Measuring components of jitter
First Claim
1. A digital oscilloscope comprising:
- a channel to receive a signal having a repeating pattern that includes a sequence of transitions, said signal having jitter;
an acquisition module to acquire a plurality of digital samples of the signal over a plurality of occurrences of said repeating pattern;
a processor;
a first plurality of memory locations to store the acquired samples; and
a second plurality of memory locations coupled to the processor to store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause operations to be performed on the digital samples stored in the first plurality of memory locations to resolve the jitter into a plurality of components, said operations comprising;
i) determining at least one horizontal component of said jitter; and
ii) determining at least one vertical component of said jitter, said vertical component being distinct from said horizontal component.
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Abstract
Apparatus and associated systems, methods and computer program products relate to isolating horizontal jitter component(s) from vertical jitter component(s). In preferred embodiments, at least one horizontal component of jitter is distinguished from at least one component of vertical jitter by fitting a curve to a digitally acquired waveform, determining the curve slope and statistical variance about the fitted curve over at least one time period, identifying a functional relationship between the variance and slope, and determining therefrom at least one horizontal component of jitter and at least one vertical component of jitter. Random and deterministic jitter components may be aggregated, in certain embodiments, so as to identify a vertical jitter component that reflects both deterministic and random jitter. In preferred implementations, the isolated vertical jitter component is subtracted from a total jitter measurement so as to better approximate actual signal jitter.
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1. A digital oscilloscope comprising:
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a channel to receive a signal having a repeating pattern that includes a sequence of transitions, said signal having jitter;
an acquisition module to acquire a plurality of digital samples of the signal over a plurality of occurrences of said repeating pattern;
a processor;
a first plurality of memory locations to store the acquired samples; and
a second plurality of memory locations coupled to the processor to store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause operations to be performed on the digital samples stored in the first plurality of memory locations to resolve the jitter into a plurality of components, said operations comprising;
i) determining at least one horizontal component of said jitter; and
ii) determining at least one vertical component of said jitter, said vertical component being distinct from said horizontal component. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method of measuring jitter with an oscilloscope, the method comprising:
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receiving on a channel of a digital oscilloscope a signal having a repeating pattern that includes a sequence of transitions, said signal having jitter;
acquiring a plurality of digital samples of the signal over a plurality of occurrences of said repeating pattern; and
processing the digital samples to resolve the jitter into a plurality of components, said processing comprising;
i) determining at least one horizontal component of said jitter; and
ii) isolating at least one vertical component of said jitter from said horizontal component. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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