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Transition density estimation
Nov 26th, 2012, 8:42pm
 
May be it's a trivial question, but I'd really appreciate your comments.

Transition Density is defined as the ratio of transitions (or edges) to the number of unit intervals in a serial data stream. For instance, clock signal has a transition density of 1. For many serial communications test signals, this ratio approaches 0.5, or half as many transitions as bit intervals, but it's not always the case.

If we want to estimate the transition density of any serial data stream, or how much it is offset from 0.5,  how is it normally done?  
If there is no reference clock signal available for estimation, can we do it?

Welcome any comments or please point me to any reference which you think is related to this.

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Reply #1 - Nov 28th, 2012, 8:49am
 
Hello,
In real time you can't guarantee. In measurement it depends on the type pattern you are applying. But to make sure for min transition encoding will be used (8b/10b or 64b), otherwise CDR would be problematic.

I heard few very old standards have RZ coding, just to have .5 transition density.

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Reply #2 - Dec 10th, 2012, 9:47pm
 
Hi BackerShu,

Sure you can estimate transition density if you have recovered clock and data in the receiver.  Do you want to measure the transition density on the fly?

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Reply #3 - Dec 11th, 2012, 12:49am
 
Hello Yawei,
can you clearly, how do you estimate density from recovered data and clock?, you mean by checking BBPD output or any thing else?

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Reply #4 - Dec 11th, 2012, 1:42am
 
Hi Raj,

I think the transition density can be count if the data and clock are recovered. Some counters. Probably that is not what BackerShu needs.

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Reply #5 - Dec 11th, 2012, 2:25am
 
hello Yawei,
do you have reference on transition density, out of curiosity i am asking how people guarantee min transition for CDR in encoding?

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Reply #6 - Dec 29th, 2012, 5:47pm
 
Thanks Yawei and raja!

ywguo wrote on Dec 10th, 2012, 9:47pm:
Sure you can estimate transition density if you have recovered clock and data in the receiver.  Do you want to measure the transition density on the fly?

Yes, if both recovered clock and data are available, we can do transition density estimation by counting.
What I really want to know whether there is a possible a way to estimate the transition density to help with frequency acquisition in referenceless CDR, meaning before the CDR locks; thus recovered clock and data are not available. That's what I mean by "no reference"
The reason why I am asking this is there is a interesting paper in which a frequency acquisition is presented but its inaccuracy is limited by transition density. If you guys are interested, here is the paper.
[1] R. Inti, S. Member, W. Yin, and A. Elshazly, “CDR With Unlimited Frequency Acquisition Range and Improved Input Duty-Cycle Error Tolerance,” Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of, vol. 46, no. 12, pp. 3150–3162, 2011.
If transition density can be estimated without a reference clock, or even with a clock which has unknown relationship with the data rate, the error can be compensated.
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Reply #7 - Dec 29th, 2012, 5:52pm
 
raja.cedt wrote on Dec 11th, 2012, 2:25am:
hello Yawei,
do you have reference on transition density, out of curiosity i am asking how people guarantee min transition for CDR in encoding?

Thanks,
Raj.

Hello Raja,

I think transition density is guaranteed in Tx side with some special encoding. As I know, the way it usually is implemented is some scrambler.
Is this what  you are asking? Maybe I am missing your question~
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