International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 17-20, 1994 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / With today's telemetry systems, an hour-long analog test tape can be digitized in one
hour or less. However, the digitized data produced by today's telemetry systems is
usually not in a format that can be directly analyzed by the test engineer's analysis
tools. The digitized data must be formatted before analysis can begin. The data
formatting process can take from one to eight hours depending on the amount of data,
the power of the system's host computer, and the complexity of the analysis software's
data format. If more than one analysis package is used by the test engineer, the data
has to be formatted separately for each package.
Using today's high-speed RISC processors and large memory technology, a real-time
Flexible Data Formatter can be added to the Telemetry Front End to perform this
formatting function. The Flexible Data Formatter (FDF) allows the telemetry user to
program the front-end hardware to output the telemetry test data in a format
compatible with the user's analysis software. The FDF can also output multiple data
files, each in a different format for supporting multiple analysis packages. This
eliminates the file formatting step, thus reducing the time to process the data from
each test by a factor of two to nine.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/608577 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | O'Brien, R. Michael |
| Contributors | Loral Test & Information Systems |
| 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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