AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF RF EFFECTS ON ELECTRONIC DEVICES THROUGH THE USE OF DEVICE UNINTENDED EMISSIONS
First Claim
1. An apparatus configured and operable to determine a state and/or an operation of a powered electrical device, said apparatus comprising:
- one or more antennas;
a receiver coupled to said one or more antennas and operable to receive emission(s) of electromagnetic energy from the electrical device;
an illumination device coupled to said one or more antennas so as to illuminate the electrical device with a pulse of electromagnetic energy;
a controller including;
one or more processors,a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by said one or more processors, cause said one or more processors to perform the steps of;
selecting a spectral frequency target component of said emission(s),iteratively controlling said illumination device to illuminate the electrical device with said pulse, measuring, at each iteration, a change in characteristic(s) of said spectral frequency target component of said emission(s),assigning a score value to each measurement, and iteratively effecting optimized parameter(s) of said pulse based on said score value until a final score value indicates a desired state and/or an operation of the electrical device.
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Abstract
An apparatus, configured and operable to determine a state and/or an operation of a powered electrical device, comprises one or more antennas, a receiver operable to receive emission(s) of electromagnetic energy from the electrical device; an illumination device operable to illuminate the electrical device with a pulse of electromagnetic energy; a controller including: one or more processors, a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of selecting a spectral frequency target component of the emission(s), iteratively controlling the illumination device, measuring, at each iteration, a change in characteristic(s) of the spectral frequency target component of the emission(s), assigning a score value to each measurement, and iteratively effecting optimized parameter(s) of the pulse based on the score value until a final score value indicates a desired state, operation of the electrical device.
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1. An apparatus configured and operable to determine a state and/or an operation of a powered electrical device, said apparatus comprising:
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one or more antennas; a receiver coupled to said one or more antennas and operable to receive emission(s) of electromagnetic energy from the electrical device; an illumination device coupled to said one or more antennas so as to illuminate the electrical device with a pulse of electromagnetic energy; a controller including; one or more processors, a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by said one or more processors, cause said one or more processors to perform the steps of; selecting a spectral frequency target component of said emission(s), iteratively controlling said illumination device to illuminate the electrical device with said pulse, measuring, at each iteration, a change in characteristic(s) of said spectral frequency target component of said emission(s), assigning a score value to each measurement, and iteratively effecting optimized parameter(s) of said pulse based on said score value until a final score value indicates a desired state and/or an operation of the electrical device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method of at least one of affecting determining and characterizing a state and/or an operation of an electrical device, said method comprising the steps of:
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(a) selecting a spectral frequency target within a frequency spectrum of a received emission of electromagnetic energy emitted by an electrical device, said spectral frequency target characterized by an amplitude being greater than amplitudes of neighboring frequencies within said frequency spectrum; (b) tuning a radio frequency (RF) signal based on said amplitude of said spectral target frequency component; (c) coupling said tuned RF signal to said electrical device; (d) measuring a change in a parameter of said spectral frequency target in a response to said coupled tuned signal; and (e) repeating steps (b) through (d) until said change in said parameter of said spectral frequency target is within a predetermined range. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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