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News Release from: DDC United Kingdom | Subject: BU-65567/68
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 02 July 2002
Military databus option joins PC/104
format
Data Device Corporation (DDC) is now offering single-function MIL-STD-1553 databus interface cards for the PC/104 format.
Data Device Corporation (DDC) is now offering single-function MIL-STD-1553 databus interface cards for the PC/104 format MIL-STD-1553 is the dual redundant data bus used on the majority of the western world's military aircraft and in many other space and defence systems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Aug 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Built around DDC's high-performance Enhanced Mini-ACE terminal, the BU-65567/68 has four dual-redundant bus controller/remote terminal/monitor (BC/RT/MT) channels.
Both are 16bit convection-cooled cards built in accordance with PC/104 specification Version 2.3.
"DDC is in the process of offering Enhanced Mini-ACE versions of all our 1553 single-function cards.
The PC/104 form factor is used increasingly in embedded systems using MIL-STD-1553 cards, and so it was essential that we apply the latest high-performance terminal we have to offer to this format", noted Mike Hegarty, Data Bus Technologies Product Marketing Manager.
The BU-65567/68 is designed for military avionics and ground-vehicle applications.
As with DDC's other, similarly enhanced cards, BU-65567/68 performance benefits stem from DDC's Enhanced Mini-ACE advanced architecture.
A feature of both cards, the highly flexible RT mode offers single, double, subaddress-specific circular, and global circular buffering options-including 50% and 100% rollover interrupts.
The BU-65568 also offers a BC mode with a built-in message sequence control engine with instructions for offloading the host processor; programmable and selectable monitoring based on RT address, transmit/receive bit, and subaddress; and a 32KB paging mode as well as a flat addressing mode for up to 512Kbyte that supports numerous platforms.
In addition, each Enhanced Mini-ACE terminal includes highly autonomous, built-in self-test capability for protocol logic and RAM.
Both cards are supported by free software, including a C library and drivers for DOS and VxWorks, which eliminate the need for a considerable amount of low-level programming.
DDC is currently shipping the BU-65568.
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