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<p>This paper, "BER- and COM-Way of Channel-Compliance Evaluation: What Are the Sources of Differences?" won the DesignCon 2016 Best Paper Award. It analyzes the computational procedure specified for Channel Operation Margin (COM) and compares it to traditional statistical eye/BER analysis. </p>
<p>The  paper was written by Vladimir Dmitriev-Zdorov, Chuck Ferry, and Christian Filip of Mentor Graphics, and Alfred P. Neves of Wild River Technology. To read this paper, <a href="https://www.mentor.com/pcb/resources/overview/ber-and-com-channel-compliance-0d966f11-d571-4c49-83d6-02a2bad74703?clp=1&amp;contactid=1&amp;PC=L&amp;c=2016_05_16_pcb_hl_wp_ber_compliance_1of2">click here</a>.</p>