App Note: WaveRunner Xi Persistence Based Statistics (WRXi Note 4)

App Note: WaveRunner Xi Persistence Based Statistics (WRXi Note 4)
T E C H N I C A L N O T E

PERSISTENCE BASED STATISTICS
(WR_XI NOTE 4)
The WaveRunner Xi oscilloscope
family offers several alternative
statistical analysis tools based
upon the analysis of persistence
displays. These include persis-
tence histograms and persis-
tence trace mean, standard de-
viation, and range functions. All
of these techniques are included
in the extended statistical analy-
sis option WRXi-STAT.

While persistence displays, such
as eye diagrams, offer fast quali-
tative views of signals, they are
often hard to quantify. Persis-
tence histogram functions, on
the o