High-speed serial standards are rapidly developing, and with a requirement for effective compliance and characterization measurement methods. Jitter decomposition consists in troubleshooting steps based on jitter components from decomposition results. In order to verify algorithms with different deterministic jitter (DJ) in actual circuits, jitter generation model by cross-point calibration and timing modulation for jitter decomposition is presented in this paper. The generated jitter is pre-processed by cross-point calibration which improves the accuracy of jitter generation. Precisely controllable DJ and random jitter (RJ) are generated by timing modulation such as data-dependent jitter (DDJ), duty cycle distortion (DCD), bounded uncorrelated jitter (BUJ), and period jitter (PJ). The benefit of the cross-point calibration was verified by comparing generation of controllable jitter with and without cross-point calibration. The accuracy and advantage of the proposed method were demonstrated by comparing with the method of jitter generation by analog modulation. Then, the validity of the proposed method was demonstrated by hardware experiments where the jitter frequency had an accuracy of 20 ppm, the jitter amplitude ranged from 10 ps to 8.33 ns, a step of 2 ps or 10 ps, and jitter amplitude was independent of jitter frequency and data rate.

The arbitrary waveform generator is characterised by its flexible signal generation, high frequency resolution and rapid frequency switching speed and is wildly used in fields like communication, radar systems, quantum control, astronautics and biomedicine.With continuous development of technology, higher requirements are placed on to the arbitrary waveform generator. Sampling rate determines the bandwidth of the output signal, spurious-free dynamic range determines the quality of generated signal. Due to above, these two indicators’ improvement is vital. However, the existing waveform generation methods cannot generate signals with quality good enough due to their technical limitations, and in order to realize a high system sampling rate, to accomplish waveform generation process in FPGA, multipath parallel structure is needed. Therefore, we proposed a parallel waveform synthesis structure based on digital resampling, which fixed the problems existing in the current methods effectively and achieved a high sampling rate as well as high quality arbitrary waveform synthesis. We also built up an experimental test bench to validate the proposed structure.