A technique is presented for removing large amounts of noise present in time-domain-reflectometry (TDR) waveforms to increase the dynamic range of TDR waveforms and TDR based S-parameter measurements. DesignCon 2011
Wavelet Denoising For TDR
Dynamic Range Improvement
Peter J. Pupalaikis, LeCroy Corporation
PeterP@LeCroy.com
Abstract
A technique is presented for removing large amounts of noise present in time-domain-
reflectometry (TDR) waveforms to increase the dynamic range of TDR waveforms and TDR
based s-parameter measurements.
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Author(s) Biography
Pete Pupalaikis was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1964 and received the B.S. degree in
electrical engineering from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1988.
He has worked at LeCroy Corporation for over 15 years and is currently Vice President and
Principal Technologist. For the last two years he worke……