Real-Time Recording Systems Overview

• Rackmount Systems
• Portable Systems
• Small Form Factor Systems

• RTV Value Systems
• RTS Commercial Systems
• RTR Rugged Systems
• RTX Extreme Systems

• RF/IF Signal Recorders
• Digital Signal Recorders

• Videos
• Webcast Seminars
• White Paper

Pentek's Talon® high-speed real-time recording systems are designed to satisfy the requests of engineers and program managers looking for complete system solutions. And with Pentek's SystemFlow's® signal viewer and analysis tools, it couldn't be simpler. You can download the free SystemFlow® Simulator to your desktop or laptop PC.

The ArchiTek™ FPGA Development Suite allows FPGA design engineers to add custom IP to a number of Pentek's Talon recording systems. FPGA IP can be added to the recorder to provide real-time, on-the-fly digital signal processing during the data acquisition process, greatly reducing the time associated with post-processing recorded data. ArchiTek provides a simple development environment that allows engineers to add FPGA IP such as threshold detection, spectral filtering, digital downconversion, demodulation or any other digital signal processing technique required.

The Sentinel™ intelligent tracking and recording software includes a scan facility that allows the user to search for signals of interest throughout the entire user-specified spectrum. The Sentinel RF signal intelligence software is provided with control facilities available in the GUI and API.

Pentek's unique QuickPac® drive solution, included with the Talon RTX Extreme series, allows users to remove and replace large volumes of data storage with minimum down time.

The Talon Product Comparison Chart, RF/IF Signal Recorder Selector and Digital Signal Recorder Selector provide an excellent starting point to help narrow down the appropriate Talon Recording System for your application.

Talon recorders come with free lifetime email and phone support. Let our system engineers customize the perfect system for your specific needs, click here for our recording system questionnaire.

Expedite Critical Wideband Signal Recorders in Defense Applications white paper describes engineering considerations and design techniques used to capture RF signals with precise timing over long sessions that is both a necessity and a challenge for successful development, testing and deployment in many defense applications including radar, software radio and SIGINT. Many new applications produce complex wideband signals, ultrawide-bandwidth recorders, rich with design-optimizing features, can be used by engineers to characterize operation and to create new signal processing techniques that enhance system performance.

Talon Recording Systems are high speed recording systems capable of streaming data to disk in real time. Talon recorders include very large amounts of storage, allowing users to record for hours and even days contiguously.

Talon recorders include a variety of front ends that allow users to record RF/IF or digital signals. They are built in several different form factors, allowing for operation in a variety of environments.

All Talon recorders include multi-channel support. Talon RF/IF signal recorders provide multi-channel phase coherent signal acquisition. GPS information can be recorded along with the signals of interest.

Talon recorders include optional playback capabilities allowing users to retransmit the signals that have been recorded. This is especially useful in bringing real-world RF environments back to the laboratory for analysis.

Development Tactics and Techniques for Small Form Factor RF Signal Recorders white paper describes engineering considerations and design techniques used to develop small form factor rugged recorders that can handle extremely high data rates associated with very wide bandwidth RF signal recording.

It is intended to provide engineers with ideas on how to bring this capability into confined and often extreme environments while focusing on military specification compliance, SWaP and ease of use with confidence.

SystemFlow Simulator for Talon Recording Systems

Login or register to download and install the free SystemFlow® Simulator to your desktop or laptop PC. Pentek's SystemFlow Simulator software package simulates SystemFlow® recording software, which is installed on all Talon® recording systems. The SystemFlow Simulator allows you to learn how to use the Talon recording system's SystemFlow software interface before you acquire a recorder. The Simulator can simulate the operating environment of all the different Talon recorder models.

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High-Speed, Real-Time Recording Systems Handbook
Written by Rodger Hosking, Vice President and Co-founder of Pentek

In today's world of high-speed A/D converters real-time signal recording has become a challenging task that requires specialized hardware and intelligent application software. When designing a real-time recorder capable of streaming sustained data to disk, the system developer has to consider the limitations presented by the recorder's operating and file systems, the limitations of disk drive technology, the hardware interfaces, and the RAID controller technology. Fortunately for the application developer, serial fabrics have emerged to provide the high-speed interfaces required to move this data; disk drive and RAID HBAs (Host-Bus Adapters) have begun to exploit serial interfaces; finally, the emergence of SSD (Solid State Drive) technology provides a performance level previously unattainable in real-time recording systems.

Recorder Handbook

Recording System Questionnaire

Need assistance selecting the best high-speed recording system? Let our system engineers customize the perfect system for your specific needs. Complete Pentek's recording system questionnaire, by clicking here.