1.4 Duty Cycle Measurements

This section describes how to measure the duty cycle of a waveform. The majority of the modules listed in section Pulse Measurement have already measured the period and pulse. Only a ratio between the two is needed in order to calculate the duty cycle.

Duty cycle measurements are inherently accurate because it is the ratio of two numbers — the pulse and period. Absolute errors in the pulse measurements are canceled by performing the division.