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Test & Measurement World’s < NOTE: UBM is putting Test and Measurement World under the EDN brand, in the transition, some of these these links may not work for a while... if you want to read one of these, send me a note and I’ll bump you the PDF > Eye on Standards: Test pattern redemption! 15-Jan-2013 Vote no on PRBS31 (and the problem with journalism...), 6-Nov-2012 PRBS31: slower, costlier, worse, 26-Sep-2012 The very short reach of 25 Gb/s, 31-Aug-2012 Samtec out-geeks PCIe’s OCuLink, 15-Aug-2012 PCI Express update: the next, next, next generation, 25-July-2012 DLL-based clock recovery cranks up net bandwidths, 2-July-2012 Measuring ISI at high data rates is impossible, 18-June-2012 Test patterns are supposed to stress you out, 31-May-2012 Does OIF have to do everything?, 22-May-2012 Peace at the plugfest, 24-Apr-2012 Receiver Tolerance Testing – with crosstalk!, 2-Apr-2012 Deterministic Jitter for High Speed Serial Receiver Tolerance Testing, 8-Mar-2012 Top ten reasons to love (and hate) 100 Gigabit Ethernet, 16-Feb-2012 Serial standards keep test engineers on edge, 9-Feb-2012 Discovery of the Higgs Boson: Pt 1, Herding cats on the Franco-Swiss border, 17-July-2012 Pt 2, What they detect, 25-July-2012 Pt 3, What they actually measure, 1-Aug-2012 Pt 4, Identifying the stuff in the detectors, 9-Aug-2012 Pt 5, ATLAS and CMS - the biggest test devices on earth, 21-Aug-2012 Pt 6, ATLAS and CMS - catching muons and neutrinos, 28-Aug-2012 Pt 7, What a Higgs Boson looks like, 21-Sep-2012 Pt 8, Is the particle observed at CERN really the HIggs Boson?, 25-Sep- 2012 Sponsored White papers, Application Notes, Feature Articles by Ransom Stephens: Physical Layer Tests of 100 Gb/s Communications Systems, Application Note published and distributed by Tektronix Corp., 2012. Crosstalk problems are back, feature article for Test & Measurement World, July, 2012. Crossing the Digital-Analog Divide, a white paper for Agilent Technologies, 2012. Critical 100 Gigabit Ethernet Testing: Equalization, Dp-QPSK, and Crosstalk Compliance, a webinar and App Note for Picosecond Pulse Labs, 2012. Introduction to Precision Analysis of High Speed Serial Systems and Components, a webinar and Tech Note for Picosecond Pulse Labs, 2011. Signal Integrity Analysis at Extreme Data Rates - focusing on 100 Gb Ethernet to see where we're headed and what we need to anticipate, a White Paper written for Anritsu, 2010. (Winner of the 2010 DesignCon Best Paper Award) A new Technique for Stessed Receiver Tolerance Testing Using Crest Factor Emulation, with John Calvin, DesignCon 2010. Analysis of Random Noise and the Effect of Band-Limited Noise on Stressed-Eye Receiver Tolerance Tests - with Marcus Mueller, DesignCon 2009. Characterization of Gaussian Noise Sources - with Bob Muro, NoiseCom, DesignCon 2008. The Future of Multi-Clock Systems - with Roman Boroditsky and Juan Gomez of NEL, DesignCon2008; also available as a White Paper for NEL Frequency Controls, Inc., 2007. Using Clock Jitter Analysis to Reduce BER in Serial Data Applications - an Application Note written without a byline for Agilent Technologies, 2006. Anticipating, Characterizing, and Avoiding Problems with Crosstalk - presented at DesignCon in 2006. Equalization: The Correction and Analysis of Degraded Signals - a white paper written with a byline for Agilent Technologies. See also, Opening Closed Eyes: Analysis and Equalization of High Data Rate Signals on Buses and Backplanes - presented at DesignCon2006. The Rules of Jitter Analysis - published in the online trade magazine, AnalogZone for Agilent Technologies. Jitter Analysis: The dual-Dirac model, RJ/DJ, and Q-scale - a white paper for Agilent Technologies that is the paper most frequently referenced on dual-Dirac and Q-scale by standards groups and other authors. Jitterfest: Why Different Jitter Analyzers Give Different Results and Which is Right - published in the online trade magazine, AnalogZone. See also, Comparison of Different Jitter Analysis Techniques with a Precision Jitter Transmitter - white paper describing the results of the study led by Ransom for Agilent Technologies to determine the accuracy of different jitter analysis methods; and Jitter Analysis: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why - a web- seminar presented live that set and attendance record for Agilent Technologies with over 600 viewers when delivered live and a total of over 2000 viewers including the archived broadcast. Analyzing Jitter at High Data Rates - published in IEEE Optical Communications. Measurement of Total Jitter