As many circuits and applications now enter the Gigahertz frequency
arena, accurate digital timing and jitter measurements have become crucial
in the design, verification, characterization, and application of electronic
circuits. To be successful in this endeavor, an engineer needs a knowledge
base covering instrumentation, measurement techniques, jitter and timing
concepts, statistics, and transmission line theory. Very often even the most
experienced digital test engineer – while mastering some of those subjects –
lacks systematic knowledge or experience in the high speed signal area.
The goal of this book is to give a compact yet in-depth overview on all
those subjects. The emphasis is on practical concepts and real-life guidelines
that can be readily put into practice. It unites in one place a variety of
information relevant to high speed testing and measurement, signal fidelity,
and instrumentation.
To keep the text easily readable – after all this is an introductory book –
we refrained from putting references directly into the text. For readers
interested in further study of any of the subjects we highly recommend
checking out the “References and Further Reading” section at the end of this
book which contains the titles of a large selection of additional books,
papers, and application notes that were the basis for this work.
A final word to all numerical values – for reasons of consistency this
book uses international (SI) units throughout – this means that some
numerical factors in the formulas are different compared to the original
literature they were taken from.
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