Many embedded systems designers who develop signal intelligence, Radar, Sonar or image processing applications transfer high-speed digitized data between the sensor and the processors. A significant number of these applications require a quick and cost effective way to store and retrieve captured data. Often these embedded systems also have space, weight and power requirements. To address these needs, Curtiss-Wright Controls has designed, configured and delivered a data recording solution that is able to store data to cost effective SATA solid state and rotating disk drives.
Features
- Compact Rugged Data Recorder with up to 2TB of SSD capacity
- VXS/VITA 41 recording and playback system
- Embedded storage using 6U VXS Quad 2.5” SATA solid state or
rotating hard disk drive storage
- High-speed off-load
VR-6511 Data Recorder The Vortex VR-6511 is a VME/VXS recording engine. The recording engine includes two PMC/XMC sites and an on-board PowerPC™ 440SP, with 512MB of local SDRAM. The two PMC/ XMC sites support a wide variety of I/O such as sFPDP, Gigabit Ethernet, 10GbE, and analog I/O.
The VR-6511 includes an on-board Xilinx® Virtex®-5 SX95T FPGA with 512MB of local SDRAM and eight high-speed serial links to an industry standard VXS P0 connector. The VR-6511S8 uses the Virtex-5 to implement eight SATA controllers which can be stripped together for a high-speed rugged storage system. The FPGA provides access from the PowerPC CPU to the solid state.
When Your Data Counts… Count On Vortex Recorders & Storage From the data recording and storage experts, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, the Vortex family supports applications including instrumentation recording, mission recording, SIGINT/ELINT recording plus storage for both rugged and lab environments. Our 10 years of recorders experience make your job easier. The Vortex Solid State recorders allow high-volume, continuous (streaming) data recording. With COTS configurations ready-to-go, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 10GbE, and Serial FPDP (sFPDP) protocols are recorded at line rates from sensors such as radar, sonar, FLIR, RF tuners, MRI and cameras without interruption. For custom applications, the Vortex Customer Programmable software provide users an easy to use API for creating high speed recording systems with any I/O options. Application Programming services are available upon request.
Storage provided by Curtiss-Wright Controls' VXS SATA Disk Carriers (VXS-4SSD) utilizing the VXS backplane. Each recorder engine can support up to eight SATA disks, connected one disk per P0 high-speed serial link. Each VXS- 4SSD is fitted with up to four disks.
