Dear Greg and anyone else interested. You ought to take a look at a draft document entitled FC-MJSQ which can be found at www.t11.org, the website for the Fibre Channel standards group. This document, soon to be issued as a technical report, explains the relationship and a lot more. Happy reading. Regards, Paul -- Paul Levin Senior Principal Engineer Xyratex Storage Systems _______________________ Gregory R Edlund wrote: > Ray, > I heard a paper on StatEye by Sanders, Resso, and D'Ambrosia at DesignCon > East last month, and I was intrigued by the idea. In particular, the > paper seemed to be making a theoretical connection between bit error rate > and eye opening, which I've never seen before. Since I'm pretty new to > the serial link world I could use a very high-level explanation of the > technique. It seems to depend on replacing the familiar SI phenomena > (crosstalk, ISI, PDN noise) with statistical entities and then finding the > response of a complete link (transmitter+interconnect+receiver) to the > convolution of these individual statistical entities. Did I get this > right? > > Is there someone out there on the OIF that would care to explain the > "general idea" in a couple of paragraphs? > > Thanks in advance. > > Greg Edlund > Senior Engineer > Signal Integrity > IBM Engineering and Technology Services > 3605 Hwy. 52 N, Dept. HDC > Rochester, MN 55901 > gedlund@xxxxxxxxxx > > > Msg: #5 in digest > Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 12:54:35 -0700 > From: Raymond Anderson <Raymond.Anderson@xxxxxxx> > Subject: [SI-LIST] StatEye > > For those who may not be aware, a tool called StatEye has been developed > by the the OIF (Optical Internetworking Forum) PhyLayer working group > and is available as open source code. > > StatEye uses statistical methods to derive an eye diagram and jitter > metrics for a channel characterized by s-parameters. > > StatEye runs under Matlab 6.5.1 > > StatEye is a leading standards development tool, used widely by a > standards groups working with high speed interfaces. > > > From their web site: > > "StatEye is a non-profit open source forum for the development and > validation of physical interface channels and the signalling technology. > Our mission is to proliferate the use of a standard method for the > analysis of interface channels, that can be used by system and chip > developer alike." > > > The StatEye web site: http://www.stateye.org/ hosts the downloadble > code, documentation, papers and presentations and a forum dedicated to > StatEye topics. > > > -Ray Anderson > Sun Microsystems Inc. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from si-list: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field > > or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list > > For help: > si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field > > List FAQ wiki page is located at: > http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ > > List technical documents are available at: > http://www.si-list.org > > List archives are viewable at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list > or at our remote archives: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages > Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: > http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu