BITE during reception
During reception, the transceiver boards convert the measured signals from the transducer to a digital value. The beamforming program in the Processor Unit receives the sampled data from each of the ME70 transducer elements.
The sampled data from the transceiver boards signals are normally submitted to the first and then the second stage processing in the beam-forming program on the Processor Unit. After both stages have been finalized, the resulting beams are transmitted to the operational software for presentation.
When the BITE functionality is activated, the sampled element data are also transferred directly to the operational software.
When you have activated the B-Scan presentation, you may notice that the view is updated in vertical bands. These bands are identical to the data sets coming from the first stage beam-forming process.
•  Temporary loss of data from a single element is not an error. This may also be due to the load on the Processor Unit.
•  Permanent lack of data from an element indicates a malfunctioning receiver channel on a transceiver board.