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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2017
General Radar Corp., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dmitry Turbiner, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jon Williams, San Francisco, CA (US);
General Radar Corp., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the invention provide improvements to electromagnetic and other wave-based ranging systems, e.g., RADAR or LIDAR systems, of the type having transmit logic that transmits a pulse based on an applied analog signal. The improvements are characterized, in part, by a SERDES having a serializer (a/k/a a 'transmit side') that is coupled to the transmit logic. The serializer has (i) an input to which a pattern on which the pulse is based is applied and (ii) an output from which a serialization of the pattern is applied to the transmit logic. The improvements are further characterized in that the SERDES has deserializer logic (a/k/a a 'receive side') that is coupled to receive logic and that deserialize a received “analog” signal containing possible reflections of the pulse. According to various aspects of the invention, the transmit and/or receive logic can include circuitry for directionally steering pulses transmitted into the environment and/or the directional sensitivity of the system to possible reflects of those pulses.