Measuring metastability and its effect on communication signal processing systems

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 61-64

  Brown, Chuck ^a   Feher, Kamilo ^b,c  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Digcom Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CALCULATIONS; CATHODE RAY OSCILLOSCOPES; DEMODULATION; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); STATISTICS;

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION RECEIVER; DIGITAL SAMPLING OSCILLOSCOPES; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PACKET ERROR RATE;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 0031077390     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.552158     Document Type: Article

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