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how to measure eye diagram on a data signal triggered on a self-triggered clk signal

a048
a048 over 2 years ago

Hi, there.

I’m having some trouble using a clk signal rclk_2 section 1 to trigger another data signal vod_a2b2 section 2… The issue was, if I plot the non-triggered eye of rclk_2, the pos edge zero-crossings will be all jittery section 3, so if I directly use rclk_2 pos edge zero-crossings to trigger vod_a2b2, when the tool overlays all the segmented UIs of vod_a2b2 triggered on all those jittery zero-crossings, the eye would be much messier (assuming I understand the triggering mechanism correctly). What I’m trying to do is to trigger rclk_2 on its own pos edge zero-crossings first, such that all these pos edge zero-crossings are perfectly lined up section 4, and then use this self-triggered rclk_2 to trigger vod_a2b2, such that all the triggering points are not jittery at all compared to the previous case. But I don’t think the tool lets me enter a self-triggered as the triggering signal section 5…

Can someone please help think about how I can possibly tackle this? Could writing new a skill function be a possible solution?

Thanks

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  • a048
    a048 over 2 years ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hi, Andrew.

    Thanks for the confirmation. I did kind of explain above one confusion I had was that I've specified some period Trclk_average in the Eye Period field ("specify the time period for the eye diagram") while enabling external triggering Threshold field ("when crosses, the eye diagram starts a new period") at the same time, and these two fields seem to be contradicting each other - if the eye period follows the Trclk_average specified in Eye Period field, I wasn't sure if external triggering is aligning the jittery pos edge zero-crossings as thresholds to "start a new eye period". But I did a comparison above to clarify my own confusion.

    Regards

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