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Table 26: Supported communications measurements and their definition (Cont.)
Name
Definition
Duty Cycle Distortion
The peak-to-peak time variation of the 1st eye crossing measured at the MidRef as a
percent of the eye period.
percent of the eye period.
DCD (sec) = 100% x TDCD
p--p
/(TCross2
mean
-- TCross2
mean
)
Quality Factor
Ratio of eye size to noise.
y
y
Quality Factor = (PTop
mean
-- PBase
mean
)/(PTop
sigma
+ PBase
sigma
)
Levels Used in Taking Eye Measurements
All eye-diagram measurements are based on the power level, the voltage level, or
the time locations of edges within each acquisition.
Figure 5 shows an eye-diagram and the areas from which values are taken that
are used to calculate measurements.
TCross
1
TCross
2
PBase
PTop
PCross
1
PCross
2
Eye
Aperture
Figure 5: Eye-diagram and optical values
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