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The Role of Jitter in Timing Signals

Timing signal jitter can have a profound impact on a wide variety of applications from analog radio frequency (RF) or audio-to-digital communications. While information in a communications system, for ...
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EDN — 11.23.95 straightforward techniques cut jitter in PLL-based clock driver

Jitter is extremely important in systems using PLL-based clock drivers. The effects of jitter range from none at all to complete system failure. This article describes jitter and its causes and ...
Electronic Design

The Uncertainty About Jitter

Volumes have been written about jitter, an indication of the complexity associated with timing uncertainty. Actually, timing errors are easy to measure. It is in the assignment of blame that the ...
Electronic Design

Characterize Jitter Measurements On 10G Signals

With the continued quest for ever-higher performance, the unit interval (UI) for a data valid window continues to shrink. At a 1-Gbit/s rate, the UI is 1000 ps, shrinking to 200 ps at 5 Gbits/s and a ...