[June 06, 2013] Anritsu Assigned Patent Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- Anritsu, Morgan Hill, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,457,187) developed by Ramzi Aboujaoude, San Jose, Calif., and Kyle Brian Stickle, San Jose, Calif., for an "integrated compact eye pattern analyzer for next generation networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A portable hand-held battery powered eye pattern analyzer is provided that can analyze signal quality of a high speed digital communication network. The system is 10 times smaller in volume and 4 times lighter than the bench-top equivalent instruments. The system includes a housing containing a display, keypad, power supply, battery pack, and RF sampler board along with connections for electrical inputs, optical inputs, clock signal inputs, and clock recovery signal inputs. The sampler circuit board can support connections, such as a USB plug for attachment to a personal computer. The RF sampler board contains the following elements: (1) A dual sampler for two-channel electrical inputs. (2) An Optical-to-Electrical O/E conversion module. (3) A clock recovery unit (CRU) module to recover the clock from the electrical or optical pulse pattern signal. (4) A trigger circuit that accepts an input clock and uses that clock to trigger the sampling of the data signal. (5) A PRBS generator that could be used as stimulus for testing high speed devices, and (6) A controller such as an FPGA that processes the sampled signals and provides statistical analysis along with eye patterns to a display as controlled using the keyboard." The patent application was filed on June 6, 2011 (13/154,216). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,457,187.PN.&OS=PN/8,457,187&RS=PN/8,457,187 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. AM0606JA0606-885884 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]