Electronic Design

Bit-Error-Rate Testers Face Ethernet Speed Challenges

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. The bit error ratio (BER) is defined as the probability that a bit is received in ...
EDN

The difference between BER and BER

In 2013, I posted a poll on DesignCon Community—the predecessor to DesignCon Central—asking which definition for BER engineers used. The choices were bit-error ...
EDN

History of jitter, Part 3: BER as a function of jitter

If you've been keeping track of our history of jitter, we left off in Part 2 in the late 1990s, by which time bit-error rates (BER) had become a predominant statistic ...
Electronic Design

Test & Measurement: Powerful Bit-Error-Rate Tester Works At 1500 Mbits/s

The BA1500 1500-Mbit/s BitAlyzer bit-error-rate (BER) tester provides detailed BER tests and points out where and when errors occur. It shows errors, block errors, and error-free interval statistics ...
TechRepublic

FPGA-Based Bit Error Rate Performance Measuring of Wireless Systems

The Bit Error Ratio (also BER) is the number of bit errors divided by the total number of transferred bits during a studied time interval. The proposed BER Tester ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Overcoming Signal Integrity Challenges Of 112G Connections

One of the big challenges with 112G SerDes (and, to a lesser extent, all SerDes) is handling signal integrity issues. In the worst case of a long-reach application, the signal starts at the ...