The Cereus Engine

The Cereus Engine is Cereus Ultrasonics' proprietary ultra-wide band acoustic technology that significantly improves ultrasonic performance in terms of accuracy, resolution, and speed of interpretation. It is described as a step change in performance that involved re-evaluating the complete acoustic system, including the production, transmission, and reception of the analog pulse, as well as the physical characteristics of different acoustic mediums and the processing of the digitized signals.

The key innovations of the Cereus Engine are:

1. Removing unwanted electromechanical effects (distortion, standing waves, acoustic inaccuracies, and reflections) introduced by the transducer itself.
2. Developing methods to render the transmission medium acoustically 'invisible'.
3. Capturing information utilizing both the time and frequency domains at higher fidelity than ever before, taking advantage of modern computational power.

The Cereus Engine works by analyzing the transducer characteristics from a simplified Mason model perspective and optimizing them in the hardware domain. It achieves wider bandwidth and constant amplitude across this bandwidth through the design and manufacture of components that control the transducer and software generation of optimized transmit waveforms. Similar processes optimize the receive side of the system.

Overall, the Cereus Engine provides ultra-high-fidelity ultrasonic acoustic solutions that vastly increase the fidelity and clarity for inspection and diagnostic imaging, enabling improved existing applications and pioneering new solutions and services across various sectors.