Karaman, MustafaKolağasıoğlu, ErtuğrulAtalar, Abdullah2019-03-272019-03-271992-031520-6149http://hdl.handle.net/11693/50745Date of Conference: 23-26 March 1992Conference name: [Proceedings] ICASSP-92: 1992 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal ProcessingA VLSI architecture for real-time digital receive beamforming in phased array ultrasound imaging is proposed. The architecture is an inverse binary tree like structure with N stages where N is the number of array elements. The sampled signals from the phased array channels are coherently added in a pairwise manner within the stages of the architecture in a pipelined data flow scheme. The storage requirement for the synchronization of the asynchronously received samples corresponding to a focal point is significantly reduced. The architecture is modular and has a regular communication scheme which make the VLSI implementation rather easy and straightforward.EnglishUltrasonic imagingVery large scale integrationArray signal processingPhased arraysCircuitsBinary treesUltrasonic transducer arraysAddersImage reconstructionUltrasonic transducersConference Paper10.1109/ICASSP.1992.226510