Reference clock rate detection for variable rate transceiver modules

RE Perez - US Patent 8,005,370, 2011 - Google Patents
The disclosed invention performs reference clock detec tion and rate detection within
communication port modules, which are referred to herein as transceivers. The invention …

Circuit for measurement of the signal quality in digital optical fiber transmission networks by interpreting the signal histogram

M Rasztovits-Wiech, K Studer - US Patent 6,904,237, 2005 - Google Patents
In an optical fiber communication system, for signal monitoring a transparent optical network
(all-optical networks), ie a system without digital intermediate regeneration, the bit error …

Jitter measurement circuit for measuring jitter of measurement target signal on the basis of sampling data string obtained by using ideal cyclic signal

H Hanai, T Funakura, H Mori - US Patent 6,934,648, 2005 - Google Patents
A jitter measurement circuit includes: a conversion section sampling one of a reference
signal and a measurement target signal in response to the other of the signals, thereby …

Composite eye diagrams

RA Nygaard Jr, JJ Haeffele - US Patent 6,810,346, 2004 - Google Patents
An eye diagram analyzer assigns a plurality of SUT data Signals to be members of a labeled
group of channels. There may be a plurality of Such groups. In addition to mere …

Data signal quality evaluation method and apparatus using high speed sampling

I Shake, H Takara - US Patent 7,190,752, 2007 - Google Patents
The scale and complexity of an apparatus is reduced by omitting a clock extraction section.
The apparatus includes: a sampling pulse train generation device which generates an …

Method and apparatus for monitoring a data eye in a clock and data recovery system

M Mobin, G Sheets, L Smith - US Patent App. 11/095,178, 2006 - Google Patents
Methods and apparatus are provided for monitoring a data eye associated with a received
signal. A plurality of samples of the received signal are obtained for each unit interval based …

Method and apparatus for signal integrity verification

TR Conklin, HB Hutchison Jr - US Patent 6,587,530, 2003 - Google Patents
The present invention provides a signal integrity measurement method and apparatus which
allows for signal characteristics to be measured by obtaining samples taken at the midpoint …

Eye diagram analyzer with fixed data channel delays and swept clock channel delay

RA Nygaard Jr, DD Eskeldson - US Patent 6,768,703, 2004 - Google Patents
Delay induced apparent amplitude desensitization in a data signal channel and its
accompanying worm-like distortion in an Eye Diagram Analyzer is avoided by altering the …