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Re:A new transducer could dramatically lower the cost of ult... by namibj on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:35AM (#17966852)
At these low frequencies very simple oversampling Delta-Sigma ADCs work well, considering the sample rate is in the low 3-digit MHz range at most, which can easily be processed by even an 15$ FPGA that has SerDes suitable for USB3 or PCIe2 [0]. Considering you can just shift the noise out of the frequency of your ultrasound with the correct averaging filter in the FPGA to convert the 1-bit high sample rate to many-bit passband (one might want to fold the quadrature demodulator for RX phase sensitivity into this filter to save on comnpute). It would basically be a many-channel, fixed frequency (by software configuration only) RX SDR.

[0]: https://www.mouser.de/ProductDetail/Lattice/LFE5UM5G-25F-8MG...

Re:A new transducer could dramatically lower the cost of ult... by madengr on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @12:34PM (#17970478)
The clock jitter may get you. You can oversample and decimate to obtain the equivalent ENOB, but then the sample clock stability becomes more difficult and costly.