Method For Scalable Manufacturing Of Medical Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging Systems
| Autor: | Robert N. Phelps, John C. Lazenby, David A. Petersen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Medical diagnostic
Acoustics and Ultrasonics business.industry Computer science Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Application-specific integrated circuit Scalability Hardware_INTEGRATEDCIRCUITS Ultrasound imaging Hardware_ARITHMETICANDLOGICSTRUCTURES business Hardware_REGISTER-TRANSFER-LEVELIMPLEMENTATION Computer hardware Hardware_LOGICDESIGN |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 130:3180 |
| ISSN: | 0001-4966 |
| DOI: | 10.1121/1.3662378 |
| Popis: | A plurality of application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips with different functions is provided. Each of the ASICs performs one or more functions along an ultrasound data path. The chips include communications protocols or processes for allowing scaling. For example, ASICs for backend processing include data exchange ports for communicating between other ASICs of the same type. As another example, receive beamformer ASICs cascade for beamformation. By providing ASICs implementing many or most of the ultrasound data path functions, with scalability, the same ASICs may be used for different system designs. A family of systems from high end to low-end using the same types of ASICs, but in different configurations, is provided. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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