Patent ID: 9239343
Filing Date: 2016-01-19
CPC Classification: G01R,H03H,H03M

Claim Text:
1. A distributed acquisition apparatus, comprising: a sampler component configured to receive a signal under test; a plurality of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) operationally coupled to the sampler component and configured to produce digitized samples of the signal under test; a time-interleaved acquisition processing network including a plurality of interconnected distributed acquisition components, each distributed acquisition component including: a last distributed acquisition component associated with the interleaved processing network of distributed acquisition components, the last distributed acquisition component including an acquisition memory to store a portion of the digitized samples and a second summer configured to de-interleave the digitized samples, wherein the last distributed acquisition component is configured to receive the de-interleaved digitized samples from the plurality of distributed acquisition components and output a recombined coherent waveform.