J-BERT N4903A High-Performance Serial BERT Data Sheet
Figure 5: Spectral jitter decomposition for debugging jitter
sources in a design.
Figure 6: Eye contour with colors indicating BER level.
Figure 7: BERT scan including RJ/DJ separation, total jitter.
User Interface and Measurement Suite
Quick eye diagram and masking
The quick eye diagram allows a one-shot check for
a valid signal. Due to the higher sampling depth of
a BERT, the eye contour lines visualize the meas-
ured eye at a deeper BER level for more accurate
results. Extrapolated eye contour lines display the
eye opening for even lower BER levels, such as 10
-15
, reducing the measurement time significantly.
The display shows numerical results for 1-/0-
level, eye amplitude and width, total jitter and
more. Eye masks can be loaded from a library.
Violations of the captured eye mask are displayed.
The result screen can be printed and saved for
documenting test results (see figure 4).
Spectral jitter decomposition
It measures the spectral decomposition of jitter
components. When debugging designs, the jitter
decomposition simplifies identifying deterministic
jitter sources (see figure 5).
Eye contour
The eye opening is a key characteristic of a device.
The BER is displayed as a function of sampling
delay and sampling threshold. Different views are
available: eye contour (see figure 6), pseudo colors
and equal BER plots.
BERT scan including RJ/DJ separation
This measurement shows the BER versus the sam-
pling point delay, which is displayed as a “bathtub”
curve or as a histogram. The measurement results
are displayed in a table with setup and hold time
over phase margin, total jitter in rms or peak- to -
peak, and random and deterministic jitter. The
measurement method is equivalent to IEEE
802.3ae (see figure 7).
Figure 4: Quick eye diagram with BER contour and masking.
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User Interface
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