decision to adopt 1553 for its A350 flight critical systems put the of the dependability and on the standard, said Steve Holder, global avionics sales manager, GE Intelligent Platforms. The Charlottesville, Va.-based company sold the development gear for those systems to Airbus, he said. The standard is also being used on COMAC C919 narrowbody aircraft, and Boeing is looking at it for its nextgeneration aircraft, said Harry Wild, vice president of sales of Rio Rancho, N.M.-based Alta Data Technologies, a company that offers 1553 components including a new product that bridges 1553 and Ethernet systems. The strengths play well in an era in which aircraft are using fly-bywire controls and composite fuselages. Compared to commercial ARINC 429 standard, it has error rate and high noise Nardin said. Designed for critical Market Moves The following are new products and developments from developers and manufacturers of ARINC 429 and Mil-Std-1553 databus products. Holt Integrated Circuits in September released the application development kit for the HI-6130 Mil-Std-1553 multi-terminal device. It provides a single-chip, 3.3V BC/MT/RT Mil-Std-1553 system, including dual transceivers and 64K bytes RAM, in a compact surface-mount 100-pin PQFP package. The hardware includes a 2-board assembly, comprised of an upper HI-6130 board with dual transformer-coupled Mil-Std-1553 bus interfaces and a lower microprocessor board with ARM Cortex M3 16/32-bit microprocessor, debug interface and regulated 3.3VDC power supply. AIM introduced APE429-x, a PCIe module for ARINC 429 test applications, the Freiburg, Germany-based company said in October. The company said four, eight or 16 channel modules are available. Each channel is software programmable for receive or transmit mode and high/low bit rates. It uses a high-speed FPGA with integrated PCI-Express bus (1x Lane/2.5Gb/s) and IRIG-B Time Encoder/Decoder. Integrated in the cards are eight (Avionic Level) General Purpose Discrete I/O (GPIO) signals which can be used to generate strobe outputs or to sample external digital inputs. Alta Data Technologies in October introduced two products for PCI Express systems: Mini PCI Express MPCIE-A429 and a One Lane, Low PCIE1L-A429 interface card. These products provide shared ARINC-429/575 RX/TX channels and support ARINC-573/717 standard and include a modular software development kit, AltaAPI. Avionics Interface Technologies (AIT), of Omaha, Neb., in August released a USB test and simulation module for ARINC 429 databuses. USB429 is a rugged module designed to provide a stand-alone ARINC 429 interface for avionics applications. It supports up to 16 ARINC 429 channels, each can be individually to transmit or receive and to operate at the high or low bit rates by ARINC 429. Full error injection and detection is supported, as well as customizable options for label selective triggering. The USB429 enables real-time recording and analysis of multiple channels, according to the company. Beta Transformer Technology Corp., based in Bohemia, N.Y., introduced the BXC-A-2 two-stub box coupler. This box coupler achieves full Mil-Std-1553 compatibility in system development, laboratory, test and line applications. Israel-based Sital Technology launched PMC Hyperboard, a platform for avionics communication bus applications. It adheres to numerous bus standards including Mil-Std-1553B, H009, WB194 and DigiBus. PMC HyperBoard features eight dual-redundant, channels where each channel can be a bus controller, remote terminal or MultiRT and/or monitor. The board provides 8X avionics and 8X digital discrete I/Os. www.avionicstoday.com December 2011 Avionics Magazine 37