US 12,087,545 B2
Radio frequency generators, and related systems, methods, and devices
Ahmed A. Hussein, Burlington, MA (US)
Assigned to Analogic Corporation, Peabody, MA (US)
Filed by Analogic Corporation, Peabody, MA (US)
Filed on Feb. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/171,829.
Application 18/171,829 is a continuation of application No. 16/731,578, filed on Dec. 31, 2019, granted, now 11,587,767.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/872,142, filed on Jul. 9, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/863,756, filed on Jun. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0197410 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. H03M 1/66 (2006.01); H01J 37/32 (2006.01); H03F 3/24 (2006.01); H03G 3/30 (2006.01)
CPC H01J 37/32146 (2013.01) [H03F 3/245 (2013.01); H03G 3/3042 (2013.01); H03M 1/66 (2013.01); H03F 2200/451 (2013.01); H03G 2201/103 (2013.01); H03G 2201/307 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a communication interface to receive one or more commands utilizing a syntax to define one or more pulsed waveforms;
a digital shaper to generate a digital waveform comprising a continuous sequence of the one or more pulsed waveforms defined by the one or more commands;
a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to generate a pulsed analog signal at least partially responsive to the digital waveform; and
a modulator to generate a pulsed radio frequency (RF) signal exhibiting an envelope waveform of the pulsed analog signal via amplitude modulation of an RF carrier utilizing the pulsed analog signal as a modulating signal.