Legacy Products

Legacy Products are no longer supported by Prosync.

Viper, VIPstation™	PWM-1000	PWR/M-1000	PWR-1000	ACE Card
CTR	IDEA-FDP	TGS	Jaguar System	Panther System

The ProSync Adaptive Engineering Group’s wide variety of legacy products are deployed in Ground Stations Worldwide in support of many major Government and Commercial programs.  The information outlined below indicates the numerous capabilities of these products which enable them to support very complex and high rate processing requirements.      

20 Mbps Workstation Telemetry System
(Viper, VIPstation™)

Capabilities:

• 167/250 Mhz UltraSparc AX CPU
• Solaris 2.5 UNIX O/S
• 4 PCI Slots (10 with expansion chassis)
• Up to 20 Mbps Data Acquisition
• Up to 20 Mbps Data Simulation
• Ethernet 10/100 baseT
• Standard network & peripheral I/F options (Gigabit Ethernet, FDDI, ATM, Fibre Channel)

Customers/Programs Supported:
• ESA - RIES Simulator
• University of Chile – Data Acquisition and Command System
• NASA – Kongsberg/Lockheed Martin Data Acquisition System
• Universal Space Network – Data Acquisition System

Programmable Wideband Modulator 1 Gbps
(PWM-1000)

Capabilities:

• Wideband BPSK, QPSK & SQPSK Modulation
• Data Rates : 1 kbps to 1 Gbps NRZ Data
• RF Output Frequencies: 375 MHz, 720 MHz, 1.2 GHz, S-Band up to Ka-Band
• Stable Frequency Source down to 0.1 ppm
• Output Power: +5 dBm typical
• User Friendly Touch Screen Interface
• Remote Control via Ethernet or GPIB
• Clock & Data Interface: ECL or TTL
• NRZ Code Selection - NRZ-L, NRZ-M or NRZ-S
• RF Monitor Port
• Store & Recall System Configurations
• Doppler Simulation

Customers/Programs Supported:
• United Space Alliance – KuBand Uplink Modulator
• NSA

300 Mbps VME Telemetry System (Panther System)

Capabilities:

• 9U VME Platform
•  VxWorks RTOS
•  20 VME Slots
•  VME64, HS Telemetry backplanes
•  Up to 300 Mbps/channel (Acquisition)
•  Up to 150 Mbps/per channel (Simulation)
•  Ethernet I/F to Host Workstation
•  Many  network & peripheral I/F options

Customers/Programs Supported:
• International Space Station
• NASA Earth Observing System
• NASDA ADEOS-II Satellite

Compact Telemetry Receiver (CTR)

Capabilities:

• Receivers: Dual channel, Superheterodyne with 70 MHz IF output
• Frequency ranges: 2200-2400 MHz, 1435-1540 MHz (Other tuning ranges available)
• Frequency resolution: 100 kHz steps
• Gain Control Modes: Auto, Manual, and Hold
• AGC time constants: 5 selections from 0.01 to 100 ms
• Dynamic range: Threshold to 0 dBm
• IF filters: 300 kHz, 500 kHz, 1.0 MHz, 1.5 MHz, 2.5 MHz, 4.0 MHz, 6.0 MHz, 10.0 MHz, 12 MHz, 16 MHz, 20 MHz, and 26 MHz
• Multi-mode demodulation: AM, FM, PM, BPSK and QPSK signals
• Diversity combiner: Dual channel Maximal-Ratio Pre-Detection (min 10db improvement over existing diversity combiners for specified fade rates)
• Video bandwidths: 200 kHz, 400 kHz, 600 KHz, 800 kHz, 1.6 MHz, 3.0 MHz, 4.0 MHz, 6 MHz, 8.0 MHz, 12 MHz, 16 MHz and NTSC (video de-emphasis)
• Tape carrier frequencies: Selectable from 100 kHz to 10 MHz in 25 KHz steps
• Store Configurations: Recalls information for up to 20 stored setups per channel in non-volatile memory
• Remote control: 10/100 BaseT Ethernet and RS-232 and options for RS422 and IEEE488

Customers/Programs Supported:
• Tyndall Air Force Base
• Vandenberg AFB
• ITT Industries
• White Sands Missile Range
• Raytheon
• King Aerospace

160 Mbps Workstation Telemetry System (Jaguar System)

Capabilities:

