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Title: clock divider - jitter Post by trond on Jun 17th, 2007, 11:52pm When dividing a system clock with a specified jitter, J, down by a factor of M, does the slower clock have the same jitter as the fast system clock or is it divided by M as well? I think the jitter is the same but might overlook something. For example jitter to period will change? For example, I am sampling a rectified frequency modulated signal. Thus I am introducing an error in each zero-crossing. When the clock has jitter, all I am doing as either adding or subtracting a little bit of the error introduced by the jitter-free clock. Now when decreasing the frequency of the clock, will the error due to jitter still be the same? Any comments are welcome. Cheers |
Title: Re: clock divider - jitter Post by imtired on Jun 25th, 2007, 2:12pm I'll take a stab at this... When you divide the clock, I believe that the absolute random jitter will be that of the clock plus the divider residual jitter. (Otherwise, where else is the jitter introduced from?) If you have some periodic jitter, then maybe the jitter characteristics may change after going through the divider. In terms of UI and L(f), the jitter should decrease (assuming the divider noise is low compared to the clock noise), because of what you already said, that is the period increases, while the amount of displacement of the clock edge from its ideal edge (i.e. absolute jitter) stays roughly the same. This is a consequence of all signals within the divider circuit being dependent on the input clock edge. You can also think of it as sampling the clock edges at a lower rate. The samples that you end up with are roughly the same as the input (and slightly corrupted by the divider circuitry), except they occur less frequently in time (longer period). I hope that helps. Robert |
Title: Re: clock divider - jitter Post by trond on Jun 26th, 2007, 11:02pm Thanks for the response. Out of curiosity. I was playing around with the frequency divider on the VerilogA/AMS page and was increasing the jitter to see the effects. At some point it happened that one of the jitter free edges was delayed and the consecutive edge was advanced such that an overlap occurred, and as a result, the jittered clock was missing an edge. Does such a thing ever happen in real life, especially at high clock frequencies? Also, are there schemes which divide a high clock and also reduce the absolute jitter? Thanks |
Title: Re: clock divider - jitter Post by imtired on Jun 27th, 2007, 11:41am In my experience, the divider noise is usually at least 2 orders of magnitude less than the period, which means practically you would never see such an event where one edge skips over another because of jitter. I've experience with SiGe dividers up to 40GHz input frequencies, that's 25 psec period, while the residual jitter is lower than what I can measure on Agilent's DCA, which is ~200-300 fsec RMS. And there are probably a handful publications on higher frequency dividers using CMOS. As for decreasing the absolute jitter, I've never actually considered anything like that before. But I could imagine a couple of ways to decrease the jitter of a signal in general. One way would be to use a re-timer at the output with a cleaner synchronized clock doing the re-timing. Or another way is to use a clean-up PLL either before or after the divider. |
Title: Re: clock divider - jitter Post by trond on Jul 3rd, 2007, 4:12am Thanks for your feedback imtired. You were very helpful. |
Title: Re: clock divider - jitter Post by buckaroo on Aug 9th, 2007, 6:54pm yes, the jitter is the same, however, the period is longer, the phase noise is better, u can find the simple relation in SpectreRF_VCO533AN.pdf, which u can get in cadence homepage |
Title: Re: clock divider - jitter Post by JPR75 on Aug 21st, 2007, 1:32pm Sometime people get confused because when you convert from phase noise to jitter, you divide by the frequency... |
Title: Re: clock divider - jitter Post by imtired on Nov 15th, 2007, 10:33am Yes the phase noise is better (in most cases by 6dB per division), but you really have to consider what the specific application is calling for. Sometimes phase noise is the appropriate performance criteria, while other times integrated jitter is more appropriate. Depends on what you're trying to do. And another thing, sometimes people can get confused by just looking at phase noise alone without really considering what's going on. You might think that because the phase noise improves by 6dB that the actual jitter has improved as well. But if you look at absolute jitter, then the jitter really hasn't decreased at all, in fact it probably is a tiny bit worse after going through the divider, due to residual divider noise. But if you look in terms of UI, then yes the jitter would have less UI, precisely because of what buckaroo was saying (the period doubles, but absolute jitter stays the same). |
Title: Re: clock divider - jitter Post by bgajda on Jan 16th, 2008, 6:16am Hi, I understand, that you're talking about synchronous dividers... in which the output clock is synchronized with input clock. In case of asynchronous divider (like a simple flip-flops chain) jitter would increase by sqrt(N). Am I right? Regards, Bart |
Title: Re: clock divider - jitter Post by buckaroo on Feb 27th, 2008, 10:57pm yes, you are right bart wrote on Jan 16th, 2008, 6:16am:
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Title: Re: clock divider - jitter Post by jeffyan on Mar 3rd, 2008, 9:39pm hi all, have you visited the following page: http://www.delroy.com/PLL_dir/FAQ/FAQ7.txt. things gets more complicated. i don't really understand what the jitter specifed in above link. let's have a discussion. jeff |
Title: Re: clock divider - jitter Post by ywguo on Apr 14th, 2008, 12:34am Hi Jeffyan, I think that is reasonable in the link http://www.delroy.com/PLL_dir/FAQ/FAQ7.txt. I quote it here. Scenario 1 is the percentage of jitter to period, while the jitter is random. Scenario 2 is the percentage of jitter to period, while the jitter is deterministic. Scenario 3 is the absolute jitter, while the jitter is random. Scenario 4 is the absolute jitter, while the jitter is deterministic. Quote:
Best wishes, Yawei |
Title: Re: clock divider - jitter Post by wen.sun on May 7th, 2008, 10:44pm i have a question when converting the phase noise to jitter, for example, if the oscillation frequency is 800MHz, the phase noise is integrated from 10kHz to 20MHz, is the jitter a long term jitter(800MHz/10kHz=80000 cycle)? according to the period jitter(one cycle), how much frequency offset should be integreated? |
Title: Re: clock divider - jitter Post by Anex on Jun 25th, 2019, 7:44am Hi all, I didn't quite understand how Scenario 3 works out. Could someone explain with some equations? Where does the sqrt(2) come from? What two random variables are being added here? ywguo wrote on Apr 14th, 2008, 12:34am:
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