Automatic extraction of pulseparametrics from multi-valued functions

摘要

A digital serial communication signal is characterized by automatic extraction of pulse parametrics. Such characterization includes the sampling of the signal over a plurality of sample periods and obtaining a database corresponding to signal amplitude and time values and total occurrences of such time-amplitude values. The database is held in a two-dimensional array of accumulators, where each accumulator corresponds to a time-amplitude value and holds the total number of occurrences for such time-amplitude value. The signal is then characterized by the total value held in each accumulator cell.