App Note: WaveRunner Xi Persistence Trace Displays (WRXi Note 5)

App Note: WaveRunner Xi Persistence Trace Displays (WRXi Note 5)
T E C H N I C A L N O T E

PERSISTENCE TRACE DISPLAYS
(WR_XI NOTE 5)
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.

Persistence trace functions offer
an easy-to-use method for ana-
lyzing signal variations such as
timing jitter and noise. While
persistence displays, such as
eye diagrams, offe