{"schema_version":"1.0","canonical_url":"https://patentable.app/patents/US-9596160","patent":{"patent_number":"US-9596160","title":"Methods for built-in self-measurement of jitter for link components","assignee":null,"inventors":[],"filing_date":"2014-10-31T00:00:00.000Z","publication_date":"2017-03-14T00:00:00.000Z","cpc_codes":["H04L","H04L"],"num_claims":9,"abstract":"One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for built-in self-measurement (BISM) of jitter components. A built-in self-measurement controller on the host integrated circuit (and, in some cases, a slave controller on a partner integrated circuit) may be used to control various switches to form various loopback circuits. A calibrated jittery data pattern is transmitted through each of the various loopback circuits. On-die instrumentation (ODI) circuitry may then be used to measure intrinsic jitter components for each loopback circuit via data representations such as eye-diagrams, or jitter histograms, or bit error ratio bathtub curves. The intrinsic jitter for link components (i.e. the jitter components such as deterministic jitter (DJ), random jitter (RJ), total jitter (TJ)) may then be determined based on the measured intrinsic jitters for the various loopback circuits. Other embodiments and features are also disclosed."},"analysis":{"summary":null,"layman_explanation":null,"technical_analysis":null,"business_analysis":null,"faqs":null,"topics":[],"tech_cluster":null},"seo":{"title":"Methods for built-in self-measurement of jitter for link components","description":"One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for built-in self-measurement (BISM) of jitter components. A built-in self-measurement controller on the host integrated circuit (and, in so","keywords":[]},"attribution":{"source":"Patentable","source_url":"https://patentable.app","canonical_url":"https://patentable.app/patents/US-9596160","license":"CC-BY-4.0-like","license_terms":"AI-generated analysis on this page (summary, layman_explanation, technical_analysis, business_analysis, faqs) may be reused with attribution and a visible link back to the canonical URL above. Patent abstracts, claims, and bibliographic data are USPTO public domain.","required_link":"https://patentable.app/patents/US-9596160","citation_suggestion":"Patentable. \"Methods for built-in self-measurement of jitter for link components\" (US-9596160). https://patentable.app/patents/US-9596160","copyright_holder":"Nomic Interactive Technology LLC"},"links":{"html":"https://patentable.app/patents/US-9596160","json":"https://patentable.app/api/llm-context/US-9596160","site":"https://patentable.app","llms_txt":"https://patentable.app/llms.txt"},"generated_at":"2026-06-06T05:33:27.894Z"}