Clock chips boast subpicosecond jitter

A new series of clock ICs aims to meet the most rigorous signal-processing requirements in today's high-performance electronics applications.

A new series of clock ICs aims to meet the most rigorous signal-processing requirements in today's high-performance electronics applications, such as wireless infrastructure transceivers, instrumentation and broadband infrastructure.

Within these applications, signal processing schemes are reaching astounding speeds, and jitter, or the uncertainty of the clock edge, can cause transmission errors and have an adverse effect on a system's overall performance.

ADI's new clock ICs feature ultra-low-jitter performance (subpicosecond), which enables the devices to deliver an extremely clean system clock for significant noise reduction in system-critical signal chains.