Error rate measurement apparatus and error rate measurement method
AssigneeAnritsu Corporation
InventorsTatsuya Iwai, Hironori Yoshioka
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Abstract
An error rate measurement apparatus includes a display unit that displays a setting screen for setting a measurement condition of an error rate of an input signal from a DUT, and a processing unit that calculates a measurement time based on the measurement condition input to the setting screen, in which the setting screen includes a target confidence level input portion for inputting a target confidence level, a transmission rate input portion for inputting a transmission rate, a target error rate input portion for inputting a target error rate, an assumed-number-of-errors input portion for inputting an assumed number of errors during the measurement time, and a measurement time display portion for displaying the measurement time.
Claims8
An error rate measurement apparatus that measures an error rate of an input signal from a device under test for a measurement time, the error rate measurement apparatus comprising:
- a display unit that displays a setting screen for setting a measurement condition of the error rate;
- and
- a processing unit that calculates the measurement time prior to measurement of the input signal,
- wherein the setting screen includes:
- a target confidence level input portion for inputting a target confidence level,
- a transmission rate input portion for inputting a transmission rate of the input signal,
- a target error rate input portion for inputting a target error rate of the input signal,
- an assumed number of errors input portion for inputting an assumed number of errors during the measurement time of the input signal, and
- a measurement time display portion for displaying the measurement time of the input signal, and
- the processing unit calculates the measurement time satisfying the target confidence level based on the target confidence level, the transmission rate, the target error rate, and the assumed number of errors, which are input to the setting screen.
An error rate measurement method of measuring an error rate of an input signal from a device under test for a measurement time, the error rate measurement method comprising:
- a setting screen display step of displaying a setting screen for setting a measurement condition of the error rate on a display unit;
- an input step of inputting a target confidence level, a transmission rate of the input signal, a target error rate of the input signal, an assumed number of errors during the measurement time of the input signal to the setting screen;
- a processing step of, prior to measurement of the input signal, calculating the measurement time satisfying the target confidence level based on the target confidence level, the transmission rate, the target error rate, and the assumed number of errors, which are input to the setting screen;
- and
- a measurement time display step of displaying the measurement time calculated in the processing step,
- wherein the setting screen includes;
- a target confidence level input portion for inputting the target confidence level,
- a transmission rate input portion for inputting the transmission rate,
- a target error rate input portion for inputting the target error rate,
- an assumed number of errors input portion for inputting the assumed number of errors, and
- a measurement time display portion for displaying the measurement time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.