A system for controlling equalization applied to a received signal comprising an equalizer configured to equalize on a received signal to generate an equalized signal, and a clock recovery module configured to recover a clock signal from the equalized signal or the received signal. A clock adjustment system is configured to receive the clock signal, and at least one control signal, to create a sampling clock signal. A filter is configured to filter the equalized signal to create a filtered signal. A sampling unit samples the filtered signal or the equalized signal such that the output of the sampling unit is provided to a controller. The controller is configured to receive and process the output of the sampling unit to generate a boost signal, and the controller is further configured to provide the boost signal to the equalizer to control the amount of equalization performed by the equalizer.

Systems and apparatuses can include a receiver that includes port to receive a flow control unit (Flit) across a link, the link comprising a plurality of lanes. The receiver can also include error detection circuitry to determine an error in the Flit, an error counter to count a number of errors received, the error counter to increment based on an error detected in the Flit by the error detection circuitry, a Flit counter to count a number of Flits received, the Flit counter to increment based on receiving a Flit, and bit error rate logic to determine a bit error rate based on a count recorded by the error counter and a number of bits received as indicated by the Flit counter. The systems and apparatuses can apply processes to perform direct BER measurements at the receiver.

Physical layer devices and related methods for determining Bit Error Rates (BERs) and correcting errors in signals received through shared transmission media of wireless local area networks are disclosed. A physical layer device is configured to identify coding violations in received signal, determine a rate of the coding violations in the signal, and estimate a BER of the signal to be equal to the determined rate of the coding violations. A physical layer device is configured to invert a half symbol immediately preceding or immediately following a coding violation based, at least in part, on signal integrities of the half symbol immediately preceding and the half symbol immediately following the coding violation to correct a bit error.

A jitter determination method for determining at least one random jitter component of an input signal is described, wherein the input signal is generated by a signal source, comprising: receiving the input signal; determining a time interval error associated with the random jitter component; determining at least one statistical moment of the time interval error based on the determined time interval error, wherein the order of the statistical moment is two or larger; at least one of determining an impulse response based on the input signal and receiving the impulse response, the impulse response being associated with at least the signal source; and determining the standard deviation of the random jitter component based on at least one of the determined statistical moment and the determined impulse response. Moreover, a measurement instrument is described.

A clock timing recovery method for determining a clock timing of an input signal is described, wherein the input signal is generated by a signal source, comprising: receiving the input signal; determining signal edges of the input signal based on the received input signal; determining at least a first clock timing model parameter; determining at least one jitter component of the input signal; and determining a clock timing error associated with the at least one jitter component, wherein the clock timing error is determined based on the determined signal edges, the determined first clock timing model parameter and the determined jitter component. Moreover, a measurement instrument is described.

Embodiments are disclosed for computing an eye diagram based on input pulse responses. An example method includes receiving a set of input pulse responses in one or more unit interval (UI) spaced samples. The set of input pulse responses is generated based on measuring a signal histogram of a receiver of a pulse amplitude modulation analog signal. The method further includes receiving a set of voltage range constraints and generating a matrix based at least in part on an element-wise trigonometric-based operation performed on one or more products of each element of the set of input pulse responses and the set of voltage range constraints. The method further includes generating an eye diagram probability density function based on the matrix and computing an eye diagram based on the eye diagram probability density function, the voltage range constraints, and time data associated with the one or more unit interval spaced samples.

There are provided a vehicle control device and a control method thereof capable of improving safety and reliability with a simple configuration. A vehicle control device 1 that controls a vehicle includes an execution management unit P3 that manages execution of predetermined processing, an execution state recording unit P5 that records a history of execution states of the predetermined processing, and a setting information management unit P4 that manages setting information related to the execution of the predetermined processing. The setting information includes a jitter tolerance which is a tolerance of a jitter. The execution management unit P3 adjusts an execution timing of processing to be adjusted, which is included in the predetermined processing and in which the jitter is generated, based on the jitter tolerance of the processing to be adjusted.

A route selection system includes a hub controller in communication with multiple network hubs of a first network domain in which each of the hubs are in communication with a corresponding multiple routers of a second network domain. The hub controller is executed to obtain at least one performance measurement associated with a route terminating at the network hub, generate a border gateway protocol (BGP) advertisement with a preference value that is proportional to the received performance measurement, and transmit the generated advertisement to the network hub, the network hub forwarding the advertisement to the router configured in the other network domain. Upon receipt of the advertisements, the second network domain selects one of the routers for processing the route through the second network domain according to the performance measurement included in the advertisement.

This application discloses a fault detection method, where the method is applied to a distributed node cluster, the node cluster includes a plurality of nodes, the method is performed by any one of the plurality of nodes, the any one node is a first node, and the method includes: determining, by the first node, whether a trigger condition for health assessment is met; and when the trigger condition for health assessment is met, separately assessing, by the first node, health of other nodes in the node cluster based on heartbeat delay data between the first node and the other nodes in the node cluster, and obtaining assessment results of the health of the other nodes in the node cluster.

A jitter decomposition method for decomposing several jitter and noise components contained in an input signal, wherein the input signal is generated by a signal source, is disclosed. The jitter decomposition method comprises: receiving the input signal; at least one of determining and receiving a reconstructed data dependent jitter signal; at least one of determining and receiving an impulse response, the impulse response being associated with at least the signal source; and determining at least a first statistical parameter being associated with a first jitter component or a first noise component in the input signal and a second statistical parameter being associated with a second jitter component or a second noise component in the input signal, the second jitter component or the second noise component being different from the first jitter component or the first noise component, respectively. The first statistical parameter and the second statistical parameter are determined by applying a statistical method at two different times, wherein the first statistical parameter and the second statistical parameter are each determined based on at least one of the reconstructed data dependent jitter signal and the impulse response. Moreover, a measurement instrument is disclosed.