Figure 1 Eye mask test with no violations. Eye diagram courtesy of Teledyne LeCroy, green mask drawn in by Ransom Stephens. In his presentation at DesignCon 2018, Teledyne LeCroy’s Marty Miller made a ...

By applying a mask test to the composite eye diagram, you can quickly tell if the signal can meet the overall signal-integrity requirement. If the signal ever violates the mask, there’s a ...

The bottom trace is the eye diagram for a serial data stream clocked at 5 GHz while the top trace shows the acquired time-domain signal. A horizontally expanded view is shown in the second trace from ...