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Displaying the Measured/Calculated Results
Histogram Display (see section 7.1 for the operating procedure)
By displaying the histogram (frequency distribution) of the measured data, you can see
the data distribution. Histogram display is possible in all sampling modes. This section
describes the histogram display in time stamp mode and hardware histogram mode. For
a description of the histogram display in inter-symbol interference analysis mode, see
“Inter-symbol Interference Analysis” on page 2-24.
Setting the Scale Value
To display the histogram of the measured data, scale values such as the X-axis center
(X Center), X-axis span (X Span), Y-axis maximum (Y High), and Y-axis scale (Y Axis)
must be specified. You can select whether to set these values according to the
measured data automatically or manually. When using the dual measurement function,
the scale values can be set independently for the histogram display of each
measurement function. For the procedure for setting the scale values, see section 8.4,
“Changing the Scale Values of the Histogram Display and Time Variation Display.”
Y-axis maximum
(Y High)
X-axis span (X span)
Right end value of
the X-axis
(Positive displacement
from the X-axis center)
X-axis center
(Median value of the center
value, X Center)
Bin
Left end value of the
X-axis
(Negative displacement
from the X-axis center)
Y-axis scale
(Linear or log)
Frequency Distribution
Each value of the X-axis represents a median value or a displacement with the X-axis
span divided into 600 sections (bins) (25 ps if the value is smaller than 25 ps). The
histogram is drawn by accumulating the number of samples that fall in each bin. For
example, if the bin is “505 ns to 515 ns,” the median value is 510 ns for that bin. The
samples the fall in that bin are handled as 510 ns, the median value.
Various Display Formats
In addition to histograms, panorama window (see page 2-17) can be displayed. The
histogram display frame can also be reduced to half the size to display statistics (see page
2-21) and readouts (readout values using markers, see page 2-19) in the blank space.
Panorama window
Displays the statistical values
Displays the readout values
Displays the histogram using half size and overlap OFF