/products/manufacturers/tektronix/b/blog/posts/understanding-how-to-analyze-jitterWhy You Should Care About Jitter Jitter is a common problem. A quantified misplacement in time of the signal relative to the expected time position, jitter is ultimately a degradation of the key definition of performance of a serial link, which is...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/products/manufacturers/tektronix/b/blog/posts/understanding-how-to-analyze-jitterWed, 04 Sep 2024 07:30:50 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:972247d6-dad4-439b-b750-d1893faeb929battlecoder0<p>This is a great summary of the issue of Jitter.&nbsp; It&#39;s a bit unfortunate that scopes with on-board Jitter analysis tools are normally the &quot;highest&quot;-end units, way outside the budget of most people (although arguably, this kind of analysis is mostly required by labs, that can probably afford them)<br /><br />Now, I&#39;ve seen some tools for LabView and similar software packages, but I&#39;ve not seen a vendor-provided (let&#39;s say, Tektronix) software suite that at least allows for that kind of analysis to be performed on a PC connected to one of their scopes capturing data. It should (theoretically) be possible.<br /><br />I have to admit, however, that I&#39;ve not looked that much, but at least from the brands of scopes I own, I&#39;m yet to see something like that.<br /><br />I can only hope for a day with this kind of analysis becomes a de-facto feature for even entry or mid-level scopes. As electronics become primarily digital, this could eventually become a &quot;must&quot;.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=28298&AppID=44&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">