Hag, Remember also that electrons do not read law or speak english -- so they know nothing about the arbitrary words used to qualify wow & flutter, jitter & wander, signal & noise, or short- & long-term stability.
They do, however, respect mathematics. And so when you make a frequency domain plot (e.g., L(f) phase noise) or time domain plot (e.g., Sigma(tau) Allan deviation) the results are a seamless report of performance from as small to as large as you can measure. BTW, how will you test and validate that your phase noise measurement device is giving correct results? /tvb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Camp" <[email protected]> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 7:12 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 117, Issue 61 Hi The dividing line between wander and jitter is a “legal" one rather than a physics one. It’s a breakpoint in a spec where the treatment of the noise changes from “do this” to “do that”. In most cases you pass wander and you attenuate jitter. Different specs put the line at different points based on hoped for system performance. Bob On Apr 18, 2014, at 9:17 AM, HagaaarTheHorrible <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dave and thanks for the quick answer! > My thesis is about a phase noise measurement device I developed, which > primary use is to measure phase noise/jitter of audioband DACs. I probably > won't be focussing on jitter too much but would like to know if there even is > one accepted standard definition. > For example, in the different definitions I found so far, the seperation > between jitter and wander sometimes is given to be at 1Hz, 10Hz and sometimes > just mushy definitions like "very low frequencies"... > I doubt it is that important for my thesis anyway, but I'd really like to > know for myself, so if anyone has a pointer for me it would be greatly > appreciated! > > > > > > >> >> >> >> Von: "Dave Brown" <[email protected]> >> Datum: 17. April 2014 11:21:25 MESZ >> An: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" >> <[email protected]> >> Betreff: Re: [time-nuts] Jitter Definition >> Antwort an: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement >> <[email protected]> >> >> >> It depends on what your thesis is all about- you could try some of the ITU >> documents for 'official' definitions but these may or may not be relevant to >> your thesis. >> DaveB, NZ >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "HagaaarTheHorrible" >> <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 2:54 PM >> Subject: [time-nuts] Jitter Definition >> >> >>> Hello there, >>> >>> I tried searching the archives (and google, IEEE, NIST, ITU), but didn't >>> really find a satisfying answer, so I thought I'd ask directly. >>> >>> In short: >>> Is there any kind of standard definition for Jitter which is commonly >>> accepted? >>> >>> I (think I) understood Jitter and phase noise by now, yet I need to give >>> some references in my bachelor's thesis, so I'm looking for a definition. >>> So far I haven't found a real definition of the different "types" >>> (RMS,p2p,c2c,...) and components(RJ,DJ) of Jitter, but I guess there must >>> be some kind of accepted standard!? >>> If anyone could point me to some "official sources" which are "accepted in >>> the industry", I'd be very grateful. >>> >>> Thanks in advance and best regards >>> >>> Hag >>> _______________________________________________ >>> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe, go to >>> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >>> and follow the instructions there. >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
