
Advanced Clock Drivers Devices
Freescale Semiconductor
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MPC93R52
The feedback trace delay is determined by the board
layout and can be used to fine-tune the effective delay
through each device. In the following example calculation a
I/O jitter confidence factor of 99.7% (
± 3σ) is assumed,
resulting in a worst case timing uncertainty from input to any
output of –445 ps to 395 ps relative to CCLK:
tSK(PP) = [–200ps...150ps] + [-200ps...200ps] +
[(15ps –3)...(15ps 3)] + tPD, LINE(FB)
tSK(PP) = [–445ps...395ps] + tPD, LINE(FB)
Due to the frequency dependence of the I/O jitter,
Figure 9, can be used for a more precise timing performance
analysis.
Driving Transmission Lines
The MPC93R52 clock driver was designed to drive high
speed signals in a terminated transmission line environment.
To provide the optimum flexibility to the user the output
drivers were designed to exhibit the lowest impedance
possible. With an output impedance of less than 20
the
drivers can drive either parallel or series terminated
transmission lines. For more information on transmission
lines the reader is referred to Freescale application note
AN1091. In most high performance clock networks
point-to-point distribution of signals is the method of choice.
In a point-to-point scheme either series terminated or parallel
terminated transmission lines can be used. The parallel
technique terminates the signal at the end of the line with a
50
resistance to VCC÷2.
This technique draws a fairly high level of DC current and
thus only a single terminated line can be driven by each
output of the MPC93R52 clock driver. For the series
terminated case however, there is no DC current draw, thus
the outputs can drive multiple series terminated lines.
Figure 10 illustrates an output driving a single series
terminated line versus two series terminated lines in parallel.
When taken to its extreme the fanout of the MPC93R52 clock
driver is effectively doubled due to its capability to drive
multiple lines.
The waveform plots in
Figure 11 show the simulation
results of an output driving a single line versus two lines. In
both cases the drive capability of the MPC93R52 output
buffer is more than sufficient to drive 50
transmission lines
on the incident edge. Note from the delay measurements in
the simulations a delta of only 43 ps exists between the two
differently loaded outputs. This suggests the dual line driving
need not be used exclusively to maintain the tight
output-to-output skew of the MPC93R52. The output
waveform in
Figure 11 shows a step in the waveform, this
step is caused by the impedance mismatch seen looking into
the driver. The parallel combination of the 36
series resistor
plus the output impedance does not match the parallel
combination of the line impedances. The voltage wave
launched down the two lines will equal:
VL =VS (Z0 ÷ (RS+R0 +Z0))
Z0 =50 || 50
RS =36 || 36
R0 =14
VL = 3.0 (25 ÷ (18+17+25))
=1.31 V
At the load end the voltage will double, due to the near
unity reflection coefficient, to 2.6 V. It will then increment
towards the quiescent 3.0 V in steps separated by one round
trip delay (in this case 4.0 ns).
Table 9. Confidence Factor CF
CF
Probability of clock edge within the distribution
± 1σ
0.68268948
± 2σ
0.95449988
± 3σ
0.99730007
± 4σ
0.99993663
± 5σ
0.99999943
± 6σ
0.99999999
Figure 9. Max. I/O Jitter versus Frequency
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
200
225
250
275
300
325
VCO frequency [MHz]
t JIT(
)[p
s]
rm
s
Max. I/O Jitter versus frequency
350
375
400
Figure 10. Single versus Dual Transmission Lines
14
IN
MPC93R52
Output
Buffer
RS = 36
ZO = 50
OutA
14
IN
MPC93R52
OUTPUT
BUFFER
RS = 36
ZO = 50
OutB0
RS = 36
ZO = 50
OutB1