Waveform Shape Data Publishing System for Signal Generators
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is no systemized method for organizing, defining, or publishing new, uncommon, or previously non-existent waveforms for waveform signal generators, limiting their functionality and effectiveness in simulating real-world signals for monitoring and testing purposes.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for searching, writing, editing, and publishing waveform shape information, allowing users to define waveforms from customer-input parameters, generate a family of related shapes, and publish them in data files, enabling users to search for waveforms based on specific characteristics and parameters.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If waveform signal generators contain only pre-defined digitized waveforms in memory, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability and versatility are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-computing and storing waveform shape information in a database before runtime. Waveform characteristics are calculated and organized in advance using mathematical models, allowing the generator to retrieve and combine pre-defined shape data rather than computing complex waveforms in real-time. This resolves the contradiction by providing waveform variety through pre-prepared data while keeping the actual device relatively simple.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary database that stores waveform shape information between the computational models and the actual waveform generation process. This intermediary layer contains pre-calculated shape data that can be efficiently retrieved and combined to generate diverse waveforms, reducing the need for complex real-time computation in the waveform generator itself while maintaining high adaptability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a comprehensive database of waveform shapes is created and stored, then waveform variety and adaptability improve, but loss of time for searching and retrieving specific waveforms increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the comprehensive waveform database into organized categories and subcategories based on waveform characteristics, applications, and parameters. This structured segmentation allows for efficient searching and retrieval by narrowing down the search space, reducing retrieval time while maintaining comprehensive waveform variety through the organized database structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual or mechanical searching methods with automated computational search algorithms that can quickly query the waveform database using mathematical criteria and parameter matching. This substitution of automated information retrieval systems dramatically reduces the time required to locate specific waveforms while maintaining full access to the comprehensive database.
3Ease of operation
If waveform shape information is published in books and data files, then ease of operation and accessibility improve, but device complexity for managing and publishing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies copying by creating standardized data file formats that replicate waveform shape information in a portable, publishable form. Instead of requiring complex publishing infrastructure, the system generates copyable data files containing waveform definitions that can be easily distributed, stored, and loaded into waveform generators, greatly simplifying the publishing process while improving accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses parameter changes by transforming waveform shape information into standardized parameter sets that define waveform characteristics in a consistent, machine-readable format. This parameterization allows for easy manipulation, storage, and publication of waveform data without requiring complex publishing systems, as the standardized parameters can be directly utilized by waveform generation software and hardware.
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AI summary
System and method are provided for searching, writing, editing, and publishing waveform shape information. A publishing module provides a shape data file from sets of parameters. Each set of parameters comprises a full scale value (FSy) for a yValue defined by a shape code value; a maximum value for binary file data values, each binary file data value having a number of bits, the maximum value being less than the number two raised to the power of the number of bits of the binary file data values; a full scale file data value, the full scale value being less than the maximum value for the binary file data values and equal to an integer multiple of FSy; and the binary file data values corresponding to the yValues calculated by multiplying the yValue by the full scale file data value divided by FSy.