Hi Guillaume,

There appears to be an error going from the equation for frequency offset on page 9 to the figures on page 10 and forward in your presentation document 08-248r0. When the offset plotted is only half of the peak-to-peak offset as the max and min values of Cos(x) are 1 and -1 respectively and the peak-to-peak frequency offset therefore should be double the values plotted. i.e 14870 ppm at 30 kHz for 6 Gb/s.

These are extremely large values considering that the peak-to-peak transmitter deviation is 5000 ppm plus/minus frequency tolerance. The transmitter SSC waveform is often a triangular waveform in which the 30 kHz sinusoidal frequency component is merely 3624 ppm peak-to-peak followed by a decreasing amount at each odd harmonic of 30 kHz.

I do not see any source of ppm amplification in our SAS channel. We should certainly make sure that the receivers have some margin (i.e. that the SSC Waveform becomes a small or insignificant portion of our jitter budget). 4x margin may however a too much margin. We therefore suggest that the margin be 2x instead of 4x, this will leave the current ppm frequency offset numbers as is in the graphs while the UI numbers be half of the values of your presentation.

Sincerely,

Bent Hessen-Schmidt

SyntheSys Research, Inc.

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