Total Jitter Measurement Through the Extrapolation of Jitter Histograms

The determination of the total jitter is critical to the evaluation of current serial data standards whose high symbol rates leave small jitter margins. The accuracy of jitter measurements is challenged by these smaller margins. Most current jitter measurement techniques estimate the total jitter by breaking the measurement down into random and deterministic components and then add them together using a multiplier in front of the random component.
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TOTAL JITTER MEASUREMENT THROUGH THE
EXTRAPOLATION OF JITTER HISTOGRAMS


Dr. Martin Miller, Author Two parts of the distribution are considered separately,
Chief Scientist, LeCroy Corporation specifically the first and last N percentiles of the distribution.
January 27, 2005 These are determined by locating the bins of the distribution