Installation
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Installing the Waveform Monitor in a Serial Video System
The serial digital monitor can operate almost anywhere in the distribution system
due to its high impedance, bridging, loop-through inputs. This section describes
two types of connections and presents useful information on line termination.
Most serial equipment employs a receiver that regenerates an output signal, such
as the receiver shown in Figure 1–6. Routing the incoming serial signal through
one of the waveform monitor loop-though inputs and connecting the output of
the serial receiver to the other loop-through input allows you to compare the
incoming signal and the regenerated output signal.
Serial source
Waveform Monitor
(rear panel) Serial receiver
Output
Input
Serial video
output signal
SER A
Loop-through input
SER B
Loop-through input
Regenerated
serial output
Figure 1–6: Monitoring the video bit stream of a serial receiver