International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 27-30, 1997 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / For many years VME has been the platform of choice for high-performance, real-time data
acquisition systems. VME’s longevity has been made possible in part by timely
enhancements which have expanded system bandwidth and allowed systems to support
ever increasing throughput. One of the most recent ANSI-standard extensions of the VME
specification defines RACEway, a system of dynamically switched, 160 Mbyte/second
board-to-board interconnects. In typical systems RACEway increases the internal
bandwidth of a VME system by an order of magnitude. Since this bandwidth is both
scaleable and deterministic, it is particularly well suited to high-performance, real-time
systems.
The potential of RACEway for very high-performance (200 Mbps to 1 Gbps) real-time
systems has been recognized by both the VME industry and a growing number of system
integrators. This recognition has yielded many new RACEway-ready VME products from
more than a dozen vendors. In fact many significant real-time data acquisition systems that
consist entirely of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) RACEway products are being
developed and fielded today.
This paper provides an overview of RACEway technology, identifies the types of
RACEway equipment currently available, discusses how RACEway can be applied in
high-performance data acquisition systems, and briefly describes two systems that
acquiring and capturing real-time data streams at rates from 200 Mbps to 1 Gbps using
RACEway.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/607569 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | O’Connell, Richard |
| Contributors | Myriad Logic, Inc. |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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