Etymology

eye pattern

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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The story

A binary signal passed through an LC lowpass filter looks like a row of eyes.

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