ITC/USA 2007 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Third Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 22-25, 2007 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / Migrating analog architectures and equipments to network architectures is underway all across
the globe. There is no doubt, a modern instrument must fit the network environment or simply
will not be procured. Yet, funding constraints temper wholesale changes to net-centric technologies.
The last analog stronghold in our data center is the oscillograph. Over 50 Gould TA 6000
Oscillographs reside at White Sands Missile Range. These are digital implementations of analog
recorders, hence require analog signaling. Digital telemetry data (most common format) must be
converted to analog to drive an oscillograph that converts analog back to digital to plot the data.
The oscillograph’s interface board may be “hacked” by removing the Analog to Digital Converter
(ADC) gaining direct access to the digital signal path. This idea was worth attempting as
the prospect of replacing that many recorders with the newer network driven oscillographs is
costly hence remote.
This paper’s topic is the conversion of the hardware and a discussion on software issues.
Though not pretty, it does preserve the large recorder investment for the time being. Issues with
analog signaling, such as noise, drift and ground loops are gone. A commercial ethernet to digital
adapter drives the new digital interface and transforms the recorder into an net-centric instrument.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/604410 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Guadiana, Juan, Benitez, Jesus, Tiqui, Dwight |
| Contributors | White Sands Missile Range |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © held by the author; distribution rights International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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