The AT-PCC-429 card provides a flexible, powerful ARINC429 avionics data bus interface to the PC card socket. The card can be used with a laptop, notebook PC, a desktop PC, or any other device that has a PC Card interface. The AT-PCC-429 is based on Type II PC Card architecture. The card is designed to transmit and receive messages up to 6 channels. Each channel is software configurable for high or low speed (12.5k or 100k bits per second) and ARINC429 protocol requirements. The ARINC data word can be decoded and sorted based on the Label and SDI bits and stored in RAM and/or FIFOs. The card is integrated with powerful software that reduces development time. All data bus functionality is supported by our advanced API (Application Programming Interface) and VIP (Virtual Instrument Panel). |
HARDWARE |
The AT-PCC-429 card can be configured with single ARINC429 controller from DDC, which is configured as 2 Transmit and 4 Receive channels. The controller has 128 x 32 bit static RAM, four 32 (words deep) x 32 (bit) Receive FIFOs and two 32 (words deep) x 32 (bit) transmit FIFOs. Look-up tables loaded into RAM enable the controllers receive circuitry to filter and sort incoming data by label and destination bit as well as provide multilevel data specific interrupts or hardware triggers. |
SOFTWARE |
The AT-PCC-429 software includes : |
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Virtual Instrument Panel |
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Drivers & APIs |
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Virtual Instrument Panel |
The AT-PCC-429 card comes with a Virtual Instrument Panel providing interactive control of all ARINC429 features. The control interface appears on the computer display and user manipulates these controls with a mouse or keyboard. The purpose of Virtual Instrument Panel is to help the user (mostly system integrators) to quickly setup and use the card, just like a stand-alone instrument with physical front-end knobs, controls and display without getting into programming intricacies. |
Drivers & APIs |
The card comes with a powerful set of library functions to access the entire ARINC429 functionality. The drivers are designed in a modular fashion consisting of component functions and application functions. The users test program can be developed with few calls to the card driver, by using the set of Application functions provided. Driver and high-level API libraries for Windows XP are available. Sample application programs are included. |