RE: [SI-LIST] : Overshoot/Undershoot

Grebenkemper, John ([email protected])
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 18:13:07 -0600

Probably the best way to describe it is to look at points on the signal
which have a zero first derivative with respect to time. If the point
is beyond the final value, it is an overshoot. If it fails to achieve
the final value, it is an undershoot.

-John Grebenkemper
Tandem

> So for those of us who have only heard "undershoot" applied to
> negative-going overshoot, what is the correct definition of
> undershooot?
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