Patents Assigned to Mani Soma
  • Publication number: 20060268970
    Abstract: There is provided a jitter measuring apparatus for measuring jitter in a signal-under-measurement, including a pulse generating section having first pulse generating means for detecting edges of the data-signal-under-measurement to output a first pulse signal having a pulse width set in advance corresponding to the edge and second pulse generating means for detecting boundaries of data sections where data values do not change in the data-signal-under-measurement to output a second pulse signal having a pulse width set in advance over the edge timings of the boundaries of the detected data sections and a jitter calculating section for calculating timing jitter in the data-signal-under-measurement based on the first and second pulse signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Applicants: Advantest Corporation, Mani Soma
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Ichiyama, Masahiro Ishida, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Mani Soma
  • Publication number: 20060184332
    Abstract: A testing apparatus for performing a testing on a device under test (DUT) is provided, wherein the testing apparatus includes a performance board on which the DUT is mounted; a main frame for generating a test signal for testing the DUT and determining pass/fail of the DUT on the basis of an output signal output by the DUT; a pin electronics which is provided between the main frame and the performance board and performs sending and receiving signals between the main frame and the DUT; a deterministic jitter injecting unit for receiving the output signal without passing through the pin electronics and inputting a loop signal, which is the received output signal into which a deterministic jitter is injected, to an input pin of the DUT without passing through the pin electronics; and a switching unit for determining whether the input pin of the DUT is provided with the test signal output by the pin electronics or the loop signal output by the deterministic jitter injecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2005
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicants: Advantest Corporation, Mani Soma
    Inventors: Masahiro Ishida, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Mani Soma
  • Patent number: 6990417
    Abstract: There is provided a jitter estimating apparatus for calculating phase noise waveform of an input signal and for estimating a peak value, a peak-to-peak value and a worst value of jitter of the input signal, and probability to generate jitter based on the phase noise waveform. Timing jitter sequence, period jitter sequence, and cycle to cycle period jitter sequence of the input signal are calculated and the peak value and the peak to peak value for each jitter, as well as probability to generate jitter may be estimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignees: Advantest Corporation, Mani Soma
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamaguchi, Masahiro Ishida, Mani Soma