Ken, Jitter can be a very complicated subject; we once received a detailed and complex presentation from LeCroy (now Teledyne) on the different types of jitter and how you could separate them out from each other e.g. random jitter, deterministic jitter, etc. It had more pictures and detail than this document - http://cdn.teledynelecroy.com/files/whitepapers/wp_jittermeasurement_in_serialdatasignals.pdf - but it gives you the flavour.
Generally jitter seems to be defined as a maximum deviation from an ideal clock rate (e.g. 0.25 x T_bit for HDMI). The ideal clock could be either a recovered clock in the case of a serial link (like HDMI or SATA) or a clock that is transmitted in parallel to the signal (like PCIe). Introduce spread spectrum clocking in there and measurement becomes even more interesting! For the frequencies that you refer to, I believe CISPR defines a measurement bandwidth of 1MHz so I'm not sure why someone would me measuring with such a RBW unless it was specifically mentioned in a standard. You might hope that excessive jitter would make these higher harmonics a little lower in amplitude ;) James From: Ken Javor [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 25 May 2016 04:20 To: [email protected] Subject: [PSES] Question regarding clock jitter specification What is a typical clock jitter specification? Is it given as a percentage of clock period? If not, how? Given some maximum jitter spec, how quickly does the clock period change? Can it go from no jitter to maximum deviation in one clock cycle? If so, is that typical? Or is it more typical to stay much closer to nominal than the jitter spec allows for many clock cycles, and then slowly deviate? These questions are asked not from a signal integrity vantage point, but rather that of EMC. In particular, I am concerned about people using very narrow measurement BWs to measure radiated emissions in microwave bands where the measurement is that of a clock harmonic, and thus the spreading of the clock jitter residual frequency modulation at the fundamental by the harmonic order. So for instance, if someone uses a 1 kHz BW at 10 GHz and expects to accurately measure the full value of a cw tone that is the harmonic of a lower frequency clock, the implication is that the jitter is less than 1e-7 of the clock period which will be much less than 1 ps even with a 10 MHz clock. If the jitter exceeds this value and actual radio protected by the RE measurement has a larger BW than that used in the RE measurement, then if the harmonic is quickly wandering in and out of the measurement pass band, it will be averaged in a way not representative of what the actual radio would see. Hence, the questions. Thank you, Ken Javor Phone: (256) 650-5261 - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe)<http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html> List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> David Heald <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]>
