Differential Clock - why?

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Hi All,

Why a differential clock is used? I understand that it's probably needed for a protection from a noise, but anyway, are there another reasons?

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  • low skew between opposite edges is critical in some timing applications.
  • controlled impedance on both limits ringing and low skew cancels EMI of edges.
 

There are several advantages to using differential signaling. Three of the most important are these:
(1) Differential receivers reject common mode noise due to skew, power supply noise, interference, etc.
(2) Differential signals effectively double the voltage swing at the differential receiver increasing S/N.
(3) Well balanced and terminated differential transmission lines generate less EMI.
For these reasons, differential output formats are typically selected in high frequency and/or low jitter applications.
Please go to below link for more details.

https://www.ultracad.com/articles/differentialsignals.pdf
 
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