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News Release from: GE Fanuc Embedded Systems | Subject: R15-EC, RAF-EC, RAR-EC
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 April 2008
Interfaces suit avionics testing
The three ExpressCards are available in a range of configurations, including card only, card and appropriate analyser and a full turnkey portable analyser system.
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has released three ExpressCard interfaces for testing critical aircraft systems The R15-EC is a dual-port MIL-STD-1553 ExpressCard Interface; the RAF-EC is a dual-port ARINC 664 ExpressCard Interface; and the RAR-EC is a multichannel ARINC 429 ExpressCard interface
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Jun 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The testing of critical avionics systems is becoming increasingly demanding, especially in the area of AFDX in commercial avionics", said Ben Daniel, Avionics Product Manager at GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms.
"These three new products provide the kind of high-throughput, high-portability, high-reliability solutions our customers need".
The three ExpressCards are available in a range of configurations, including card only, card and appropriate analyser and a full turnkey portable analyser system that includes the interface card, protocol analyser and semirugged laptop.
The R15-EC MIL-STD-1553 ExpressCard Interface provides one or two 1553 channels integrated with powerful API software that provides instant access to all 1553 databus functionality.
Standard features include IRIG-B Receiver (AM or DC/TTL), Generator (DC/TTL), real-time bus playback (with the ability to edit out RTs), aperiodic message insertion, error injection/detection, conditional BC branching, 45bit timetags and "Oneshot" BC operation.
The Bus Monitor mode provides 100% bus monitoring of a fully loaded 1553 bus.
The RAF-EC ARINC 664 ExpressCard Interface is a high-performance interface for monitoring, generating and analysing full-bandwidth AFDX-ARINC 664 protocol traffic.
GE Fanuc's pipeline architecture maximises packet throughput using parallel controllers and efficient DMA transfers, thereby avoiding the bottlenecks of CPU-based interface solutions.
Configurable as either one dual-redundant AFDX/ARINC 664 interface or two independent ports, users have complete access to all frame and header data.
Each incoming packet is tagged with a 20ns resolution, 64bit time-tag.
real-time traffic generation is highly accurate.
An IRIG-B receiver/generator is included for synchronisation to external IRIG-B time sources and for synchronising multiple CNIC boards.
In addition, I/O triggers, error detection/injection, BIT and link/protocol statistics are provided.
The GE Fanuc RAR-EC is an intelligent, high-density, ExpressCard interface that provides up to seven receive and four transmit fully independent ARINC 429 channels, along with up to four bi-directional avionics level I/O discretes.
Features include programmable data rates and parity, error detection, multiple buffering modes, timetagging and automatic transmit slew rate adjustment.
Configuration options include selection of channel count, a mix of ARINC 429 and ARINC 573/717 and a Dataloader configuration.
All three products benefit from GE Fanuc's software support to significantly reduce development and integration time.
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