EDN

How to take the evil out of eye diagrams

Every scientist, engineer, and technician involved in any form of electronics has used an oscilloscope. Scope displays of amplitude as a function of time provide intuitive and easily interpreted ...
Nature

Signal Integrity and Eye Diagram Analysis in High-Speed Interconnects

Signal integrity is a critical design consideration in modern electronic systems, particularly those that depend on high-speed interconnects. As data rates climb and interconnect geometries become ...
Electronic Design

CAN Eye-Diagram Mask Testing on Oscilloscopes

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced the oscilloscope industry's first eye-diagram mask testing capability for the differential Controller Area Network (CAN) serial bus. The CAN serial bus is used ...
EDN

Evolution of the eye diagram, Part 2

In part 1, I focused on the evolution of the eye diagram: from individual signal integrity measurements to a BER bathtub that determines eye closure or Tj at a specific BER. The downside to the BER ...
Electronic Design

Eye-Diagram Analysis Speeds DDR SDRAM Validation

Double-data-rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDR SDRAM) physical-layer testing is a crucial step in making sure devices comply with the JEDEC specification. The ultimate goal is to ...