Avionics

Products

• 10MBit 1553

This advanced solution offers a less expensive architecture than regular 1Mbit 1553, while providing up to 10 times the data throughput. This interface is an excellent choice for flight controls, actuators, electro-pneumatic controllers or similar applications of standard 1553 requiring higher data rates.

• AFDX/ARINC 664

AFDX is a deterministic protocol for real time application on Ethernet media, also known as ARINC 664 Part 7. AFDX is intended for aircraft flight critical interfaces, including Engines, Flight Controls, Navigation Systems. With both hardware-based and software loadable AFDX, we support AFDX across evolving platforms to protect your avionics investment.

• ARINC 429

Our ARINC solutions provide feature-rich functionality, ease of use and exceptional performance for embedded, test and simulation applications. Most interfaces offer individual channel programmability for source or sink, and an optional IRIG B receive time stamp. The PCI and PMC interfaces offer on-board transmit channel listen feature. They provide a user-friendly design to the host system with on-board management of transmission, receive, and data logging execution.

• ARINC 615 Data Loader

The streamlined, single- or multi-session interface software provides intuitive Microsoft® Windows®-based ARINC 615-3/603 data loading. The single-session software loads one ARINC 615-3/603 compatible LRU at a time. The multi-session integrated hardware/software solution supports up to 16 simultaneous upload or download sessions with ARINC 615/603 compatible LRUs.

• Avionics IP Core

By taking advantage of the revolutionary advances in capacity, performance and cost-effectiveness of a new generation of programmable logic devices (PLDs), we can provide military system designers with new and exciting protocol communications options. The military electronics industry is rapidly moving to deploy these higher levels of integration provided by System on a Chip (SoC) or integrated I/O implementations.
Various configurations of IP Core are available, including lightweight, no-API required, 1MBit, 10MBit multi-drop, and 10MBit point to point MMSI Cores.

• Built to Order

GE is your partner for Avionics interfaces, including catalogue (COTS) and Custom and Build to Order products. These products are application specific custom builds or software/hardware/configuration modifications from our COTS products and have pricing and delivery quoted per order.

• Data Bus Analyzers

Our powerful application software gives you simplified control over receive, transmit, logging and analysis functions. You can analyze bus traffic, quickly generate or modify messages and view received data in engineering units. Our tools provide a full suite of advanced features for use in the laboratory, in flight, on the flight line, or in any application requiring real-time data acquisition and analysis.

• MIL-STD-1553

We offer a wide range of intelligent MIL-STD-1553 interface hardware to meet demanding application needs. Our 1553 product line combines high-speed encoding/decoding, large onboard memory, intelligent protocol processing and advanced board-level functionality. This enables accurate buffering and recording of bus traffic with no data loss while simultaneously scheduling 1553 messages without host intervention.

• Other Protocols

Interface to a wide range of avionics protocols with our single-board, multi-protocol solutions for PCI, CompactPCI, PC/104, PCMCIA, VME, VXI and PMC platforms. Many of our ARINC 429 boards offer options for additional commercial avionics protocols. For additional flexibility, we offer modular board solutions for PCI, CompactPCI, VME and VXI platforms. Optionally supported protocols include: ARINC 561/568 6-wire, ARINC 573/717, ARINC 419, ARINC 582, ARINC 708/453, RS-232/422/485, ARINC 615-3 and CSDB.

• TTE - Time-Triggered Ethernet

TTEthernet (Time-Triggered Ethernet) is a scalable, open real-time Ethernet platform used for safety-related applications primarily in avionics, transportation and industrial automation. TTEthernet sets new standards for flexibility, modularity and scalability in Ethernet-based systems. It is compatible to IEEE 802.3 Ethernet and integrates transparently with Ethernet network components. TTEthernet has been designed for safe and highly available real-time applications. This technology offers deterministic real-time communication and TCP/IP Ethernet traffic in parallel on the same network. It enables the integration of standard Ethernet controllers and allows implemention in hardware or software. TTEthernet simplifies the design of fault-tolerant and high availability solutions.

• TTP - Time-Triggered Protocol

TTP (Time-Triggered Protocol) is an open and modular control system platform technology that supports the design of upgradeable, reusable and easy-to-integrate systems. As a time-triggered fieldbus, it can significantly impact the design of modern electronics and control system architectures for next-generation vehicles and industrial applications.

As a fault-tolerant time-triggered protocol, TTP provides autonomous fault-tolerant message transport at known times and with minimal jitter by employing a TDMA (Time-Division Multiple Access) strategy on replicated communication channels. TTP offers fault-tolerant clock synchronization that establishes the global time base without relying on a central time server.

TTP provides a membership service to inform every correct node about the consistency of data transmission. This mechanism can be viewed as a distributed acknowledgment service that informs the application promptly if an error in the communication system has occurred. If state consistency is lost, the application is notified immediately. Additionally, TTP includes the service of clique avoidance to detect faults outside the fault hypothesis, which cannot be tolerated at the protocol level.