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Characterizing the VCO jitter due to the digital simultaneous switching noise

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Tian Xia,

Peilin Song,

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GLSVLSI '05: Proceedings of the 15th ACM Great Lakes symposium on VLSI

Pages 70 - 73

https://doi.org/10.1145/1057661.1057680

Published: 17 April 2005 Publication History

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We study the simultaneous switching noise(SSN) generated by the digital I/O buffers and its impact on VCO. A simple yet accurate model is developed to analyze the ground bounce and power supply fluctuation in each region respectively. Calculation results with the models show good agreements with HSPICE simulation results. Based on the noise model, we investigate the SSN effects on the timing jitter of a current starved VCO. In this study, the RMS jitter and jittery signal spectrum are characterized.

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GLSVLSI '05: Proceedings of the 15th ACM Great Lakes symposium on VLSI

April 2005

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ISBN:1595930574

DOI:10.1145/1057661

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