The Periodic Table of Oscilloscope Tools: Analyze (Part II)

Figure 1: The Analysis
tools in an oscilloscope
lend it debug power

Oscilloscopes are central to many engineering tasks, but perhaps to none more so than debugging. Something is going on with your design but you don't know what it is. However, armed with an oscilloscope with the sort of sophisticated analysis tools found in Teledyne LeCroy's instruments, even Mr. Jones can get to the bottom of the problem. Let's continue our survey of the Periodic Table of Oscilloscope Tools with more on analysis tools.

The History of Jitter (Part III)

Figure 1: Latching a signal at the outermost of the blue

hash marks results in a BER of 10^-3, while latching it

at the innermost hash marks yields a BER of 10^-12

If you've been keeping track of our history of jitter, we left off in Part II in the late 1990s, by which time bit-error rates (BER) had become a predominant statistic for quantifying jitter. That was subsequently refined into thinking in terms of BER as a function of jitter.