be impractically large bulky and inflexible transducer handle 14 includes 120 sub arrays connected to 30 integrated circuits 34 1 34 2 34 30 by 3000 connections 32 transducer cable 16 includes 120 output wires all labeled 36a providing outputs from the integrated circuits and includes 24 control and power supply wires all labeled 36b each integrated circuit 34 may include a set of digital pulse generators that generate a 200 nsec wide transmit pulse and high voltage driver circuits that amplify the transmit pulse to 170 volts used to excite the transducer element to emit ultrasound each integrated circuit may also include low noise receive preamplifiers an analog delay circuitry to perform the intra group receive beamforming and a digital control circuitry the low noise receive preamplifiers preamplify the transducer signal and provide the preamplified signal to the delay circuitry that performs intra group receive beamforming by applying selected delay values to the signals the total power dissipated by the transmit and receive intra group elements is under 2 watts fig2 is a block diagram of imaging system 10 having transducer array 30 fig1 a divided into m transmit sub arrays 30a connected to m intra group transmit processors and n receive sub arrays 30b connected to n intra group receive processors specifically transmit sub arrays 31 1 31 2 31 m are connected to intra group transmit processors 38 1 38 2 38 m respectively which in turn are connected to channels 41 1 41 2 41 m of a transmit beamformer 40 receive sub arrays.