Jitter, Noise, and Signal Integrity at High-Speed (Prentice Hall...

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 400 pages
• Published by: Prentice Hall PTR
• Edition: 1st Edition November 29, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0132429616
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0132429610
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.2 x 1.2 inches
• Weighs: 2.2 pounds

Reader Reviews
The jitter area was really needing some new books and altough this book should be added to the library of any engineer working on jitter (there are not that many) it does fall short from what the author promisses. He does present a good initial discussion on the different types of jitter but the presented mathematical framework (mainly based on linear system theory) is very dry (sometimes of no use apart from some formalism) and provides little help to the engineer doing real work. More important the author basically presents mainly presents his work and forgets a significant large amount of published work from other people (for a first book on jitter in several years the reference sections are very very poor). The Signal Integrity aspect the book is extremly poor and the loopback testing section is useless (again forgeting a lot of industry work already available). Unbelievable also is no in dept discussion on the jitter details of any standards (PCI expres, etc...) altough the author was part of some those comittes. The arguments presented against the BER Q based jitter separation algortithm are strange (he states that since an erfc() function is not part of the C++ standard library it is not easy to write the code !!! There are several free implementations of the erfc() function available) for good and bad this is the algorithm on the PCI Express II standard and just because he is not the inventor of the algorithm we engineers need to use it and a fair and wider discussion was needed. The text does contain some errors and for a book that has so many equations the author should have used a word processor that could make the text/equations more easy to read (e.g. latex) and not MS word. But at the moment there is not to much in the jitter area in book form. So if you have the time to spend on it go ahead. Comment | | (Report this)