Rugged ½ ATR recorder delivers digital I/O capability

PENTEK Talon RTX small form factor SFF series of high-speed, high-performance, rugged recording systems includes Model RTX 2596, capable of recording and playing back four Serial Front Panel Data Port (sFPDP) data streams. Unit is fully-deployable and suitable for capturing digitized sensor data from radar systems and RF downconverters that use the lightweight VITA 17.1 sFPDP protocol. Unit supports baud rates to 4.25 GBaud and has options for multi-mode or single-mode optical interfaces. The VITA 17.1 specification is fully implemented, providing standard sFPDP features such as Flow Control, Copy/Loop Mode and CRC error checking.