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Also known as signal jitter, timing jitter, clock jitter

In electronics and telecommunications, jitter is the deviation from true periodicity of a presumably periodic signal, often in relation to a reference clock signal. In clock recovery applications it is called timing jitter. Jitter is a significant, and usually undesired, factor in the design of almost all communications links.

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  • Metrics
  • Types
  • Random jitter
  • Deterministic jitter
  • Total jitter
  • Examples
  • Sampling jitter
  • Packet jitter in computer networks
  • Video and image jitter
  • Testing
  • Mitigation
  • Anti-jitter circuits
  • Jitter buffers
  • Dejitterizer
  • Filtering and decomposition
  • See also
  • References
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In electronics and telecommunications, jitter is the deviation from true periodicity of a presumably periodic signal, often in relation to a reference clock signal. In clock recovery applications it is called timing jitter. Jitter is a significant, and usually undesired, factor in the design of almost all communications links.

Jitter can be quantified in the same terms as all time-varying signals, e.g., root mean square (RMS), or peak-to-peak displacement. Also, like other time-varying signals, jitter can be expressed in terms of spectral density.

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