Teledyne LeCroy WaveExpert 100H Operators Manual - Manual (Page 154)

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(base = 0 %, top = 100 %) to determine the vertical position of the crossing points.
The time interval separating the points on the rising or falling edges is then estimated to yield the
rise or fall time. These results are averaged over the number of transition edges that occur within
the observation window.
Rising Edge Duration
Falling Edge Duration
Where Mr is the number of leading edges found, Mf the
number of trailing edges found, the time when
rising edge i crosses the x% level, and the time
when falling edge i crosses the x% level.
Determining Time Parameters
Time parameter measurements such as width, period and delay are carried out with respect to the
mesial reference level (see Figure 2), located halfway (50%) between the top and base reference
lines.
Time-parameter estimation depends on the number of cycles included within the observation
window. If the number of cycles is not an integer, parameter measurements such as rms or mean
will be biased. However, only the last value is actually displayed, the mean being available when
statistics are enabled. To avoid these bias effects, the instrument uses cyclic parameters, including
crms and cmean, that restrict the calculation to an integer number of cycles.