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Why must a very stable reference oscillator be used as part of a phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizer?
Any phase variations in the reference oscillator signal will produce phase noise in the synthesizer output
In a PLL, the output signal's phase is locked to the reference oscillator's phase. Therefore, any instability or phase noise from the reference will be transferred or even multiplied to the output signal.
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