Extracting random jitter and sinusoidal jitter in ADC output with a single frequency test

Abstract

An accurate and low-cost technique is proposed for sinusoidal jitter and random jitter estimation in high-speed ADC test. Exploiting the fact that clock jitter is modulated by the slope of input signal, the proposed method can simultaneously extract both information for sinusoidal jitter and random jitter with a single high frequency test. The proposed method is computationally efficient since only one FFT, one IFFT and few simple arithmetic operations are involved. Compared with existing dual-frequency tests and single-frequency tests, both hardware overhead and data acquisition time are saved significantly. Theoretical analysis and simulation results validate the computational efficiency and test accuracy.