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Although all serial data standards specify a required receiver jitter tolerance, compliance testing of the link physical layer has generally ignored the receiver. However as the data rates are increasing, the standards organizations are realizing that testing only the transmitter and relying on interoperability test to cover the receiver will not assure data integrity. Thus, the newer standards are beginning to incorporate receiver jitter tolerance testing as part of the “gold suite” of required compliance tests. During this test, a known compliance pattern is sent to the receiver, superimposed with a calibrated amount of jitter. Many designers who have only dealt with transmitter testing have questions of what is involved with a receiver test, and how to set it up correctly.

This seminar fills the knowledge gaps by:

• Explaining receiver testing.
• Giving insight into the sometimes complicated “recipe” of jitter sources used in the test, including random, periodic, duty cycle distortion, and inter-symbol interference.
• Showing how these jitter sources relate to the interference mechanisms in the real communication channel.
• Explaining how to properly calibrate the jitter sources to assure accurate testing to the standards, without overstressing the receiver.

We will also discuss special requirements for testing receivers using spread spectrum clocking, or when transmitter pre-emphasis equalization is used.