"eye pattern" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: eye patterns [plural]
Etymology: A binary signal passed through an LC lowpass filter looks like a row of eyes. Head templates: {{en-noun}} eye pattern (plural eye patterns)
  1. (electronics) An oscilloscope display of a data signal passed through a transmission line, clocked synchronously to the data symbols; used to analyze the quality of transmission. Wikipedia link: eye pattern Categories (topical): Electronics Synonyms: eye diagram Translations (oscilloscope display): diagrama d'ulls [masculine] (Catalan), silmäkuvio (Finnish), diagramme de l’œil [masculine] (French), Augendiagramm [neuter] (German)

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