Patent 7437624 was granted and assigned to LeCroy Corporation on October, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An apparatus for processing a data signal is provided. The apparatus comprises an acquisition unit of a test instrument for acquiring a data signal for a predetermined time, a memory of the test instrument for storing the data signal, and a clock recovery unit for recovering a clock signal from the stored data signal. A processor slices the stored data signal into a plurality of data segments of a predetermined length in accordance with the recovered clock signal.