Designed especially for measuring phase noise and for characterizing RF signal sources, the FSUP signal-source analyzer is presented as the first such instrument to combine a high-performance spectrum ...

Measuring phase noise with a spectrum analyzer. The primary advantage of dedicated phase-noise analyzers. The cross-correlation method. Using a spectrum analyzer is the oldest, most straightforward, ...

As clock speeds in communications systems push into the GHz range, phase noise and jitter ” always key issues in analog designs ” are becoming increasingly critical to the performance of digital chips ...

Some brief theory and typical measurements of phase noise. Standard analysis of PLL phase noise used by most CAD applications. How to produce the lowest phase noise at a PLL output. A standard design ...

Microwave frequency combs offer a powerful platform for precision timing, sensing, and signal processing, but their practical use has long been ...

Oscillator drift remains one of the most critical threats to precision timing in high-performance communication systems. In ...

(a) Unwrapped phase map of the method described in this paper, (b) unwrapped phase map of the nonlinear filter, and (c) unwrapped phase map of the binary mask filter ...