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Basics of Clock Jitter

Prepared by Baljit Chandhoke

ON Semiconductor

Introduction

This application note focuses on the different types of

clock jitter. Clock jitter is deviation of a clock edge from its

ideal location. Understanding clock jitter is very important

in applications as it plays a key role in the timing budget in

a system.

With the increasing system data rates, timing jitter has

become critical in system design, as in some instances the

system performance limit is determined by the system

timing margin. So a good understanding of the timing jitter

becomes very important in system design. Total jitter can be

separated into random jitter and deterministic jitter

components. We will not discuss the components of jitter in

this application note. We will focus on different types of

clock jitter.

Clock timing jitter can be measured in time domain and in

frequency domain. Cycle−to−cycle jitter, period jitter and

time interval error (TIE) jitter are measured in time domain,

where as phase noise and phase jitter are measured in

frequency domain. Some of the sources of jitter are thermal

noise, power supply noise, ground bounce, PLL circuitry,

crosstalk and reflections.

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Figure 1. Examples of Clock Jitter

Different types of Clock Jitter

  Cycle−to−cycle Jitter  − The cycle−to−cycle jitter



measures the change in clock period between any two

adjacent clock cycles over 1,000 clock cycles.

The cycle−to−cycle jitter RMS measures the



standard deviation of the change in clock period

measurement between any two adjacent clock cycles

over 1,000 clock cycles.

The cycle−to−cycle jitter peak−to−peak measures the



difference between minimum clock period change

and maximum clock period change between any two

adjacent clock cycles over 1,000 clock cycles.

The cycle−to−cycle jitter measurement is used to

determine high frequency jitter in applications as it

measures the jitter between two adjacent clock cycles. It is

very important to have a small value of cycle to cycle jitter

as it impacts the system timing margin.



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 Period Jitter − The period jitter measures the maximum



deviation of clock period of a clock cycle in the waveform

over 10,000 clock cycles.

The period jitter RMS measures the standard



deviation of the clock period measurements over

10,000 clock cycles.

The period jitter peak−to−peak measures the



difference between minimum clock period and

maximum clock period measurement over 10,000

clock cycles.

The period jitter measurement is used to determine low

frequency jitter in applications as it measures the jitter by

measuring the clock period deviations over 10,000 clock

cycles. Period jitter is used to calculate the system timing

margin. Figure 2 shows Example of Clock Period Jitter

Measurement of ON Semiconductor’s Programmable Clock

–  NB3N3020.



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  Time Interval Error (TIE) Jitter  − The TIE jitter



measures how far each active edge of the clock varies from

corresponding edge of an ideal clock.

The TIE jitter RMS measures the standard deviation



of the timing error.

The TIE peak−to−peak measures the difference of



the minimum and maximum timing error.

The TIE jitter is important in clock and data recovery

(CDR) PLLs to show if the PLL in the CDR is able to track

to the incoming data stream. A large TIE jitter shows that the

CDR PLL is not able to properly track the variation in the

incoming data stream. Figure 3 shows Example of Time

Interval Error (TIE) Jitter measurement of

ON Semiconductor’s Clock Synthesizer – NB3N3002.



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 Phase Noise − Phase noise is measured in the frequency



domain, and is a ratio of signal power to noise power

normalized to a 1 Hz bandwidth at a given offset from the

carrier signal.

Phase jitter is measured by integrating the phase noise

across specified frequency offsets from the carrier signal.

Phase jitter measures the amount of energy present in the

specified frequency offsets from the carrier signal compared

to the energy of the carrier signal by integrating the area

under the phase noise plot. As an example, SONET uses a

frequency offset of 12 kHz to 20 MHz from the carrier signal

to integrate the area under the phase noise plot to measure

phase jitter. Fiber Channel uses a frequency offset of

637 kHz to 10 MHz from the carrier signal to integrate the

area under the phase noise plot to measure phase jitter.

Figure 4 shows example of phase noise and phase jitter

measurement of one of the PureEdge

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 PLL devices from



the crystal oscillator product family – NBXDBB018 which

generates a dual frequency LVPECL output at 155.52 MHz/

311.04 MHz meeting the jitter requirements of SONET

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Figure 4. 

Conclusion

This application note provided an introduction of clock

jitter, explained the different types of clock jitter and

significance of each type of clock jitter measurement.

Examples of the different types of clock jitter measurements

were also shown in the content above. With increasing

system data rates, sometimes the system performance limit

is determined by the system timing margin, hence

understanding timing clock jitter is critical for system

designers.




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