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Modern PC hardware is real RF voodoo these days:
DDR5 runs at 5+ GHz, PCIe 5.0 runs at 16 GHz (!!), networking/SFPs running at 26+ GHz, often using advanced modulation like PAM4.

All of those ultra high speed links are doing some form of equalization/link training and their hardware is very often capable of measuring/reporting eye diagrams.
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Manawyrm · 10w
Very few devices are capable of reporting these stats, though. Some Mellanox NICs can, some Ampere server CPUs can. Why isn't there tooling to view/check the link budgets/eye diagrams on (for example) regular AMD CPUs? I'm sure it exists, just hidden away under NDA. Being able to measure, plot and ...