Signal & Data Recorder

  • Designed to provide high bandwidth recording to low cost COTS media
  • Continuous, “ping-pong” record/playback to disk or tape media
  • Time-synchronized, real time playback
  • Modular, distributed open architecture
  • Sustained recording at rates significantly higher than the recorder device throughput
  • Flexible signal inputs/outputs
  • High capacity storage options
  • Multi-session recording
  • Forward/Reverse tape seek to relative and absolute times
  • Tape Copy: Disk-to-Tape, Tape-to-Disk, Tape Dub
  • Data types can be individually selected/deselected for Record, Playback, and Copy operations
  • Supports multiple standard network protocols such as TCP, UDP, and CORBA
  • Can maintain a circular buffer of data on a RAID disk, maintaining several hours of data history and allowing later archival of selected periods of interest to permanent storage
  • Supports multiple acoustic sensors and ancillary platform/system data
  • Supports archiving to disk media as well as AIT3, LTO3, and LTO4 tapes

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Signal and Data Recorder

Signal and Data Recorder equipmentRecorder Functional Segment (RecFS)

The Recorder Functional Segment (RecFS) is a scalable network-based recording solution that was originally designed to record and playback high bandwidth acoustic sensor level data to/from low cost commercial media so that system developers would have the capability to use real ocean data for system development and testing well before going to sea.

Signal and Data recorder graphRecFS can be configured to support multiple acoustic sensor level data as well as select ancillary platform/system data over a variety of network protocols including TCP, UDP, CORBA, and other various flavors of middleware. RecFS supports archiving to disk media as well as AIT3, LTO3, and LTO4 tapes. RecFS can also be configured to maintain a circular buffer of data on a RAID disk, maintaining several hours of data history and allowing later archival of selected periods of interest to permanent storage. RecFS supports continuous “ping-pong” record, playback with multiple tape drives and multiple-sessions can be stored on one tape to maximize tape usage. Playback is time-synchronized and can be set to output data to the network in realtime or at other faster or slower speeds. Data types can be individually selected or deselected for Record, Playback, and Copy operations.

Screenshot of Signal and Data Recorder softwareThe RecFS was developed and deployed on Navy Surface programs that include DDG-1000, USW-DSS, TDCL, LCS, Improved Performance Sonar (IPS), Scaled IPS (SIPS), and many more. The system is used tactically onboard Naval ships to record, archive, and playback data as well as at Navy labs and other facilities to support functional segment development, full system testing, and data analysis and event reconstruction. RecFS also contains a suite of offline tools for extracting and copying data on tape for use with other software analysis tools.

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