DAYTON, OH – Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed subsystems for the aerospace and defense market, has announced the availability of its new Vortex SAN Recorder Kit (SRK) (www.cwcelectronicsystems.com/vortex_srk.html) software-based data recording solution for embedded defense and aerospace systems. The Vortex SRK speeds and simplifies the addition of high performance data recording and storage functionality to open standards-based laboratory and deployed systems without requiring additional system boards or using an additional system slot. The Vortex SRK is designed for use in demanding I/O intensive applications, such as signal intelligence, radar, sonar, FLIR, RF tuners, MRI and cameras and image processing, that require the high-speed transfer of digitized data between a system’s sensors and processors.
“The Vortex SRK enables system designers to add powerful recording and storage functionality into space, weight and power (SWaP)-constrained embedded systems,” said David Dietz, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems group. “In today’s high-performance processing systems, slots are at a premium. Often system designers must choose between dedicating a valuable slot for a new capability or doing without. The Vortex SRK solves this dilemma for data recording by adding the feature to existing processor cards.”
The Vortex SAN Recorder Kit (SRK) enhances overall system capability while saving valuable system slots by adding data recording and storage capabilities to the system’s existing processor card(s). The Vortex SRK is designed for use with the most popular open standard architectures, including 3U and 6U CompactPCI®, VME, VXS, VPX and OpenVPX™-based systems. The Vortex SRKs enables system designers to flexibly add data recording capabilities to their high-performance processing system at any point from development to deployment. The Vortex SRK complements Electronic System’s Vortex family of recorder and storage solutions.
Vortex SRK Features
Powerful data recorder and storage functionality
Saves valuable chassis slot
Fully-featured Vortex software – 40 man-years of Vortex software development
Powerful GUI interface
Scalable storage to meet application needs
The Vortex SRK is supported with the Vortex Graphical User Interface (GUI), which provides an intuitive and powerful method for controlling the recorder. After setting a few parameters, a recording session is started by clicking the on-screen Record button. Playback control is just as easy.
About Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems
Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems is one of the industry’s most comprehensive and experienced single sources for rugged, integrated solutions that are qualified for military platforms. Our product and service expertise includes Motion Control, Network Centric Computing, Rate Sensor Assemblies, Vehicle Management Computers, High-Speed Recording & Storage, and Electronic Manufacturing Services. The Electronic Systems group serves the defense, aerospace, commercial and industrial markets and is part of Curtiss-Wright Controls Inc. For more information, visit www.cwcelectronicsystems.com
About Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc.
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Curtiss-Wright Controls is the motion control segment of Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW). With manufacturing facilities around the world, Curtiss-Wright Controls is a leading technology-based organization providing niche motion control products, subsystems and services internationally for the aerospace and defense markets. For more information, visit www.cwcontrols.com.