Questions tagged [eye-diagram]
An eye diagram is an oscilloscope display in which a digital signal from a receiver is repetitively sampled and applied to the vertical input (y-axis), while the data rate is used to trigger the horizontal sweep (x-axis).
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How can I draw an eye diagram by hand?
I am trying to understand eye diagrams and their significance in digital communications. I know that an eye diagram is typically used to visualize signal integrity, timing jitter, and noise in digital ...
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Help with Implementation of proprietary UART single-master and multi-client protocol
The plan is to communicate with multiple client MCUs (Node-B, Node-C,...) where each transmission is initiated by ONE master MCU (Node-A). The underlying PHY will be UART, but each RX AND TX line will ...
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LVDS eye diagram
I'm out of my area of expertise since I don't design digital stuff, but both the digital and test engineers are booked elsewhere yet big-boy scope available, it has fallen on me to test the LVDS eye ...
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PCIe 4 and 5 GT/s characteristic, its connection to frequency [duplicate]
While designing a board that uses PCIe gen5 interface, I was wondering how exactly gen5 standart achieves double data speed comparing to gen4 (32GT/s PCIe5 and 16GT/s PCIe4)? Both 4 and 5 are 16ghz ...
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Effect of Pre-emphasis on Eye Diagram
Pre-emphasis is mainly used to boost high frequency component in the transmitted data. This is done by using FIR equalization. I am aware that, at the data transition, more current is pumped is pumped ...
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Display port eye diagram evaluation
I was testing my display port diagram, all 4 lines. The first three look good, the 4th line looks like it has only one signal (not differential.) My question: Is the 4th line okey to be like this. (...
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Why do we need an eye diagram?
There are some protocols with a dedicated line for clocking, and there are some protocols without a dedicated line for clocking. The last ones need a synchronization sequence which regularly zeroes ...
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How are patterns for eye diagrams sliced?
I am reading articles about eye diagrams (for example, Anatomy of an Eye Diagram.) Everywhere in the description of the diagram formation method they talk about multiple overlay of patterns, about 001,...
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USB3.0 Differential Pair Eye Diagram - Transmitter Issues
Used the SI Power Aware analysis on the DP/DM signals for this simulation: I'm having more issues on my Tx rather than the Rx. I do understand the Rx eye diagram but I'm struggling with the wild ...
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Eye diagram testing setup
I have a SerDes communication that I am trying to perform the eye diagram to. I have an FPGA with generic IO's set up as LVDS SerDes and I will run them down to 300 MHz instead of my target frequency ...
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Issue with Eye Diagram in ADS
I am simulating eye diagram in ADS using the below setup The schematic is drawn following the ADS manual After simulating, I tried to plot the eye diagram using Density This is what I get but it is ...
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Measuring Ethernet Waveform on a scope
I measured the following waveform on a scope. It is a 100MBps Ethernet signal and I am measuring the TX+ and Tx- signals between the magnetics and RJ45 connector. I see what looks like a double ...
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How to diagnose eye diagram slope on physical impedance problems?
When looking at the eye diagram as shown bellow, if we have high rise time which is cause by RC properties, what can we say about the impedance? What could cause bad rise time? Thanks.
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RS485 Eye diagram - does it look good?
I got a new diff probe, I am trying it out on RS485. I'm triggering on the rising edge. The RS485 is running at 25Mhz. Does the eye diagram look good? Could I double the speed (50MHz) and be ok? (...
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What does it mean if eye diagram voltage (0 and 1 level) goes negative?
I have created a differential channel and was testing the channel with simple testbench to check the eye diagram. Now I know the channel performance is very bad (It of several PCB transmission lines, ...