Determining Time Parameters - LeCroy WaveMaster 8600A Operator's Manual

The time interval separating the points on the rising or falling edges is then estimated to yield the
rise or fall time. These results are averaged over the number of transition edges that occur within
the observation window.
Rising Edge Duration
Falling Edge Duration
Where Mr is the number of leading edges found, Mf the number of
trailing edges found,
x% level,
level.

Determining Time Parameters

Time parameter measurements such as width, period and delay are carried out with respect to the
mesial reference level (see Figure 2), located halfway (50%) between the top and base reference
lines.
Time-parameter estimation depends on the number of cycles included within the observation
window. If the number of cycles is not an integer, parameter measurements such as rms or mean
will be biased. However, only the last value is actually displayed, the mean being available when
statistics are enabled. To avoid these bias effects, the instrument uses cyclic parameters, including
crms and cmean, that restrict the calculation to an integer number of cycles.
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the time when rising edge i crosses the
and the time when falling edge i crosses the x%
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