Please note: license is needed to unlock TIE option.
TIE measurement uses continuous back-to-back time-stamping to observe slow phase shifts (wander) in nominally stable signals during extended periods of time. The measurement itself is performed the same way as Frequency/Period Average but different processing is applied.
TIE is only applicable to clock signals, not data signals. Monitoring distributed PLL clocks in synchronous data transmission systems is a typical application.
The nominal frequency of the signal under test can be either manually or automatically set. Auto detects the frequency from the first samples, and rounds to number of digits set by the user (5 by default). TIE is measured as the period deviation of the input signal from the “ideal” reference period, and the accumulated deviation, up or down, is calculated for each Sample Interval, and displayed.
4 input signals can be measured in parallel. Minimal sample interval is 50 ns. Up to 32 million samples total can be measured in a single measurement session. Resolution is 12 digits per 1 s of gate time (Sample Interval).
TIEA(B/D/E)(i) = TSCHx (i)-TSCHx (1)-(((EVENT_CNTCHx (i)-EVENT_CNTCHx (1))/F_ref)
Figure 36. TIE measurement