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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1999
Peter P. Fera, Saratoga, CA (US);
Condor Systems, Inc., Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Abstract
A signal transfer device measurement system and method of the present invention measures the signal transfer characteristics of a device under test (DUT) having an analog input port and either an analog output port or a digital output port. The measurement system and method comprise a stimulus waveform generator that produces a stimulus waveform. The stimulus waveform comprises a time sequence of pairs of narrow bandwidth, modulated signals. The stimulus waveform is applied to the input port of the DUT thereby producing an output response signal at the output port of the DUT. For a DUT with an analog output port, the measurement system and method further comprise an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for digitizing the output response signal and producing digital data and a signal processor for processing the digital data thereby producing measured results. For a DUT with a digital output port that produces digital data representing the DUT response, an ADC of digitizing is eliminated from the measurement system and method. In the preferred embodiment, the each pair of signals of the sequence of pairs of narrow bandwidth, modulated signals of the stimulus waveform comprises a reference frequency modulated signal and a variable frequency modulated signal, wherein a variable carrier frequency is varied from pair to pair in the sequence of pairs. Moreover, the reference frequency modulated signal and the variable frequency modulated signal are each double sideband, suppressed carrier, modulated signals modulated with a low frequency modulation signal.