LONGMONT, Colorado, April 19, 2005 – Conduant
Corporation (www.conduant.com), the leading developer of
direct-to-disk, long duration recording and playback systems, today
introduced the Conduant FPDP Digital I/O Board for the PCI Bus, the
first in the industry. The new board provides 200 megabytes per second
of sustained digital I/O and numerous features, such as data forking,
for a wide array of configurations to meet demanding data acquisition
requirements.
The Conduant FPDP Digital I/O Board features dual FPDP interfaces
and a universal 64-bit PCI interface. Conduant’s newest board can be
used to capture one or two FPDP input streams into a standard PC and
capture 32 bits/4 bytes of parallel data at up to 50 MHz via standard
FPDP Protocol (www.fpdp.com).
“The Conduant FPDP Digital I/O Board enhances Conduant’s reputation
as an innovator,” said Tom Skrobacz, Vice President of Business
Development. “We solve the problem of interfacing FPDP systems with
the PCI bus. With each new product, Conduant increases the options for
our government, scientific research and commercial customers.
Conduant’s technology is the only direct-to-disk solution for the PCI
and CompactPCI/PXI bus that makes possible a wide variety of digital
I/O architectures to meet any project requirements.”
The Conduant FPDP Digital I/O Board features 132 MB/second sustained
throughput in data forking mode. It supports standard FPDP protocol
and connectors (ANSI/VITA 17-1998). Users may choose either a single
or dual FPDP input function. The Conduant FPDP I/O Interface Board
operates in Windows NT/2000/XP and Linux environments.
The Conduant FPDP Digital I/O Board is priced at $4,980 MSRP and is available 30 days after receipt of order.
Conduant’s Market and Customers
Conduant sells to government prime contractors, systems integrators,
original equipment manufacturers and end users. Key applications
include: radio astronomy, radar/sonar gathering, digital signal
processing, GPS downloads and other instrumentation applications.
Conduant technology is also used in high-resolution imaging, digital
cinematography, and atmospheric applications as well.
Conduant’s customers include the MIT Haystack Observatory, NRAO
(National Radio Astronomy Observatory), Raytheon, Motorola, TRW,
Boeing, Sandia National Labs, US Navy, NASA Ames Research Center,
Applied Signal Technology, National Instruments, Georgia Institute of
Technology and many others.
About Conduant
Conduant Corporation (http://www.conduant.com),
founded in 1996, develops the StreamStor™/Big River families of PCI and
CompactPCI disk controllers for high-speed recording and playback of
digital data. Solutions are available in Windows, Linux and VxWorks
environments and are used in scientific research, military, aerospace
and instrumentation applications. Conduant's products are guaranteed
and will sustain data rates up to and beyond 400 MBytes/second. In
2004, Conduant ranked 172nd in Inc. Magazine's Inc. 500. It
ranked 9th in the Deloitte and Touche Fast 50 in Colorado and 228th in
Deloitte"s Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the fastest growing
technology companies in North America. Conduant is a privately held
company located in Longmont, Colorado.