L-Band Radar Recorder
System 2217
The System 2217 is a sophisticated data acquisition system that is designed to record L-band radar signals for analysis. In operation, between two and sixteen independent intermediate frequency analog signals are recorded to a Fibre Channel RAID storage unit. An external sample clock running at up to 105 MHz synchronizes all sixteen channels and a low-voltage TTL signal is used to gate the acquisition.
The System 2217 provides application graphical user interface (GUI) utilities for capturing data from the A/D converters, recording the data to RAID, and archiving the data to files on the host computer.
Features:
- Accepts up to 16 analog inputs with a bandwidth up to 50 MHz
- Can directly record any combination of up to 16 WB channels or 256 NB channels
- Trigger capability with range/gate information from radar
- Can perform a variety of signal processing or data packing algorithms in the FPGA and/or the Power PC
- Can handle much faster burst to local RAM and 7 Tbytes (or greater) of RAID
Technical Specifications Summary:
Number of Channels:
2 to 16
Input Bandwidth:
50 MHz
Number of WB/NB Channels:
16WB or 256NB
Number of A/D Bits:
14
SNR:
72 dB minimum
SFDR:
100 dBFS (two tone)
Processing Power:
1 to 3 million gate FPGA per channel pair
1.3 GHz, 3.0 GFLOP Processor
per channel pair
Algorithms Supported:
AM, FM, USB, LSB, CW+BFO
Storage Capacity:
1 Gbyte of RAM per 2 channels and 3 Tbytes in a single RAID
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