HFAN-04.5.5 Characterizing Power-Supply Noise Rejection in PLL Clock Synthesizers

Abstract

This application note discusses the effects of power-supply noise interference on PLL-based clock generators. It describes several measurement techniques for evaluating the resulting DJ (deterministic jitter). Relationships are derived outlining how frequency-domain spur measurements can be used to evaluate timing jitter behavior. Laboratory bench-test results are used to compare the approaches, and demonstrate how to reliably assess the PSNR (power-supply noise rejection) performance of a reference clock generator. Read full article.