APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING SKEW IN SERIAL DATA COMMUNICATION
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1. A method to measure skew between signals on channels in serial data communication comprising the step of:
- finding the cross over points in an acquired signal from each of the combination of channels under test;
converting the acquired signals into bit patterns;
identifying bit pattern index of the converted bit patterns matching with a reference bit pattern;
converting the bit pattern index of each of the identified matching bit patterns into record point;
calculating the time difference between said record points on different channels to derive the skew value.
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Abstract
An apparatus and method measures the skew between signals on data and clock channels using a bit pattern matching technique for any given protocol in Serial data communication. In one embodiment, the method of finding the pattern comprises of importing the waveform data from the oscilloscope and converting the waveform into bit patterns, finding the pattern index on the converted bit stream using a pattern based on the TMDS channel combination, and then measuring the skew.
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7 Claims
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1. A method to measure skew between signals on channels in serial data communication comprising the step of:
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finding the cross over points in an acquired signal from each of the combination of channels under test; converting the acquired signals into bit patterns; identifying bit pattern index of the converted bit patterns matching with a reference bit pattern; converting the bit pattern index of each of the identified matching bit patterns into record point; calculating the time difference between said record points on different channels to derive the skew value. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A system for finding skew between channels in a serial data communication, the system comprising:
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input means to acquire signals from a combination of channels to be tested; a programming unit configured to convert the acquired signal from each of the channel into bit patterns; said programming unit also configured to identify the bit pattern matching with a reference bit pattern to identify the index of such identified bit patterns and calculate the skew between such indexes.
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