CDM2000-001-16 L-3 Communications Compact Data Manager (CDM)

The L-3 Communications GSC2000-002 Ground Support Computer System is a portable, network-based data management system for controlling a Data Acquisition System (DAS), and also providing a variety of checkout, display and real time data monitoring capabilities. The GSC2000 consists of a Panasonic Toughbook laptop with daylight readable display loaded with the Vista TEC configuration and display software, and a standalone Compact Data Manager (CDM) that provides the programming and data gateway between the GSC2000 and the DAS.

The size and network capability of the CDM allows the unit to be located and powered in either commercial (115/230VAC) or airborne (28VDC) environments. Combined into a tightly coupled system, these state-of-the-art components provide flight test engineers with powerful and convenient access for setup and evaluation of flight test data acquisition systems.

CDM2000
L-3 T&RF's CDM2000-001, compact data manager (CDM), is a miniature, network-enabled unit that has application in both commercial and flight environments for setup and control of airborne data acquisition systems.

The CDM provides control and data interfaces between the flight test engineer and the rest of a Data Acquisition System (DAS). These interfaces include RS-422 and RS-232 serial interfaces to control other DAS components, a fully programmable PCM input interface to receive data from the DAS, and a 10/100/1000 base-T Ethernet output interface to provide frame data products to the Host and other computers over a network link. The small size of the CDM allows the unit to also be used as a standalone, general purpose PCM to Ethernet converter for use with legacy PCM encoder systems.