Phase Noise - Our Secret Weapon

Lord Kelvin was right:  If you can’t measure it, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

The key to designing and manufacturing high quality electronic equipment is the ability to make measurements on various parameters accurately, repeatedly, and quickly.  With signal sources such as oscillators, VCOs, TCXOs, and frequency synthesizers, no parameter is more important that signal purity.  The Holy Grail of signal purity is PHASE NOISE.

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