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High-speed transceiver tester incorporating jitter injection

US8327204B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 26, 2006
Grant dateDec 4, 2012
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Expiry dateJun 16, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B17/20
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A tester for testing high-speed serial transceiver circuitry. The tester includes a jitter generator that uses a rapidly varying phase-selecting signal to select between two or more differently phased clock signals to generate a phase-modulated signal. The phase-selecting signal is designed to contain low- and high-frequency components. The phase-modulated signal is input into a phase filter to filter unwanted high-frequency components. The filtered output of the phase filter is input into a data-transmit serializer to serialize a low-speed parallel word into a high-speed jittered test pattern for input into the transceiver circuitry.

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