A circuit for on-chip skew adjustment with jitter and setup time measurement

Masahiro Sasaki, Nguyen Ngoc Mai Khanh, Kunihiro Asada

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Abstract

This paper reports a circuit for on-chip skew adjustment with jitter and setup time measurement. A test chip has been fabricated in a 65-nm CMOS process. It successfully measures the random jitter distribution and the relative setup time. This circuit becomes necessary in SoCs because direct measurement cannot be performed by external equipment. Setup time of a D-FF is measured by sweeping over the range of an adjustable input delay line. Its jitter is represented by a Cumulative Distribution Function which is measured by sampling the setup time repeatedly. The skew can be adjusted based on the setup time and jitter determined by our method. Furthermore, this method can be extended for almost any number of Target/Reference Programmable Delay Lines. This system enables designers to adjust skew between the distributed clock paths as well as to measure sub-picosecond level jitter and setup time of D-FFs beyond 10-GHz.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2010 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2010
Pages217-220
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010 Dec 1
Externally publishedYes
Event2010 6th IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2010 - Beijing, China
Duration: 2010 Nov 82010 Nov 10

Publication series

Name2010 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2010

Conference

Conference2010 6th IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2010
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period10/11/810/11/10

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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