In part 1, I focused on the evolution of the eye diagram: from individual signal integrity measurements to a BER bathtub that determines eye closure or Tj at a specific BER. The downside to the BER ...

Used in numerous disciplines, from science and philosophy to sports and cooking, diagrams depict concepts, processes, and actions in visual form — pictures of ideas as opposed to pictures of things.

In a future post, I will describe another evolution of the eye diagram where the closure is not constrained to just a horizontal/jitter slice. In the product reliability world, the failure rate ...