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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2015
Keysight Technologies, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Andrew Robert Lehane, Kinross-shire, GB;
Keysight Technologies, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of operating a measurement instrument, such as a digital oscilloscope, includes receiving multiple analog input signals from a measurement target over respective channels, converting the analog input signal on each channel into a respective digital signal, and comparing signal values of the digital signal on each channel to at least one threshold to generate a stream of levels for each channel. The method includes combining the stream of levels for each channel into a combined stream of levels that reflects combined features of the multiple analog input signals, detecting a pattern in the combined stream of levels using a combined-feature matching procedure implemented by hardware, such as a Finite State Machine (FSM), and triggering the measurement instrument according to a result of the combined-feature matching procedure.