The paper presents the design and implementation of a DDS-driven PLL frequency synthesizer module using an offset mixing technique. The DDS, which is adopted as the reference generation for the PLL synthesizer, allows the synthesizer to have a fast switching time and narrow channel spacing. The offset mixing method allows an excellent in-band phase noise feature. The implemented frequency synthesizer has an excellent phase noise of -91.6dBc/Hz at an offset of 10KHz for the center frequency of 4.6GHz.
INDEX TERMS-Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer, FrequencySynthesizer, Offset Mixing.