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Impact of Noise on BER estimation Michael Nelson / Pavel Zivny Tektronix 2005/08 Nelson/Zivny @ Tektronix T11/05-563v0 1 1 Impact of Noise on BER estimation • BERT can perform a BER measurement at a set vertical threshold at a given timing (within the UI). • By varying the timing of the BERT (within the UI) a plot of BER vs timing can be obtained - a “BER bathtub” plot. Insofar as the points of such bathtub plot are obtained from BERT measurements (rather than extrapolation) this will correctly describe the BER vs. timing of the BERT receiver used for the given signal. • Since the BERT measurement to low levels of BER is costly in terms of time alternatives are often used; one of which is estimation of BER bathtub from jitter analysis of the signal. • It is intuitively obvious that the fact that only horizontal (jitter) impairments are analyzed causes error in the BER bathtub plot. Here is an quantification of the error due to lack of consideration of the Gaussian noise (vertical) under one set of conditions. Nelson/Zivny @ Tektronix 2 2 The Setup of the Simulation The simulation is based the following signal: a 10 Gb/s PRBS7 impaired with ISI (BW limiting) but otherwise ideal (no PJ or PN, etc.). • To such signal two impairments are added: Gaussian horizontal jitter and Gaussian vertical noise To be explicit: The waveform is ‘shaken’ horizontally by the Gaussian jitter, and is shaken vertically Gaussian noise. So the way the jitter is accounted for is slightly different from the “RJ”, which includes