TELEMETRY PROCESSING SYSTEMS DESIGN TRENDS

• Main Author: Yates, James William
• Other Authors: L-3 Communications
• Language: en_US
• Published: International Foundation for Telemetering 1998
• Subjects: Flight Test; Real-Time; Ground Stations; Future Systems Design; RF; PAM; PCM; UNIX; LAN; WAN; Modeling & Simulation (M&S); High-Level Architecture (HLA); CORBA; Java; Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS)
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/609213; http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/609213

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 26-29, 1998 / Town & Country Resort Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California === Current changes in the way that large flight test systems are utilized have affected the industry’s methodology in both the early design phases and in the implementation of nextgeneration hardware and software. The reduction of available RF spectrum, the implementation of packet telemetry methods and systems, and a desire to implement commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware are only some of the considerations that telemetry systems integrators and product houses have to face. This paper describes how test methodology changes affect current large systems design at both government test ranges and at airframe/missile manufacturer test facilities. In addition, consideration is given to the area of increased processing power as it affects hardware and software design, the leveraging of such current and future telecommunications technology as network switch technology and compression, cross utilization, standardized technology, and the movement toward platform-independent software.