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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007

Filed:

Nov. 04, 2005
Applicant:

Kyle L. Bernard, Tigard, OR (US);

Inventor:

Kyle L. Bernard, Tigard, OR (US);

Assignee:

Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 23/16 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A measurement instrument is provided with an FFT module providing a frequency domain output; and a power calculator connected to the frequency domain output to measure power statistics for a test signal of arbitrary length. In some embodiments, a spectrum integration module is provided to calculate the power contained within a frequency band. In an embodiment, a filter/averaging module is provided to compute signal power statistics over an arbitrary time period. Accumulators may be provided to store data related to maximum power, minimum power, average power, or peak to average power. A CCDF module may be provided in some embodiments to calculate CCDF related measurements. Also provided are methods of making power statistic measurements.


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