• DocumentCode
    30519
  • Title

    Evaluation of Agilent 3458A Time Jitter Performance

  • Author

    Lapuh, Rado ; Voljc, Bostjan ; Lindic, Matjaz

  • Author_Institution
    Slovenian Inst. of Quality & Metrol., Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Volume
    64
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    Jun-15
  • Firstpage
    1331
  • Lastpage
    1335
  • Abstract
    This paper describes the mechanism of an Agilent 3458A sampling time jitter present when external triggering is used at synchronous two-channel sampling. Based on measurements, it is shown that the master digital multimeter (DMM) adds approximately 3.2 ns of its own time jitter while triggering the slave DMM and that the effective time jitter for externally triggered DMM remains at around 7 ns, well below ±50-ns maximum jitter as specified by the manufacturer.
  • Keywords
    digital multimeters; sampling methods; timing jitter; trigger circuits; Agilent 3458A sampling time jitter; digital multimeter; slave DMM; synchronous two-channel sampling; triggering; Clocks; Frequency measurement; Jitter; Metrology; Signal to noise ratio; Timing; Estimation; measurement; noise; quantization; sampling; signal-to-noise ratio (SNR); synchronization; time jitter; uncertainty; uncertainty.;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9456
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIM.2015.2408793
  • Filename
    7087386