at Low Probability Levels Using the Optimized BERT Scan Method - with Marcus Mueller and Russ McHugh of Agilent Technologies - this paper presented a new technique invented by Ransom that reduced test time by a factor of ten with improved accuracy and won a DesignCon paper award. Precision Jitter Transmitter - an application note written with Jim Stimple of Agilent Technologies, documents the most accurate jitter transmitter every made - developed in a project conceived and led by Ransom. Back to Basics in Optical Technology - a day-long seminar created by Ransom and delivered coast-to-coast at the sites of Agilent Technologies’ customers. Knowledge Series sponsored by Tektronix Instruments: Answering Next-Gen Serial Challenges • How Stressing a Receiver Removes Stress from a Designer • The Case of the Closing Eye • Acting on an Impulse: Equalization and Emphasis “Jitter 360” - sponsored by Tektronix, 2005-2006 (download the whole series here): • The Meaning of Total Jitter • What the Dual-Dirac Model is and What it is Not • All About the Acronyms: RJ, DJ, DDJ, ISI, DCD, ... • Jitter Analysis in Systems with Crosstalk • Clock Recovery in Serial-Data Systems • Reference Clock Jitter and Data Jitter Global warming/climate change: an easy calculation, 22-May-2013 Measuring the transition to disaster, 17-May-2013 Resolving to map the brain: resolution, resolution, resolution, 16-Apr-2013 Measure of chaos: When uncertainty runs amok, 9-Apr-2013 Measuring gravitational radiation, 4-Mar-2013 In search of gravity waves, 19-Feb-2013 Getting lucky at trade shows, 22-Jan-2013 Noise in the time dimension: the strange case of flicker, 17-Jan-2013 Measuring and generating creativity, 18-Dec-2012 Can electronic health records save your world?, 6-Dec-2012 Measure of holiday calories - the thermodynamic diet, 20-Nov-2012 Resolving problems in the infrared, 26-Oct-2012 Measure of the mind: connectome, 10-Oct-2012 Measure of politics: Polls, 4-Oct-2012 Measure of the Olympics, 30-July-2012 The most cited references in high speed technology Measure of Things Articles on the science of technology and the technology of Science. (Sponsored by United Business Media, LLC) The Test & Measurement Community for Engineers, sponsored by Tektronix, Scope Junction: < NOTE: Scope Junction lost sponsorship so these links may not work for a while...    if you want to read one of these, send me a note and I’ll bump you the PDF > Time domain? Frequency domain? … frequency of the phase domain! 26-Apr-2013 Five scope specs Dr. J must have, 8-Apr-2013 AMI comes alive! 25-Mar-2013 You can see the crosstalk in 10-0GbE, 28-Feb-2013 Tail-fitting is back--worry!, 13-Feb-2013 Dual-Dirac doesn’t approximate total jitter, 29-Jan-2013 How the trouble with RJ led to TJ, 17-Jan-2013 Jitterfest, 7-Jan-2013 If it Works in Theory, It Will Work in Practice (cont’d), 24-Dec-2012 If it Works in Theory, It Will Work in Practice, 17-Dec-2012 Working Toward Single Wavelength Petabits, 19-Nov-2012 Solving the Crosstalk Dilemma: CAJ me if you CAN, 29-Oct-2012 My First Time was Cosmic, 11-Oct-2012 Analyzing Crosstalk on a BERT, 27-Sep-2012 The One-Box Solution, BERT Edition, 6-Sep-2012 Oscilloscopes Have Become a One-Box Solution, VNA Edition, 20- Aug-2012 Oscilloscopes: a one-box solution?, 6-Aug-2012 Scope TLAs & Metaphorical Phosphor, 20-July-2012 How dancing clocks saved the world, 5-July-2012 Get your BUJ off my RJ! 21-June-2012 Measuring RJ on oscilloscopes, 8-June-2012 Can oscilloscopes really measure BER? 21-May-2012 How open is your eye? 7-May-2012 How to tell if crosstalk will cause errors, 19-Apr-2012 Analyzing crosstalk on a real-time oscilloscope - exercising your genius, 5-Apr-2012 Real or equivalent: What time do you need?, 15-Mar-2012 Do my measurements have meaning?, 5-Mar-2012 Are You an A-Engineer or a Z-Engineer?, 20-Feb-2012 Is a crosstalk bubble forming?, 13-Feb-2012 It’s not jitter, it’s noise, 26-Jan-2012 Equalization succumbs to crosstalk at DesignCon 2012, 26-Jan-2012 The DesignCon Community, Sponsored by Agilent: Commercial Content in DesignCon Papers, 17-May-2013 Is DesignCon Ready for Photonics? 6-May-2013 Is the Frequency Domain for Real? 2-Apr-2013 The Mystery of Long Test Patterns, Part 2, 8-Mar-2013 The Mystery of Long Test Patterns, Part 1, 4-Mar-2013 Top 10 Things at DesignCon 2013, 11-Feb-2013 The case of the closing eye, 24-Jan-2013 Techno-festivus for the engineering-rest-of-us, 14-Jan-2013 Innovating an innovative design career, 7-Dec-2012 Design is innovation, 19-Nov-2012 What makes DesignCon special?, 22-Oct-2012
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