• MIPS 180 Mhz RISC R10000 64-bit CPU
• IRIX 6.4 O/S
• 3 PCI Slots (7 with expansion chassis)
• Up to 160 Mbps Data Acquisition
• Up to 160 Mbps Data Simulation
• Ethernet 10/100 baseT
• Standard network & peripheral I/F options (Gigabit Ethernet, FDDI, ATM, Fibre Channel)

Customers/Programs Supported:
• NASA - Earth Observing System
• DOD - Space-Based Infrared System
• NASDA - Date Relay Test Satellite
• ESA – Heliosat Project

Programmable Wideband Receiver 1Gbps
(PWR-1000)

Capabilities:

• Wideband BPSK,QPSK or SQPSK Demodulation
• IF Input Frequencies: 375, 720 and 1200 MHz (maximum data rate dependent)
• IF Dynamic Range: 50 dB (0 dBm to -50 dBm)
• BER Performance: 2.0 to 3.0 dB from theoretical BPSK/QPSK BER curve
• Loop Tracking Range:1 MHz
• Bit Synchronizer: Continuously tunable from 25 Mbps to 500 Mbps per channel (NRZ Data)
• User-Friendly Touch Screen Control
• Remote Control Interface: Ethernet
• Clock &Data Output Formats: Differential ECL
• Differential Decoder Formats: NRZ-L, S or M (selectable)
• IF and VCO Monitor Ports
• Store and Recall Setup Configurations

Customers/Programs Supported:
• NASA/GSFC
• NASA/WFF
• NSA

Functionally Distributed Processor
(IDEA-FDP)

Capabilities:

• Up to 1 Gbps CCSDS & TDM Telemetry Processing & Simulation
• Storage of Data to RAID & Archive Tape Libraries with Playback Capability
• Distribution of Telemetry Data via Fibre Channel & Ethernet
• System status and control via a web browser
• Multi-Mission Support
• Single Channel or Dual Channel Support
• System Bit Error Rate is less than 10 -12 for Telemetry Simulation & Processing
• Serial Data Processor Transmit
• Serial Data Processor Receiver
• AOS Multiplexer

Customers/Programs Supported:
• NASA - Marshall Space Flight Center ISS Downlink Enhancement Architecture

Telemetry Gateway System (TGS)

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Capabilities:

• Up to 1 Gbps CCSDS & TDM Telemetry Processing & Simulation
• Storage of Data to RAID & Archive Tape Libraries with Playback Capability
• Distribution of Telemetry Data via Fibre Channel & Ethernet
• System status and control via a web browser
• Multi-Mission Support
• Single Channel or Dual Channel Support
• System Bit Error Rate is less than 10 -12 for Telemetry Simulation & Processing

Customers/Programs Supported:
• NASA – Johnson Space Center Electronic Systems Test Lab (ESTL) System
• NSA – Data Acquisition System
• NASA - McMurdo Ground Station Data Acquisition System

Programmable Wideband Modem 1 Gbps
(PWR/M-1000)

Capabilities:

• Wideband BPSK,QPSK or SQPSK Modulation/Demodulation
• IF Input Frequencies: 375, 720 and 1200 MHz (maximum data rate dependent)
• RF Output Frequencies: 375 MHz, 720 MHz, 1.2 GHz, S-Band up to Ka-Band
• IF Dynamic Range: 50 dB (0 dBm to -50 dBm)
• Output Power: +5 dBm typical
• BER Performance: 2.0 to 3.0 dB from theoretical BPSK/QPSK BER curve
• Loop Tracking Range:1 MHz
• Stable Frequency Source down to 0.1 ppm
• Bit Synchronizer: Continuously tunable from 25 Mbps to 500 Mbps per channel (NRZ Data)
• User-Friendly Touch Screen Control
• Remote Control Interface: Ethernet
• Clock &Data Input/Output ECL
• Differential Decoder Formats: NRZ-L, S or M (selectable)
• IF, VCO, and RF Monitor Ports
• Store and Recall Setup Configurations

Customers/Programs Supported:
• NASA – Solar Dynamic Observatory
• General Dynamics Corp. – KuBand Exciter System Test Equipment
• RT Logic Corp. – Project Y Wideband Receiver

ACE Card- Reconfigurable Internet Accelerator

Capabilities:

• Network performance scaling by > 10 X
• Switched Gigabit Ethernet
• OC-12/48 ATM
• Future WDM topologies
• Network computing, multi-media data & services multiply demand on server
• Reconfigurable TCP/IP
• Up to 8X performance improvement
• Offloads host processor
• Accommodates future evolution of internet
• TCP objects easily cast into ASICs

Customer/Programs Supported:
• Clemson University