ASIC Jitter Measurement Set-up

This is a reference implementation for on-chip ASIC jitter measurement, making use of Delay Chains (DCs).

Archive Structure

This archive contains the following folders:

• measurements: Contains measurement data for the ASIC implementation.
• hardware: Contains netlist and layout views of the ASIC implementation.
• figures: Contains Python scripts to generate the figures in the publication below and visualizes the data in the measurement folder.
• lib: Contains helper Python scripts and figure generation options.

Publication

The data contained in this archive supports the following publication

• Adriaan Peetermans, and Ingrid Verbauwhede. Characterization of Oscillator Phase Noise Arising From Multiple Sources for ASIC True Random Number Generation. In: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS I): Regular Papers, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 1144-1157, 2024.