From Texas Instruments High-Performance Analog

Part 1 of this three-part article series
focused on how to accurately estimate
jitter from a clock source and combine it
with the aperture jitter of an ADC. In this
article, Part 2, that combined jitter will be
used to calculate the ADC's signal-to-noise
ratio (SNR), which will then be compared
against actual measurements.

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