The TRU-2500 is the latest addition to Vectron Interna-
tional s family of high performance timing recovery
units. It extends the highly respected TRU-600 circuit
topology to 2.5 Gb/s data rates with performance opti-
mized to exceed the most stringent SONET/SDH trans-
mission standards.
VI s TRU-2500 regenerates clean clock and data sig-
nals from an incoming 2.488 Gb/s non-return to zero
(NRZ) data stream. The device utilizes SAW filter clock
recovery technology for superior jitter tolerance, jitter
transfer and jitter generation performance, independent
of the data pattern transition density. Output clock jitter
is exceptionally low at typically less than 2.0 ps RMS.
The clock is extracted from the NRZ data stream by
first passing it through a frequency doubler to generate
spectral energy at 2.488 GHz. A precision narrow-band
SAW filter extracts the clock and eliminates unwanted
jitter. The resulting clock is then precisely aligned at the
decision circuit to retime the input data.