Jitter spectral extraction for multi-gigahertz signal

  • Authors:
  • Chee-Kian Ong;Dongwoo Hong;Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng;Li-C Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Santa Barbara, CA;University of California, Santa Barbara, CA;University of California, Santa Barbara, CA;University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2004 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method for extracting the spectral information of a multi-gigahertz jittery signal. This method may utilize existing on-chip single-shot period measurement techniques to measure the multi-gigahertz signal periods for spectral analysis. This method does not require an external sampling clock, nor any additional measurement beyond existing techniques. Experimental results show that this analysis method can accurately estimate the amount and frequencies of periodic and random jitter of a multi-gigahertz signal.