Phase-Locked Loop Engineering Handbook for Integrated Circuits

| A v | opamp gain |
| B | 3-dB bandwidth |
| B FFT | equivalent FFT bandwidth |
| B pll | 3-dB bandwidth of the closed-loop PLL |
| B rcv | receiver bandwidth |
| B sa | spectrum analyzer bandwidth |
| c | speed of light |
| C o | controlled output in control-systems theory |
| C o/R i | closed-loop transfer function used in feedback and control systems |
| f | frequency |
| F | noise figure |
| F rcv | receiver noise figure |
| f c | frequency of the carrier |
| f d | maximum frequency deviation in frequency-modulation theory |
| f di | deviation of the instantaneous frequency |
| f IF | intermediate frequency |
| f in | input frequency |
| f int | frequency of intercept with white phase noise. |
| f l | corner frequency of flicker noise |
| f m | frequency of modulation (sideband, offset, Fourier, baseband) |
| f n | natural frequency |
| f op | operating frequency of a radar system |
| f out | output frequency of the PLL |
| f 3p | frequency of 3-dB point |
| f ref | reference frequency in a PLL |
| f syn | output frequency of the synthesizer |
| f v | frequency value at the relative power level L( f i) used in Bode plot models of phase noise |
| f x | 0-dB magnitude crossover frequency |
| f z | frequency location of the zero in a PLL |
| G | gain |
| G(s)H(s) | open-loop transfer function used in feedback and control systems |
| G(f) | forward transfer function used in feedback and control systems |
| G n | amplifier gain |
| G pll | gain constant of a PLL |
| H(f) | feedback transfer function used in feedback and control systems |
| I P | charge pump current |
| k | Boltzmann's constant |
| K cco | transfer function of a... |