EQUIPMENT DESIGN AND TESTING USING IN-SITU ON-DIE TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY

    公开(公告)号:US20240329110A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-03

    申请号:US18128942

    申请日:2023-03-30

    申请人: XILINX, INC.

    IPC分类号: G01R31/11 G01R31/52

    CPC分类号: G01R31/11 G01R31/52

    摘要: Using “in-situ on-die time-domain reflectometry (TDR)” with data signal paths of integrated circuits, printed circuit boards, and data processing equipment and systems allows testing, verification and troubleshooting of data channel signal path impedance variations including the package, escape routing, socket, board, and cable/connectors provides fast characterization thereof. Operation of “in-situ on-die TDR” uses existing analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and data transmitter (TX) drivers of an integrated circuit to act as a TDR sampling head by performing a user interface-based TDR sampling with a step-waveform generated by an integrated circuit TX driver. Then sampling the step-waveform with the ADC of the integrated circuit using spline interpolation to obtain the over-sampled waveform. Once the sampled step-waveform is obtained, the TDR profile of the sampled data channels may be calculated. Large amounts of impedance variation data may thus be collected during either integrated circuit manufacturer or customer-built data communications channel testing.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF IDENTIFYING ERRORS IN RF CABLING USING SYSTEM LEVEL DISTANCE TO FAULT TEST

    公开(公告)号:US20240319254A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-26

    申请号:US18613205

    申请日:2024-03-22

    申请人: ECSite, Inc.

    IPC分类号: G01R31/08 G01R31/11

    CPC分类号: G01R31/088 G01R31/11

    摘要: Systems and methods of identifying errors in RF cabling using system level distance to fault. A method of determining system level RF health in an RF deployment, the method including predicting an RF health of the deployment based on a known attribute of the deployment; receiving a distance to fault (DTF) measurement from the deployment, wherein receiving the DTF measurement includes: transmitting a test signal into a cable associated with the RF deployment; and receiving a return signal from the cable, the return signal including a reflection; comparing the predicted RF health to the received DTF measurement; and identifying mismatches between the predicted RF health and the received DTF measurement based on the comparing.

    Method for reducing the peak power of a multi-carrier reflectometry signal

    公开(公告)号:US12000880B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-04

    申请号:US17621578

    申请日:2020-06-11

    IPC分类号: G01R31/11

    CPC分类号: G01R31/11

    摘要: A method for generating a reflectometry signal intended to be injected into a transmission line in order to identify the presence of at least one possible fault on the line, the method includes the steps of: generating a first multi-carrier digital signal on a first set of frequency carriers, generating a second corrective multi-carrier digital signal on a second set of frequency carriers separate from the first set, summing the first digital signal and the second corrective digital signal so as to generate a reflectometry signal, normalizing the frequency carriers of the reflectometry signal, the second corrective digital signal being determined so as to reduce the peak to average power ratio of the reflectometry signal with respect to the first digital signal.

    SYSTEM FOR MONITORING A SUPPLY LINE OF AN ELECTRICAL MACHINE FED FROM A FREQUENCY CONVERTER

    公开(公告)号:US20240168076A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-23

    申请号:US18272827

    申请日:2022-01-13

    发明人: Stefan Hilsenbeck

    IPC分类号: G01R31/11 G01R31/42

    CPC分类号: G01R31/11 G01R31/42

    摘要: A device for monitoring a supply line of a frequency converter-fed electrical machine is used to predict failure, wear and/or ageing of the electrical supply line. The electrical supply line is designed and installed to connect an electrical machine in an industrial machine or plant or in a land or aircraft vehicle to a frequency converter. The frequency converter is designed and intended to supply the electrical machine with a single-phase or multi-phase alternating voltage with preferably variable voltage amplitude and pulse duration through the electrical supply line, wherein a change in pulse duration and/or voltage amplitude of the alternating voltage serves to change a speed or torque of the electrical machine. The frequency converter is set up and intended to provide each phase of the AC voltage as a sequence of square-wave pulses with a high edge steepness for feeding the electrical machine.

    SYSTEMS AND TECHNIQUES FOR LINE DIAGNOSTICS
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230375610A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-23

    申请号:US18265901

    申请日:2021-12-06

    IPC分类号: G01R31/11 G01R31/08

    CPC分类号: G01R31/11 G01R31/083

    摘要: Systems and techniques for line diagnostics. In particular, disclosed herein are systems and techniques for line diagnostics that sense a state of an electrical cable by using multiple, time-spaced stimuli and detecting their signal reflection time at different threshold levels. Information derived from multiple reflections may be used to determine cable characteristics (e.g., “wire short,” “wire open,” “correctly terminated,” etc.). The systems and techniques disclosed herein may advantageously require less complex hardware and implementation algorithms than conventional time domain reflectometry (TDR) approaches, and thus may be implemented in settings in which TDR was previously unsuitable. Further, if a cable issue is detected, the systems and techniques disclosed herein may determine the approximate location of the cable issue along the cable, accelerating correction of the issue.

    Communication Device, Communication System, and Communication Method

    公开(公告)号:US20230273251A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-31

    申请号:US18015441

    申请日:2021-07-12

    IPC分类号: G01R31/11 H04B3/46

    CPC分类号: G01R31/11 H04B3/46

    摘要: A communication device includes: a transmitting circuit that repeatedly outputs a first prescribed signal to a transmission path at a prescribed cycle; a receiving circuit that receives a second prescribed signal repeatedly output at the prescribed cycle from another communication device via the transmission path; a waveform equivalence processing unit that performs waveform equivalence processing on the signal received by the receiving circuit; a holding unit that holds parameters of the waveform equivalence processing; a storage unit that stores information on a signal propagation speed in the transmission path, duration of a prescribed cycle, and a transmission rate; and an abnormality position determining unit that calculates a distance to a position of an abnormality in the transmission path using information on the parameter caused by the abnormality of the transmission path among the parameters and the information stored in the storage unit.

    Passive Signal Propagation Delay Calculations

    公开(公告)号:US20180306849A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-25

    申请号:US15494287

    申请日:2017-04-21

    IPC分类号: G01R27/28 H04B3/46

    CPC分类号: H04B3/46 G01R27/32 G01R31/11

    摘要: Systems and methods are described for calculating a propagation delay of a transmission line. A transmitter may transmit a signal from a first end of a transmission line to a second end of the transmission line at a first time, t1. A signal reflection device (e.g., a passive resonator) connected to the second end of the transmission line may generate a reflection at a second time, t2. A reflection detector (e.g., a matched, passive resonator) at the first end of the transmission line may receive the reflection from the signal reflection device, at a third time, t3. A propagation delay calculator may calculate the propagation delay of the transmission line as corresponding to one-half of a difference between the first time, t1, and the third time, t3.