Rodger Hosking, Vice-President & Cofounder, Pentek, Inc.

• High-Speed, Real-Time Recording Systems (Third Edition)

  Rodger H. Hosking Pentek, Inc,

  In today's world of high-speed A/D converters operating in the gigahertz range, real-time signal recording has become a challenging task that requires specialized hardware and intelligent application software. When designing a real-time recorder capable of streaming sustained data to disk at rates of up to 3 GB/sec and higher, the system developer has to consider the limitations presented by the recorder's operating and file systems, the limitations of disk drive technology, the hardware interfaces, and the RAID controller technology.