/products/manufacturers/wuerth-elektronik/b/blog/posts/all-about-oscillating-crystals---jitter-and-phase-noiseNobody is perfect. Even the best oscillator doesn’t produce a perfectly clean output curve, but will deviate in frequency, time, and amplitude. These are known as jitter and phase noise. In this blog we look at those in detail.en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/products/manufacturers/wuerth-elektronik/b/blog/posts/all-about-oscillating-crystals---jitter-and-phase-noiseTue, 26 Mar 2024 18:54:06 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:5d4e7cbf-be22-4a4d-9356-82986e8e9b9cDAB0<p>One of my first jobs was trying to synchronize to independent signals running at the same frequency, but on two separate oscillators.</p> <p>We spent a lot of time looking at the jitter and frequency stability.</p> <p>I wrote a simple algorithm that would analyze the pulse drift of the signal on the receiving end and found that a simple clock adjustment would attain synchronization very easily.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=27740&AppID=30&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">