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What is the effect of distributing harmonically related clocks (on chip or on board) in terms of jitter?

April 26, 2017chip clocks distributing harmonically jitter terms

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What is the effect of distributing harmonically related clocks (on chip or on board) in terms of jitter?

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Harmonically related clocks in general do not produce extra jitter. However, the variation in propagation times can cause edges to occur noncoincidentally. This can possibly produce jitter if the amplitudes of the various edges are too high at a given node.