M2540-92000-01 A M2540 Ultrasound System Field Service Manual

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Theory of Operation: TR Boards

plugs into the distribution board. The two boards form electronic beams of the transmit and receive signals. Each TR board contains 64 transmitters and 32 preamps multiplexed into 64 receive channels. This allows multiplexing the system’s 64 active channels into 128 element arrays. Each receive channel consists of time gain compensation (TGC) amplifiers, low pass filters, 10-bit A/D converters, and one eighth of a digital beam-forming circuit. Each TR board sends on its output bus a value that is the sum of the data from its 32 channels plus its 18-bit input bus. The last TR board in this chain outputs the final summed radio-frequency (RF) data to the demodulator board.

The transmit and receive beam-forming coefficients for acoustic lines are downloaded on the coefficient bus from the BPAP board.

The BPAP board generates the timing to start and stop each firing line, and sends the transmit signal to the TR board, through the distribution board and the connector modules to the transducer. Analog drivers generate the transmitted RF data. A digital timing generator delays and times each of the analog drivers. The delay generators receive the appropriate delay values from the BPAP for each channel. The system power supply controls the amplitude of the transmitted waveform.

The received signal is preamplified, TGC amplified, low-pass filtered, and digitized (in all modes except CW). The BPAP board generates TGC control signals through the demodulator board.

After being digitized, the signal on each line is delayed appropriately. The outputs of all channels are daisy-chained together to sum the outputs. The RF data output of one TR board is the input to the next TR board, and the outputs of the TR boards are summed to form the received beam. The summed output signal (RF DATA) goes to the demodulator board.

The CW Doppler signal is mixed to an analog intermediate frequency (IF) signal. The CW

Doppler output is a single differential signal routed to the demodulator board.

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