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Test and measurement instrument including asynchronous time-interleaved digitizer using harmonic mixing

US9432042B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 28, 2014
Grant dateAug 30, 2016
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Expiry dateMar 28, 2034

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03M1/1215
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A test and measurement instrument including a splitter configured to split an input signal having a particular bandwidth into a plurality of split signals, each split signal including substantially the entire bandwidth of the input signal; a plurality of harmonic mixers, each harmonic mixer configured to mix an associated split signal of the plurality of split signals with an associated harmonic signal to generate an associated mixed signal; and a plurality of digitizers, each digitizer configured to digitize a mixed signal of an associated harmonic mixer of the plurality of harmonic mixers. A first-order harmonic of at least one harmonic signal associated with the harmonic mixers is different from an effective sample rate of at least one of the digitizers.

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