Figure 55: Measuring Jitter - Tektronix WFM8200 User Manual

Monitoring the SDI Physical Layer

Figure 55: Measuring jitter

To Manually Measure Jitter
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NOTE.
If you use the measurement cursors to measure jitter, you may get a
different result than that shown in the jitter thermometer for the following reasons:
the internal peak detector does a better job of measuring jitter excursions than
manually positioning the cursor; or the noise floor is removed from the jitter
measurement readout but not from the cursor delta readout.
1. Perform the initial setup for Eye measurements. (See page 105, Eye
Measurement Set Up.)
2. Use the SWEEP button to select the 3 EYE mode, which shows peak jitter
at each eye crossing.
3. Use the Eye pop-up menu to set the jitter high-pass filter to one of the
following:
To measure timing jitter, select the 10 Hz filter for both SD and HD
signals, or select the Timing filter.
To measure alignment jitter, select the 1 kHz filter for SD signals or select
the 100 kHz filter for HD signals, or select the Align filter.
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