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2009 Asian Test Symposium
A Random Jitter RMS Estimation Technique for BIST Applications
Taichung, Taiwan
November 23-November 26
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3864-8
This paper describes a RMS value measurement technique for random jitter. A jittery clock signal is combined with a reference clock signal using an OR operation and an AND operation in sequence, and the pulse width outputs modulated by the amount of the random jitter are used to charge or discharge a capacitor. The voltage at the capacitor, in turn, modulates the frequency of VCO having a current-starved inverter, and whose frequency difference from the OR operation and the AND operation is used in calculating the RMS value of the random jitter. Circuit-level simulations show the validity of the proposed technique for up to 20% peak-to-peak jitter in the clock even with process variations. The proposed technique can be applied to BIST solutions for random jitter measurement on a transmitted clock signal.
Index Terms:
random jitter, built-in-self-test, RMS
Citation:
Jae Wook Lee, Ji Hwan Chun, Jacob A. Abraham, "A Random Jitter RMS Estimation Technique for BIST Applications," ats, pp.9-14, 2009 Asian Test Symposium, 2009
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