Product category:
Sensors and Data Acquisition
News Release from: Vmetro | Subject: MDR-620
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 11 June 2003
VME-based recorder acquires at top speed
The MDR-620 is the first MIDAS data recorder product to break the 200Mbyte/s speed barrier in a standard single-board recorder.
Vmetro has released a new generation MDR (MIDAS data recorder) product - the first ever to break the 200Mbyte/s speed barrier in a standard single-board recorder MDR is a family of ready-to-run COTS recorders for FPDP, FPDP II and 2.4Gbit/s Serial FPDP intended for the embedded market and aimed at high-performance data acquisition applications such as radar, sonar, signal intelligence, image capture, wafer inspection and medical tomography
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 11 Apr 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The MDR-620 is Vmetro's latest and fastest addition to the PowerMIDAS data recorder product family with a performance range from 80Mbyte/s to the new 240Mbyte/s and prices that start at $23,000.
The new model will start shipping in July 2003 and is available in both commercial and rugged versions. Request a free brochure from Vmetro ...
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