Specifications

SimradSX90
beenspeciedandassembledbySimradtosuittheSX90sonar
requirements.ThecomputerholdsaDVDplayertobeusedfor
futuresoftwareupgrades.
Figure2ProcessorUnit
Thepurposeofthiscomputeristoallowyoutocontrolthesonar.
Itprovidesthegraphicpresentationofthesonarmodesandthe
imagescreated,itholdsthemenusystem,itcommunicateswith
theOperatingPanel,andreadsinformationfromperipheralunits
bymeansoftheInterfaceUnit.
TheProcessorUnitcommunicateswiththeBeamformerUnit
usingasingleEthernetcable.
BeamformerUnit
TheBeamformerUnitisamarinecomputer,whichrunsthe
MicrosoftWindowsXP®operatingsystem.Thesoftwareand
hardwarehasbeenspeciedandassembledbySimradtosuitthe
SX90sonarrequirements.ThecomputerholdsaCDplayertobe
usedforfuturesoftwareupgrades.
Thepurposeofthiscomputeristoperformtheadvancedsignal
processingrequiredtopresenttheinformationontheProcessor
Unit.
TheBeamformerUnitcommunicateswiththeTransceiverUnit
inthesonarroomusingasingleEthernetcable.
Audioamplierwithloudspeakers
Anamplierwithoneortwoloudspeakersmaybeconnectedto
theBeamformerUnittoprovidetheaudiooutput.
Theseoptionalitemsarenotprovidedwiththestandardsonar
delivery.
IfstandardcommercialPCloudspeakersareused,theseare
normallypoweredbyaseparatepowersupply.
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