequency, can be used for controlling the bandwidth of a servo low-pass filter 14, if necessary after further filtering in a low-pass filter 12 and/or multiplication and division in a circuit 13.
- the servo control circuit is known per se and falls beyond the scope of the invention.
- the second PLL circuit in the frequency synthesizer in accordance with the invention is adapted to supply the channel IC with a write signal having a frequency (M/N)f ref , where M and N are positive integers.
- the second PLL circuit includes a current-controlled write signal oscillator 5, a digital 1/M divider 6, a phase detector 7 and a low-pass filter 8.
- the output signal of the oscillator 5 is divided by M and in the phase detector 7 it is compared with the reference frequency f ref , which has been reduced to f ref /N in a 1/N divider 9.
- the output signal of the phase detector 7 is coupled to the input of the oscillator 5 via a low-pass filter 8.
- the divisors M and N are externally adjustable and are dictated by the desired data rate for a zone of the hard disk in which data is to be recorded.
- a change of zone may require a frequency change of some tens of per cent and the new frequency is reached comparatively slowly if this frequency change is effected only by changing the values of M and N in the respective dividers 6 and 9 and a satisfactory signal-to-noise ratio is given the highest priority.
- the control signal of the PLL loop for the write oscillator in the case that a change is required is influenced externally by applying the output signal of the low-pass filter 3, or the filter 12 if present, of the first PLL circuit to an input of a subtractor circuit 11 via an externally adjustable analog M/N divider 10, the other input of the subtractor circuit 10 receiving the output signal of the low-pass filter 8.
- the output signal of the subtractor circuit is a measure of the desired frequency change and is applied to the write oscillator. Since the analog M/N divider responds very rapidly to a newly set multiplier/divisor M7N', the control signal of the second PLL is adapted very rapidly to the desired situation in that the control signal of the oscillator 5 is changed stepwise.
- the oscillator frequency is rapidly made to approximate to the desired frequency f ref M7N ⁇ after which the second PLL loop itself can provide the correction by the last few per cent.
- this results in a very rapid frequency change 4 s obtained and, on the other hand, the desired stability and good signal-to-noise ratio of the write oscillator frequency can be maintained.
- One of the advantages obtained by means of the invention is that the requirements to be imposed on the low-pass filter 8 can be considerably less stringent.
- Such a filter gives rise to either additional noise and jitter, or a slower response of the control loop.
- the invention enables a much simpler filter to be used while the accuracy is maintained. It is to be noted that for a correct operation of the circuit in accordance with the invention it is necessary that the oscillators 4 and 5 produce a similar frequency variation for a similar change in bias current but in an integrated circuit this can be achieved without any problem.
- the output signal of the subtractor circuit 11, which is a measure of the desired change can also be used advantageously for controlling a PLL loop, shown diagrammatically in the Figure, which includes an oscillator 15 for the read frequency signal f r , a phase detector 16 and a low-pass filter 17, and also for adjusting the bandwidth of an equalizer circuit 18 present in the channel IC.
- a PLL loop shown diagrammatically in the Figure, which includes an oscillator 15 for the read frequency signal f r , a phase detector 16 and a low-pass filter 17, and also for adjusting the bandwidth of an equalizer circuit 18 present in the channel IC.
- Such current-controlled filters as well as current-controlled oscillators can be realized with the aid of current-dependent transconductances and fixed capacitors by the use of conventional techniques.
- the frequency synthesizer in accordance with the invention has been described for use in a channel IC for a hard disk, it will be evident to those skilled in the art that the principle of the invention can be used particularly in those cases where a rapid stepwise change of the frequency of a controlled oscillator included in a phase-locked loop is required.
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