Frequency Acquisition Techniques For Phase Locked Loops

Talbot, who develops radio-frequency and analog engineering products, explains the frequency acquisition assistance techniques necessary and/or available for phase-locked loops (PLL) at a mathematical level suitable to engineers and technicians--that is, an occasional and optional formula rather than pages and pages of dense equations. His topics include simulating the PLL linear operational mode, phase noise and other spurious interferers, carrier recovery applications and acquisition, interfacing the frequency discriminator to the PLL, and frequency synthesis applications. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

DANIEL B. TALBOT currently runs a product development business specializing in RF/analog engineering. He has years of industry experience as a chief technical engineer at DBX Corporation, LTX Corporation, and a principal or research engineer or equivalent at Raytheon, RCA David Sarnoff Labs, General Instrument, and several other aerospace and commercial electronics firms; has been granted eight U.S. patents in the field of RF/analog/fiber optic engineering; and is an elected Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society and a Life Member of the IEEE.