Characterization of a flip-flop metastability measurement method

Antonio Cantoni; Jacquelin Walker; Toby Daniel Tomlin

doi:10.1109/TCSI.2007.895514

Characterization of a flip-flop metastability measurement method

Antonio Cantoni, Jacquelin Walker, Toby Daniel Tomlin

Department of Electronics & Computer Engineering

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Abstract

We characterize a proposed metastability measurement system in which asynchronous data input and sampling clock frequencies trigger metastability. We develop an equation describing the time interval between data and clock inputs for practical frequencies and show that it takes on discrete values in the absence of jitter and that the presence of jitter perturbs these values. Finally, we present experimental results supporting our characterization.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1032-1040
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
Volume	54
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2007.895514
Publication status	Published - May 2007

Keywords

Circuit reliability
Digital system testing
Flip-flops
Metastability
Synchronization

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