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News Release from: Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, Video | Subject: Osprey PCI
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 May 2005
PCI card hosts radar system front end
The Osprey PCI simplifies the integration of radar sensor systems by providing a cost-effective radar input interface compatible with Curtiss Wright's range of radar processing and display products
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has released a new PCI radar input card, the Osprey PCI, that simplifies the integration of radar sensor systems by providing a simple-to-use, cost-effective radar input interface compatible with Curtiss Wright's range of radar processing and display products.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 May 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The low power, ruggedised Osprey PCI card operates in a wide range of temperature and shock/vibration environments and is designed for applications including networked radar video servers, naval command and control display consoles, radar head monitor systems and airborne radar display consoles.
The card CAN interface to a wide variety of radars with interfaces based on ACP/ARP, serial and parallel.
In addition, a wide range of PRF rates, rotation rates and sampling frequencies are supported without any hardware reconfiguration.
The new Osprey PCI card can digitise analogue radar videos at 50MHz to 8bit precision and supports mixing between multiple analogue and digital videos.
The card also supports azimuth processing such as azimuth correlation.
Radar start, stop and reverse can be detected automatically as an aid to sector-scan processing.
An onboard PowerPC processor provides high-level control of the Osprey PCI's functions and also allows the implementation of custom radar signal processing algorithms.
The card includes special features to improve noise immunity and clutter suppression whilst ensuring that small targets are not missed.
The Osprey PCI supports Linux, Solaris, and Windows 2000 operating environments.
Host support is provided for PowerPC, Intel x86 and SPARC-based systems.
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