Performing MIL-STD 1553 Eye-diagram Mask Testing
Application Notes
Eye-diagram mask testing is used in a broad range of today’s serial bus applications. An eye-diagram is basically an overlay of all bits captured by the scope to show when bits are valid and not valid. This provides a composite picture of the overall quality of a system’s physical layer characteristics, which includes amplitude variations possibly due to transmission line affects, reflections, system noise, over-shoot, ringing, signal edge timing, and jitter.