VMETRO, a premium provider of embedded, real-time boards and sub-systems based on open standards like VME, PCI, CompactPCI and RACEway, today announced that Syracuse Research Corporation of Syracuse, New York has chosen VMETRO to provide a digitizer and recording system capable of sustained data recording rates of 720 MS/s and scalable to 2 GS/s.
“We chose VMETRO because they offer a complete and scalable solution that provides us with reduced time-to-market,” said Jerry Carges, Senior Engineer at Syracuse Research Corporation. “We have been very pleased with VMETRO and would consider them again for future projects.”
The digitizer and recording system comprises a SC240 VME-based digitizer for analog to digital conversion, Open MDR VME-based data recorders for recording digitizer data streams, an Open Marlin PC-based data recorder for recording GPS metadata, as well as high-performance Fibre Channel SAN (Storage Area Network) based storage arrays used for data storage. System control is provided by the Open Marlin via a browser-based GUI. The system is distinguished by its ease of use, powerful high-speed sustained recording capability and its highly flexible SAN architecture which allows scaling without the need for fork-lift upgrades. Coupled with the performance capabilities of Acqiris� Streamer-Analyzer technology, this system can be easily scaled to support sustained data recording performance of 2GS/s.
“Using VMETRO�s Open Recorder and Fibre Channel SAN products we are able, in a matter of weeks, to deploy a browser driven GUI that manages our data recorders and SAN along with 3rd party digitizer and GPS card,” said Tom Bohman, VMETRO�s Vice President of Business Development. “For our customer, this means dramatically reduced cost and time-to-market not to mention easy scalability to three times the current performance requirement.”
“The COTS market has an ongoing need for better and faster data acquisition systems,” said Didier Lavanchy, Vice President of Marketing at Acqiris. “VMETRO is a long-time leader in providing embedded, high-performance systems and components and we are confident that our Waveform Digitizer products will meet those performance requirements.”