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News Release from: DDC United Kingdom
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 January 2006
Interface demonstrates faster aircraft
databus
DDC, The Boeing Company and Honeywell Aerospace have successfully completed a flight demonstration of a new technology that dramatically speeds up the transmission of tactical aircraft data.
Data Device Corporation (DDC) teamed with The Boeing Company and Honeywell Aerospace has successfully completed a flight demonstration of a new technology that dramatically speeds up the transmission of tactical aircraft data The flight demonstration, conducted on 17th December 2006 from St Louis, involved the Boeing F-15E1 Advanced Technology Demonstrator aircraft
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Aug 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new technology is a high performance 1553 databus (called HyPer-1553) developed by DDC.
HyPer-1553 technology uses existing MIL-STD-1553 bus infrastructure to transmit data at much higher rates than 1Mbit/s that present-day conventional MIL-STD-1553 databuses provide.
The new technology helps increase bandwidth between subsystems, which is becoming increasingly necessary for network-centric operations and sensor fusion applications.
Because it's able to use the existing MIL-STD-1553 infrastructure, HyPer-1553 paves the way for avionics system upgrades in proven aircraft at much less cost and down time than would be required for other high datarate options that would require the installation of new wiring.
These types of upgrades also may be done incrementally because HyPer-1553 technology can operate in parallel with MIL-STD-1553 databuses.
During the test, Boeing Phantom Works engineers used the HyPer-1553 databus to transmit digital imagery data between a rugged chassis mounted in the forward equipment bay of the F-15E and a modified Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) weapon mounted on a wing pylon station.
DDC's circuit card with the HyPer-1553 interface was mounted to a Honeywell general purpose processor on each end of the interface.
During the test, the test team successfully transferred data at 40Mbit/s over an existing 1553 databus infrastructure in parallel with MIL-STD-1553 data being transmitted at 1Mbit/s.
The team also transferred data at 80 and 120Mbit/s on a second 1553 bus dedicated to the higher speed data.
"HyPer-1553 builds on DDC's established MIL-STD-1553 product base, and allows us to couple the power of our ACE series of MIL-STD-1553 products with HyPer-1553 technology", said Amir Massumi, Director of Marketing at DDC.
DDC's roadmap for HyPer-1553 technology includes plans to make it compatible with emerging Notice 5 requirements for MIL-STD-1553B technology.
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