Jitter remains one of the most important specifications when measuring the goodness of a device. Compliance packages specify random jitter, deterministic jitter, time interval error, and total jitter.

An expert viewpoint brought to Electronic Design by Agilent Technologies, Inc. Today's data-transfer schemes are reaching amazing speeds in the gigabit-per-second range, but nothing in life comes for ...

Spread spectrum clocking (SSC) is used in many computer interfaces such as PCI Express and Serial ATA to improve the EMI performance of the interface. It takes the form of frequency modulation (FM) of ...

The three key network specifications for real-time (voice and video) traffic are packet loss, jitter and latency. Whenever I talk to folks about these, they understand the packet loss issue and they ...