a. Eye diagram Eye diagram is an oscilloscope display. It’s generated when the digital data signal from a receiver is repetitively sampled and applied to the vertical input, while the data rate is used to trigger the horizongtal sweep. It is so called because, for several types of coding, the pattern looks like a series of eyes between a pair of rails.
Eye diagram is an important method to evaluate the quality of a lane, it can show out the impact of ISI and noise.
Fig 1. eye diagram
b. Eye mask Some oscilloscopes provide a feature to compare the measured data to an “eye mask.” An eye mask is a specifica-tion for allowed eye opening. The advantage of an eye mask is that it tests for amplitude as well as timing compliance. The general physical media transmitter pulse shape characteristics are specified in the form of a mask of the transmitter eye diagram at any of the compliance measurement points. These characteristics include rise time, fall time, pulse overshoot, pulse undershoot, and ringing, all of which prevent excessive degradation of the receiver sensitivity. For the purpose of an assessment of the transmit signal, it is important to not only consider the eye opening, but also the overshoot and undershoot limitations. The parameters specifying the mask of the transmitter diagram (eye mask) can be found in the clause of the applicable physical layer specification whether it be copper or fiber physical media. The eye mask, through its use of a specified time range in which the transmit signal can change state from the logic low to logic high levels, is also specifying a measure of the allowed jitter.
It is strongly advised not to use the eye mask to verify that total jitter is within specification because of the nature of the test.
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