Title : 
A sinewave fitting procedure for characterizing data acquisition channels in the presence of time base distortion and time jitter
         
        
            Author : 
Schoukens, Johan ; Pintelon, Rik ; Vandersteen, Gerd
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. Meas., Vrije Univ., Brussels, Belgium
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
8/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A method is proposed to characterize the nonideal behavior of a data acquisition channel using a sinewave fitting procedure. Three error sources are considered: the nonlinear (dynamic) behavior of the data acquisition channel (amplifiers, sample-and-hold, analog-digital convertor); the time base distortion; and the time jitter. These errors are quantified starting from a series of repeated sinewave measurements
         
        
            Keywords : 
curve fitting; data acquisition; digital simulation; electric distortion measurement; electric noise measurement; harmonic distortion; jitter; time bases; amplifiers; analog-digital convertor; data acquisition channels; dynamic behavior; error sources; harmonic distortion; nonlinear behavior; sample-and-hold; sinewave fitting; sinewave measurements; time base distortion; time jitter; Data acquisition; Distortion measurement; Frequency; Harmonic distortion; Jitter; Noise measurement; Power harmonic filters; Signal processing; Stochastic systems; Time measurement;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on