GE HEALTHCARE
DIRECTION FC091194, REVISION 11 VIVID 7 SERVICE MANUAL
Chapter 5 - Components and Functions (Theory) 5 - 13
5-3-9-6 Signal Path Out from the Beam Former Boards
• The output from the BF#2’s Beamadders is fed to the RF and Tissue Processor board (RFT) on
units with Front-End version 1, and to the Radio Frequency Interface (RFI) board on units with
Front-End version 2.
Figure 5-9 Receiver Signal Path
RFT - Radio
Frequency &
Tissue
SDP -
Spectral
Doppler
IMP -
Image Port
Motherboard connector
to Internal I/O module
VME-bus
Doppler Audio
S-Video/CVideo replay (from VCR)
To/From
FEC
Digitized received
ultrasound signals
from Beam Former
To Back-End
Processor
PC2IP bus
(Digital Video Data)
PipeLink
PipeLink
BF64