Attachment 1 - Specifications.pdf

Requirements / Specification Document

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TITLE: Spectroscopy IMS (Ultrasound Controller System)

Requesting Laboratory / Division / Group:

Communications Technology Laboratory Radio Frequency Technology Division Radio Frequency Electronics Group (672.01)

General Statement of Need:

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), CTL/RFT, in Boulder, CO has a project funded by the Innovations in Measurement Science Program to build an electric-acoustic spectrometer to measure intermolecular interactions. There is an urgent need for new strategies to develop selective separations for small batches of high-value pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, and catalysts, because the cost to develop a large-scale separation is too high. At the cutting edge of small-batch separations research, chemists control intermolecular interactions to improve the separation efficiency, yield, and purity of the target molecule.

The spectrometer works by applying both electric and acoustic waves to test a solution in a microfluidic channel (requires new acoustic-microwave capabilities). The key idea is that an electric signal probes the solution while an acoustic signal perturbs it, allowing us to measure a capacitance that oscillates at the acoustic frequency. The acoustic wave applies a local pressure that increases and decreases over a wavelength, changing the distribution of the ion pairs and their free energies and kinetics of formation. This change in kinetics provides selectivity since different ion-pair species require different amounts of time to form. The acoustic wave also changes the capacitance, because each ion-pair species has a different dipole moment and electrical relaxation time. We measure this time-dependent capacitance and convert it to linear and nonlinear dielectric constants (i.e., susceptibilities) to produce an electric-acoustic spectrum.

To this end, we require an ultrasound control system to provide broadband RF control for transmitting and receiving ultrasound signals and controlling the behavior of ultrasound transducer arrays. The dynamic nature of the testing requires the ultrasound to accept (slave) or transmit (master) trigger signals to facilitate timing of data collection among different electrical, acoustic and optical sensors. The information from these measurements will be utilized to develop constitutive equations and models of the fluid dynamic response and the intermolecular interactions in solution.

Items and Ancillary Services:

Item 1: Ultrasound Controller System Quantity: 1 EA Specifications: 1.1 System must come with transducer control capabilities and data acquisition software.

1.2 System must have the ability to use transducers with up to 256 transmit and receive elements.

1.3 System must have the ability to use transducers with frequency range from 0.5 MHz to 25 MHz.

1.4 System must sustain pulse duration of more than 10

milliseconds.

1.5 System must at a minimum control voltage 3 V to 190 V with 0.5

V steps.

1.6 System must have a current maximum per channel 2 Amps.

1.7 System must have ability to support commercially available linear, convex, and volumetric transducers with bandwidth from 1 MHz to 25 MHz.

1.8 System must have ability to support commercially available high frequency focused ultrasound transducers in the frequency band 0.5 MHz to 4.0 MHz.

1.9 System must have ability to define an arbitrary waveform on each channel

1.10 System must have user access to software parameters to

change imaging mode operating parameters, see transmit and receive specifications.

1.11 System must have parallelized beamforming capability with user access to parameters.

1.12 System must have user access and control of beamforming

algorithms.

1.13 Systems must have self-check utilities to identify hardware faults.

1.14 Systems must have limit checking for high transmit energy levels and preventing transducer damage.

1.15 System must have at a minimum 14-bit A/D converters with programmable sample rate (minimum of 50 MHz).

1.16 System must have support for 128 channel and 256 channel transducers.

1.17 System must have 120 V or 220 V power supply.

1.18 System must have Universal Transducer Adapter configuration.

1.19 System must have ability to create scripts that set imaging parameters and acquisition parameters using MATLAB, C++, Python, or R languages. Example scripts for the user with beam steering and synchronization with other instruments must be made available.

1.20 System must be portable with maximum weight of 100 kg.

1.20 System must have minimum transmit frequency range of 1 MHz to 20 MHz.

1.22 System must have tristate drive (+V, -V, ground).

1.23 System must have focal delay 0 microseconds to 50

microseconds with minimum 6 nanosecond resolution or better.

1.24 System must have control the transmission parameters on each channel:

(1) Tri-state transitions with a maximum of 5 nanosecond spacing (200 MHz rate),

(2) Long ultrasound burst minimum 10 millisecond or better,

(3) Program pulse: amplitude 5-90 Vpp.

(4) Program pulse: center frequency, pulse width, pulse length, delay.

(5) Program pulse: pulse width (minimum 15 nanoseconds, maximum 700 nanoseconds).

(6) Ability to define an arbitrary waveform on each channel.

1.25 System must have a receive frequency range of 1 MHz to 27 MHz.

1.26

System must have user configurable RF data digital filters including a low pass anti-aliasing filter (cutoffs 5 MHz to 30 MHz) and a high pass filter (0.1 MHz to 0.25 MHz).

1.27 System must be able to put the transducer in transmit-only mode and receive-only mode.

1.28 The system must be able to operate as master or slave to receive or transmit a trigger signal for timing with other acquisition equipment such as vector network analyzers and spectrum analyzers.

1.29 The system must have minimum one trigger input, programmable.

1.30 The system must have minimum one trigger output, programmable.

1.31 The system must have the capability to phase lock with multiple ultrasound systems for separate transmit and receive.

1.32 The system must be able to conduct digital averaging, digital filtering, digital subtraction of data channels during acquisition.

1.33 The system must be able to accumulate a minimum memory 32 MB per channel or better.

1.34 The system must have a data transfer rate minimum of 4 GB/s when transferring from controller to storage system.

1.35 System shall include computer to control the ultrasound system, and all relevant software.

Item 2: Linear Array Transducer (new) Quantity: 1 EA Specifications: 2.1 Minimum 192 elements.

2.2 Frequency range: 5 MHz to 11 MHz.

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The vendor shall provide, at a minimum, a one-year warranty for the equipment. The warranty shall cover all parts, labor and travel.

The warranty shall commence upon successful completion of delivery and acceptance of instrument. If there is a problem with the instrument related to materials or workmanship; the labor, travel, and spare parts required to fix the instrument will be included.

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