The Talon® RTS 2709 is a turnkey system, used for recording high-bandwidth signals. The RTS 2709 uses 12-bit, 3.6 GHz A/D converters and can provide sustained recording rates up to 3.2 GB/sec. It can be configured as a one- or two-channel system and can record sampled data, packed as 8-bit-wide consecutive samples, or as 16-bit-wide consecutive samples (12-bit digitized samples residing in the 12 MSBs of the 16-bit word.)