In AMI, are the clock ticks reported by a buffer (and which may be used to
present a sampled eye) required to be used to sample the data for the *same*
buffer?
The clear implication in the "clock ticks" description text is that clock and
data are taken from the same buffer and same channel or data stream (though the
clock ticks may be ignored), because the data stream is assumed to contain an
embedded clock from which an explicit clock will be recovered.
However, to eventually support other architectures, would not AMI need to
support clock ticks being combined with data from separate channels, in the
case of a forwarded rather than an embedded clock?
This may be entirely at the level of the EDA tool to control or permit.
However, would not some of the time domain flows in the AMI specification need
to explicitly mention this?
Thanks in advance...
- MM
