Data Sheet

09.14 GFA-2008
GE Intelligent Platforms Contact Information
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part of GE Energy Management. The company’s Military/Aerospace business, headquartered in Huntsville,
AL, and Towcester, England, provides one of the industry’s broadest ranges of high performance, rugged,
SWaP-optimized embedded computing platforms. Backed by programs that provide responsive customer
support and minimize long term cost of ownership for multi-year programs, GE’s solutions are designed to
help customers minimize program risk and cost, and to speed time-to-market. For more information, visit
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RCNIC-A2PA - Dual Port ARINC 664 Part 7 PMC Interface
Specifications
Physical
• PMC Mezzanine Card
• Available for PCI, PCIe
®
and 3U cPCI formats
Environmental
• Commercial operating temp. range: 0°C to +70°C
• Optional temperature range: -40°C to +85°C
• Relative humidity: 5 to 90% (non-condensing)
Software
• Windows
®
7 (32- and 64-bit), Vista
®
, XP
®
, 2000, 2003
and Linux
®
support. Contact factory for availability
of support for additional operating environments
(including LabVIEW
™
).
• Cpcap API Library
• AFDX-A API Library
Connections
• Two IEEE 802.3 compliant Ethernet RJ-45 connectors
• High density 15-pin D-sub connector for In/Out
triggers per port and four bi-directional avionics-level
discretes
PCI Signal Compatibility
• Universal (5V or 3.3V)
• 66/33 MHz PCI bus operation
• DMA Tx/Rx data transfers
• CNIC-A2PX (on a PCI carrier) is compatible with PCI-X
1.0 and PCI slots
Timing Reference
• 64-bit time tag
• IRIG-B receiver (AM or TTL/DC)
• IRIG-B generator (TTL/DC)
• IRIG-B PPS synchronization with time tag
• Software-selectable internal wrap
Triggering
• Wait for external trigger to transmit
• Output when marked frame is transmitted
• Output when error-free packet received
• Output when error packet received
Port Parameters
• Full duplex IEEE 802.3 compliant ports
• Software-selectable 10/100 Mbps data rates
• Software-selectable auto-negotiation
Ethernet Frame Reception
• Ethernet frames transferred to host buffers via DMA
• Min-to-copy capability
• High resolution time-tagging with 20 nsec resolution
• Link level error detection
Receive Statistics (64-bit counters)
• Separate counters for Link level errors
- Physical symbol
- Invalid preamble symbol
- Invalid or missing SFD
- Preamble length too short
- Unaligned frame
- IFG too short
- Frame too short
- Frame too long
- CRC errors
• