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| 7397865 | Systems and methods of using IQ modulation for calibration or measurement A system analyzer may generate an estimated frequency response of a device, system, communication medium, or combination thereof by utilizing a stimulus signal that is robust against IQ modulator impairments. A stimulus generator may be used to generate a plurality ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7323673 | Modulated laser light detector with discrete fourier transform algorithm A modulated laser light detector that converts laser light energy into electrical signals which exhibit a frequency that is substantially the same as the laser light modulation frequency, in which these signals allow the detector unit to determine a position where t... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319936 | Instrument with interface for synchronization in automatic test equipment A test system with multiple instruments. Some instruments act as controller instruments and others act as controlled instruments. Each instrument includes a clock generator that synthesizes one or more local clocks from a reference clock. The reference clock is a re... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7310581 | Bulk material analyzer system A real-time bulk material analyzing system is disclosed for analyzing the elemental characteristics of bulk material passing by the system on a moving conveyor belt. An exemplary embodiment includes a source of illumination emitting white light for exciting bulk mat... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7292956 | Federated sensing, analysis, summarization, and sharing of data for healthcare A method and system is provided for management of medical data from a network of devices. The network of devices may include federated sensors that collect and forward medical data pertaining to an individual or biological specimen. The federated sensors or a centra... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7257497 | Sequential frequency band acquisition apparatus for test and measurement instruments An acquisition apparatus for a test and measurement instrument includes an input to receive an input signal, a digitizer to digitize a selected signal, a bypass path to selectively couple the input to the digitizer, a frequency shift path to frequency shift the inpu... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7248987 | Signal processing system for sensor A signal processing system for a sensor for judging whether an event to be detected has occurred on the basis of a frequency of a sensor output includes a converting device for converting the sensor output into a square wave, a presuming device for presuming whether... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7239673 | Optical reception apparatus An optical receiver includes a soft-decision deciding unit (7) for deciding an electric received signal according to a plurality of decision levels to output a multivalued decision signal, a demultiplexing unit (5) for serial-to-parallel converting the... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7209868 | Signal monitoring system and method A signal monitoring system includes four sensors, a multiplexer, a signal converting circuit, and a monitor chip. The multiplexer is electrically connected to the sensors for receiving the signals from the sensors. The multiplexer includes two selecting ports for se... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7174279 | Test system with differential signal measurement A test system with easy to fabricate hardware to make measurements on differential signals. The two legs of a differential signal are applied to a comparator. A variable bias is introduced into the comparison operation. By taking multiple measurements with different... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171325 | Method and system for wideband device measurement and modeling The method for wideband device measurement and modeling includes: measurement of an electronic device to obtain a set of time domain raw data representing characteristics of said device; conversion of said time domain raw data into frequency domain raw data; calibra... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7116362 | Camera and computer program In a voice mode, when a shutter button of a camera is fully depressed, first and second switches are turned ON, recording of voice starts. The shutter button is released. When the shutter button is half depressed after the shutter button is released the recording of... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7107175 | Continuous digital background calibration in pipelined ADC architecture Disclosed are new methods and systems for achieving calibration in a pipelined ADC system. The methods and systems may be used to provide continuous digital background calibration in a pipelined ADC. Component mismatch error from each DAC in the pipeline is tabulate... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7087888 | Electrical division circuit for an optical encoder In an optical encoder, an output signal of the encoder and a signal inverted from the output signal are respectively inputted to one input terminal and the other input terminal of a comparator constituting a circuit for electrically decomposing the output signal of ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7079959 | High-resolution intelligent rotor machine diagnostic system and method The present invention relates to a smart system and method of performing high-resolution frequency order analysis/diagnosis on rotor, in which such system is characterized in that capable of performing order analysis via a Kalman filter or a RLS (Recursive Least Squ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7062414 | Method and apparatus for digital detection of electromagnetic signal strength and signal direction in metallic pipes and cables A new digital architecture for metallic pipe and cable locators, providing accurate estimation of the fundamental locate parameters, electromagnetic signal strength and signal direction, and utilizing a nested Digital Phase-Locked Loop (DPLL) structure is disclosed.... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7050463 | Automatic bit-rate detection scheme for use on SONET transceiver An automatic bit-rate detection scheme (30) for use in SONET/SDH transceivers (12, 14) that uses only one clocking frequency (clk), is all digital, and requires less than 250 microseconds to detect a new data bit-rate. The present invention analyzes ev... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7039540 | Apparatus, system, and method for testing an analog to digital converter An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for testing an analog to digital converter with a known analog signal applied. A first register module stores a first digitized instance of an analog signal. A second register module stores a second digitized instance o... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035756 | Continuous digital background calibration in pipelined ADC architecture Disclosed are new methods and systems for achieving calibration in a pipelined ADC system. The methods and systems may be used to provide continuous digital background calibration in a pipelined ADC. Component mismatch error from each DAC in the pipeline is tabulate... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6968305 | Circuit-level memory and combinational block modeling A method and apparatus for creating a memory model for use in modeling a physical memory of an electronic circuit design. Memory write operations to the physical memory and memory read operations are modeled in a lookup table. The number of entries in the lookup tab... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965387 | Real time data conversion for a digital display A system and method for extracting and manipulating image data is provided. A pixel panel is rotated so as to increase a resolution of a projected image. The rotation may be calculated so as to achieve a desired resolution. A portion of the image is retrieved from a... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6961669 | De-embedding devices under test A system for de-embedding electrical characteristics to obtain the intrinsic electrical characteristics of a device under test. The system includes obtaining a set of S parameter data from measurements of a thru test structure and partitioning that set into a set of... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6944569 | Method and apparatus for generating an electronic test signal The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for generating an electronic test signal, and particularly to the use of such a method and apparatus for calibrating meters used to measure electrical characteristics such as voltage, current, phase angle an... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6937941 | Impulse monitoring system: apparatus and method A system for determining impulse events of an asset by sampling and digitizing a complex signal sensed by a transducer monitoring the asset into a digitized signal with a sampling device operatively coupled to the transducer, transforming the digitized signal into a... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6922081 | Electronic circuit, sensor arrangement and method for processing a sensor signal In a first phase a first sensor signal, essentially comprising the current offset signal of the sensor, is applied to the input of an electronic circuit. The first sensor signal is fed to a first signal path and stored therein. In a second phase a second sensor sign... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6912474 | Method and apparatus for high-speed synchronous digital acquisition derived in real -time from analog samples A method and apparatus for real-time derivation of precise digital clock edges and synchronous logic samples from a digital signal having a clock channel and at least one data channel acquires a plurality of temporally offset analog samples during each of a sequence... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6856927 | Method and apparatus for the characterization of optical pulses and modulators A method and apparatus for the characterization of optical pulses and modulators includes modulating, using a modulator, a train of optical pulses, measuring a spectrum of the modulated train of optical pulses, recording the measured spectrum as an entry in a spectr... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6735543 | Method and apparatus for testing, characterizing and tuning a chip interface An inter-chip line transmission circuit in a transmitting chip and complementary receiving circuit in a receiving chip provide the capability to characterize the inter-chip interface by separately generating identical pseudo-random test data at both chips, comparing... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6711509 | Impulsive transient hardware simulation An on-board self test system for an electrical power monitoring device includes a test signal circuit in an electronic circuit of the monitoring device, and responsive to a programmable test input signal for producing an analog signal simulating an electrical power ... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6697743 | Apparatus for measuring intake air flow of internal combustion engine An apparatus for measuring an intake air flow of an internal combustion engine, wherein presence of a backflow is determined from a waveform of the electric signal of flow detecting unit. If a backflow is present, a kurtosis is calculated. A backflow rati... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6687657 | Self-referential method and apparatus for creating stimulus representations that are invariant under systematic transformations of sensor states The inventive method and apparatus include sensory devices that invariantly represent stimuli in the presence of processes that cause systematic sensor state transformations. Such processes include: 1) alterations of the device's detector, 2) changes in t... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6622118 | System and method for comparing signals A method and system that include a first measurement signal and a second measurement signal that can be input to first and second filters. The filters can be subject to a first constraint to minimize the energy difference between the first and second meas... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6553334 | System for surveillance of spectral signals A method and system for monitoring at least one of a system, a process and a data source. A method and system have been developed for carrying out surveillance, testing and modification of an ongoing process or other source of data, such as a spectroscopi... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6549867 | Power supply feed-forward compensation technique A power supply feed-forward compensation technique using power consumption hints. One embodiment includes a power estimator to generate a power consumption hint that indicates a power consumption level of a component. A transfer function compensation circ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6531972 | Apparatus and method including an efficient data transfer for analog to digital converter testing The test system and method described herein reduces the production test time of semiconductor devices. More specifically, the apparatus method in accordance with the present invention reduces the data transfer time between the test body and the test mainf... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6522987 | Monitoring system and method implementing a percent availability test A channel plan with a corresponding test plan are implemented in connection with a plurality of nodes that communicate signals. The channel plan has one or more predefined specifications for each of one or more signal channels on each of the nodes. The ch... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6522989 | System and method for timing analysis of an integrated circuit clocked by mixed clock types A system and method for static timing analysis of an integrated circuit which is clocked via various clock signals, including phase-type and pulse-type clocks. Based upon characteristics of the clocks in relation to a reference clock signal, a timing budg... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6502050 | Measuring a minimum lock frequency for a delay locked loop A method and structure for measuring the minimum lock frequency of a delay locked loop (DLL) within a programmable integrated circuit device such as a field programmable gate array (FPGA). The device is temporarily configured such that one DLL is programm... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6473237 | Point array maskless lithography A system for performing digital lithography onto a subject is provided. The system includes a noncoherent light source for producing a first light and an optical diffraction element for individually focusing the first light into a plurality of second ligh... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6466886 | Automatic optical signal type identification method Automatic optical signal type identification method including the steps of: (a) converting an optical signal into an electrical signal; (b) storing a reference pattern dictionary with a plurality of reference patterns each uniquely identifying a different... | 10/15/2002 |
