Periodic piecewise linear excitation for ADC testing

Piecewise linear waveforms have the advantage of being accurate and easy to generate while employing relatively simple circuitry. This make it attractive to consider piecewise linear functions as test signals for high performance ADC testing. In this paper a new set of periodic piecewise linear basis functions are presented and evaluated to assess the convergence quality, jitter detection, incoherent sampling response, spectral analysis, and phase shift sensitivity.