The invention belongs to the technical field of a radio frequency wireless transceiver and particularly relates to a frequency synthesizer suitable for a software radio system. The frequency synthesizer provided by the invention comprises module circuits such as a phase frequency discriminator (PFD), a charge pump, a loop filter, a voltage-controlled oscillator, a programmable frequency divider, a sigma-delta modulator, an automatic frequency calibration circuit, an orthogonal output frequency-halving divider and the like, can cover each frequency range of protocols such as WCDMA (wideband code division multiple access), GSM (global system for mobile communication), TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronization code division multiple access) and the like and is suitable for the software radio system. Compared with the traditional frequency synthesizer, the frequency synthesizer provided by the invention has the improvements in the aspects of voltage-controlled oscillator structure, loop design, automatic frequency calibration algorithm and the like to realize better phase noise and frequency spectrum stray performance and has short locking time.