SNAA386 November   2023 CDCE6214 , CDCE6214-Q1 , CDCE6214Q1TM , LMK00301 , LMK00304 , LMK00306 , LMK00308 , LMK00334 , LMK00334-Q1 , LMK00338 , LMK03318 , LMK03328 , LMK3H0102 , LMK6C , LMK6H , LMKDB1104 , LMKDB1108 , LMKDB1120 , LMKDB1202 , LMKDB1204

 

  1.   1
  2.   Abstract
  3.   Trademarks
  4. 1Introduction
  5. 2Introduction to PCIe
    1. 2.1 The PCIe Link
  6. 3PCIe Clocking Architectures
    1. 3.1 Common Clock Architecture
    2. 3.2 Separate Reference Architecture
    3. 3.3 Spread Spectrum Clocking
    4. 3.4 PCIe REFCLK Topology
    5. 3.5 Noise Folding
  7. 4PCIe Clocking Specifications
    1. 4.1 REFCLK Output Format
    2. 4.2 PCIe Jitter Requirements
    3. 4.3 PCIe Time Domain Requirements
  8. 5REFCLK Measurement Technique
    1. 5.1 Clock Generator Measurement Results
      1. 5.1.1 PNA Measurement Result without SSC
      2. 5.1.2 PCIe Filtered PNA Result without SSC
      3. 5.1.3 PNA Measurement Result, With SSC
      4. 5.1.4 PCIe Filtered PNA Result, With SSC
      5. 5.1.5 Time Domain PCIe Measurement Result
    2. 5.2 Clock Buffer Measurement Results
      1. 5.2.1 PNA Measurement Result
      2. 5.2.2 PCIe Filtered PNA Result
      3. 5.2.3 Time Domain PCIe Measurement Result
  9. 6Texas Instruments Products with PCIe Compliance
  10. 7Summary
  11. 8References

5.1.1 PNA Measurement Result without SSC

Figure 5-5 is the phase noise plot of the LMK3H0102 output clock as measured by the PNA. The 12 kHz to 20 MHz phase jitter is measured to be 179 fs. The PNA measurement is exported as a text file, from which we can import into the Texas Instruments PCIe Reference Clock Analysis Tool in TICS Pro. As PCIe Gen 6.0 requires data from 10 kHz to 50 MHz, the tool estimates the noise floor and extends the data to a full Nyquist band, 50 MHz.

GUID-20231121-SS0I-B8SV-2XJ2-8C7G535XQCLJ-low.png Figure 5-2 LMK3H102 Phase Noise Without SSC