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A circuit for compensating quantized noise in fractional-N frequency synthesizer, comprising a PLL circuit that locks a phase compensated signal to a phase of a reference phase, wherein the phase lock loop circuit comprises a frequency divider and a phase frequency detector; a sigma-delta modulation and phase difference calculator coupled to the frequency divider generating an accumulated phase error by accumulating all previous differences between an input of the frequency divider and an output of the frequency divider within a period; a digital controlled delay line coupled to both the frequency divider and the SDM and Phase Difference calculator and generates the phase compensated signal by multiplying the accumulated phase error with a delay control word; and the phase frequency detector further generates a phase error by comparing the phase compensated signal with the reference clock.

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