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3. TECHNICAL BRIEF
GS290 Operational Description Revision B
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3.19. RF synthesizer
The transceiver contains a fractional-N sigma-delta synthesizer for the frequency synthesis in the RX operation
mode. For TX operation mode the fractional-N sigma-delta synthesizer is used as Sigma-Delta modulation loop
to process the phase/frequency signal. The 26MHz reference signal is provided by the internal crystal oscillator.
This frequency serves as comparison frequency of the phase detector and as clock frequency for all digital
circuitry.The divider in the feedback path of the synthesizer is carried out as a multi-modulus divider (MMD).
The loop filter is fully integrated and the loop bandwidth is about 100 kHz to allow the transfer of the phase
modulation. The loop bandwidth is automatically adjusted prior to each slot (OLGA). To overcome the
statistical spread of the loop filter element values an automatic loop filter adjustment (ALFA) is performed
before each synthesizer startup. The fully integrated quad-band VCO is designed for the four GSM bands (850,
900, 1800, 1900 MHz) and operates at double or four times transmit or receive frequency. To cover the wide
frequency range the VCO is automatically aligned by a binary automatic band selection (BABS) before each
synthesizer startup.