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News Release from: PI (Physik Instrumente) | Subject: HyperBit
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 July 2006
Technology enables higher resolution D/A
converter
PI has received a United States patent for its development of an innovative means of increasing resolution in existing D/A converters, without additional hardware
PI (Physik Instrumente), a leading manufacturer of precision motion-control equipment for photonics, semiconductor and life science applications, has received a United States patent for its development of an innovative means of increasing resolution in existing D/A converters, without additional hardware The new technology will be marketed under the trade name "HyperBit"
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 29 Sep 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Licensees are sought.
HyperBit is a fundamentally flexible technology which can benefit virtually any application where the DAC update rate exceeds the responsiveness of the rest of the system.
It works equally well in open and closed-loop situations.
In closed-loop systems it can exist upstream or downstream from the servo.
HyperBit can also reduce higher-order granularity-driven artifacts.
PI USA is seeking non-competitive licensees in many fields.
Some possibilities are listed below.
+ Test and Measurement.
+ Process Control.
+ Active Optics, Beam Stabilisation and Pointing, Galvanometers.
+ Electro-Optic Devices, AOMs.
+ Fabry-Perot Cavity Tuning and Stabilisation.
+ Liquid Crystal Elements.
+ Spatial and Spectral Modulators.
+ Piezo-driven nanopositioning devices.
+ Large-Area/High-Resolution E-Beam and Ion-Beam Deflection.
+ Spectroscopy, Microscopy, AFMs, NSOM, Nano-manipulation.
+ Lithography.
+ MEMS Actuation.
+ Electrostatic, Thermal, Electromagnetic.
+ Nano-patterning.
+ Motion Control: Microsteppers, Voice-Coils.
+ Data Storage Microactuation.
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