Rms jitter vs. peak-to-peak jitter

1. What is peak-to-peak jitter?
2. What is RMS jitter?
3. How do you calculate rms jitter?
4. What is the difference between phase noise and jitter?
5. Does jitter change with frequency?

What is peak-to-peak jitter?

The term peak-to-peak is defined as the difference between the smallest and the largest period sampled during measurement. TIE jitter, also known as accumulated jitter or phase jitter, is the actual deviation from the ideal clock period over all clock periods.

What is RMS jitter?

Presentation of Jitter

Figure 5 and Figure 6 show the three ways that Jitter is usually quantified: Root Mean Square (RMS) jitter can be used to quantify or specify random jitter components. The RMS value can be considered equivalent to the standard deviation (σ) of a normal distribution.

How do you calculate rms jitter?

The standard procedure for measuring period jitter involves randomly measuring the duration of one clock period 10,000 times, and using the recorded data to calculate the mean, standard deviation and peak-to-peak values.

What is the difference between phase noise and jitter?

Phase noise and jitter both indicate the stability of a signal, and are interrelated. Specifically, phase noise is the instability of a frequency expressed in the frequency domain, while jitter is fluctuation of the signal waveform in the time domain.

Does jitter change with frequency?

Jitter and frequency modulation both involve a change in the frequency of an underlying signal. It's worth investigating how the two phenomenon differ. Jitter is usually defined as an undesired deviation in timing of a signal from its original periodicity.