To implement a single-chip ultrasonic imaging solution, on-chip signal processing may be employed in the receive signal path to reduce data bandwidth and an output data module may be used to move data for all received channels off-chip as a digital data stream. The digitization of received signals on-chip allows advanced digital signal processing to be performed on-chip, and thus permits the full integration of an entire ultrasonic imaging system on a single semiconductor substrate. The on-chip digitization of received signals also enables the on-chip integration of ultrasound processing and/or pre-processing to reduce the burden on off-chip computing. Data compression architectures are disclosed to facilitate the transfer of data off-chip as a digital data stream in accordance with the bandwidth requirements of standard commercially-available output interfaces.為了實施單晶片的超音波成像的解決方案，晶片上的信號處理可被採用在接收信號的路徑中以降低資料頻寬，並且一輸出資料模組可被用來以一數位資料串流來將所有接收的通道之資料移動到晶片外。接收到的信號之晶片上的數位化係容許先進的數位信號處理能夠在晶片上加以執行，並且因此允許一整個超音波成像系統能夠完全整合在單一半導體基板上。接收到的信號之晶片上的數位化亦致能超音波處理及/或預處理之晶片上的整合，以降低在晶片外的計算上之負擔。資料壓縮架構係被揭示，以使得資料根據標準的市售輸出介面的頻寬需求而以一數位資料串流傳輸到晶片外變得容易。
