Although the equation appears simple, the physical measurement of the variables presents a challenge to many system designers. A team of processor vendors and Tektronix engineers teamed up with processor boards and lab equipment to give you the dirt on power-consumption measurements. As clock rates push past 100 MHz, tiny variations in signal timing become critical to system performance. Although jitter is here to stay, you can minimize it.
Measurement is the key to keeping jitter under control.
You may think of scope probes as simple, and many are but no measurement can be better than the probe. The wrong probe not only can distort your signals, but also can make your circuit misbehave. Here was the world's next best circuit designer, and I had flunked my first big test. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information , A Division of Reed Elsevier, Inc .