Modern cellular phones and base stations have to serve a multitude of wireless communication standards with each standard using different frequency bands. For such applications, a universal programmable hardware is desirable which is often referred to as software-defined radio (SDR). This book describes agile frequency synthesizers representing key building blocks for an SDR transceiver. In this work, an innovative frequency generation scheme is derived to provide a multi-octave tuning range with very low phase noise and low spurs. A PLL phase noise model including a nonlinear phase detector...