Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Universal input and output interface
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Application No.: US15532675Application Date: 2014-12-03
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Publication No.: US10014872B2Publication Date: 2018-07-03
- Inventor: Alan Carroll Lovell , Bruce Henderson
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US VA Charlottesville
- Assignee: GE INTELLIGENT PLATFORMS, INC.
- Current Assignee: GE INTELLIGENT PLATFORMS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US VA Charlottesville
- Agency: GE Global Patent Operation
- Agent Scott R. Stanley
- International Application: PCT/US2014/068302 WO 20141203
- International Announcement: WO2016/089384 WO 20160609
- Main IPC: H03M1/02
- IPC: H03M1/02 ; H03M1/00 ; H03C3/00 ; G01K7/16 ; G01K7/02

Abstract:
Provided is programmable circuit for interfacing with a field device. The circuit includes only one analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to receive from the field device one from the group including a current signal and a voltage signal. The received one signal has frequency shift keying tones (FSK) superimposed thereon, the ADC being configured to extract information from the received one signal and the FSK tones simultaneously. Also included is only one digital-to-analog converter configured to drive an output signal to the field device, the output signal (i) including one from the group including a current signal and a voltage signal and (ii) being summed with an FSK-modulated signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170366196A1 UNIVERSAL INPUT AND OUTPUT INTERFACE Public/Granted day:2017-12-21
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