Electronic Design

ADC Performance: What’s Jitter Got To Do With It?

Meeting the demanding performance requirements of today’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) applications, whether in high-data-rate telecom systems or high-quality audio and video equipment, requires extensive ...
Electronic Design

Fast ADC Facilitates Direct RF Sampling at Higher Frequencies

The critical component in all digital communications receivers is the analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The ADC sampling rate, bandwidth, and noise tolerance establishes the specifications and ...
EDN

Clocking requirements for high speed data converters

Wireless infrastructure, broadband and instrumentation applications generally require very high performance clocking circuits. The primary components being clocked in these systems are high speed data ...
EDN

Perfect timing: performing clock division with jitter and phase-noise measurements

When measuring ultra-low-jitterdevices and equipment,engineers must constantly askwhether the measurement valuesare from the DUT (device undertest) or from the test equipment.Engineers are also always ...