SNAS635F December 2013 – August 2025 LMK00334
PRODUCTION DATA
In practical system applications, power supply noise (ripple) can be generated from switching power supplies, digital ASICs or FPGAs, and so forth. While power supply bypassing helps filter out some of this noise, understanding the effect of power supply ripple on the device performance is important. When a single-tone sinusoidal signal is applied to the power supply of a clock distribution device, such as LMK00334, the signal can produce narrow-band phase modulation as well as amplitude modulation on the clock output (carrier). In the single-side band phase noise spectrum, the ripple-induced phase modulation appears as a phase spur level relative to the carrier (measured in dBc).
For the LMK00334, power supply ripple rejection, or PSRR, is measured as the single-sideband phase spur level (in dBc) modulated onto the clock output when a ripple signal is injected onto the VCCO supply. The PSRR test setup is shown in Figure 8-8.
A signal generator was used to inject a sinusoidal signal onto the VCCO supply of the DUT board, and the peak-to-peak ripple amplitude was measured at the VCCO pins of the device. A limiting amplifier is used to remove amplitude modulation on the differential output clock and convert the signal to a single-ended signal for the phase noise analyzer. The phase spur level measurements are taken for clock frequencies of 156.25MHz and 312.5MHz under the following power supply ripple conditions:
Assuming no amplitude modulation effects and small index modulation, the peak-to-peak deterministic jitter (DJ) can be calculated using the measured single-sideband phase spur level (PSRR) as follows:
The PSRR vs. Ripple Frequency plots in Typical Characteristics show the ripple-induced phase spur levels at 156.25MHz and 312.5MHz. The LMK00334 exhibits very good and well-behaved PSRR characteristics across the ripple frequency range. The phase spur levels for HCSL are below –72dBc at 156.25MHz and below –63dBc at 312.5MHz. Using Equation 10, these phase spur levels translate to Deterministic Jitter values of 1.02ps pk-pk at 156.25MHz and 1.44ps pk-pk at 312.5MHz. Testing has shown that the PSRR performance of the device improves for VCCO = 3.3V under the same ripple amplitude and frequency conditions.