Digital recorders have removable drives

Digital data recorders, with high data integrity and flexible signal interfacing, have removable drives for high security involving the acquisition of sensitive data, say from test cells.

Heim Data Systems, a leading supplier of data acquisition equipment, introduces the new GSR 'DE' Series with removable drives for high security missions involving the acquisition of sensitive data.

Ideal for ground-based telemetry, satellite downlink, and test cell recording, the easy-to-use GSR 'DE' Series features all digital recording, high data integrity, flexible signal interfacing and removable media.

The GSR 'DE' Series is an economical, rack-mounting, 256 Mbit/s digital recorder capable of simultaneously acquiring multiple streams of data from analog, digital, communications, video and avionics bus sources.

Once the data is acquired, it is recorded to storage media for later retrieval and analysis.

Data retrieval may be via real time construction of original signal sources or by direct high-speed transfer of digital data to the user's computing platform over popular bus and network interfaces.

Heim Data's new GSR 'DE' Series deploys the recorded media in an easily removable plug-in carrier.

The carrier mates with a commercially available receiver in the GSR which allows physical removal of sensitive data at the completion of a secure mission, leaving the GSR free of non-volatile signal data memory.

In addition to safe storage, the removable drives allow multiple secure and non-secure missions to be run on the same GSR by dedicating separate record media carriers to each mission.

The installation of compatible drive receivers in the user's analysis computer also provides a simple and secure means of rapid upload or download of large volumes of mission data to and from the GSR by the physical transfer of drive carriers.

The carriers can be fitted with hard disk drives or solid-state flash drives in a variety of sizes, currently up to 256GB.

The drives can be written with IRIG106 Chapter 10 format compatible data, if required.

An integrated PC is a popular option for GSRs, providing enhanced file manipulation and data distribution possibilities.

When this option is fitted, the PC hard drive is also mounted in a removable carrier to preserve the security of the GSR platform.

* About Heim Data Systems - Heim Data Systems, a leading supplier of data acquisition equipment, distributes and supports a wide range of industrial, mobile, portable, airborne and laboratory data acquisition systems.

These systems provide high quality, off-the-shelf solutions for stand-alone and computer integrated operation, suitable for flight test, range telemetry and general industrial data acquisition.

The company has supplied data acquisition systems to the US Navy, Air Force and Army for test range and operational applications.

Heim Data Systems has also equipped the automotive and aerospace industries, including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Ford, Chrysler and General Motors.

Heim Data Systems is part of the Zodiac organization, a global company with interests in the aerospace, marine, telecommunications, electronics and information technology markets.

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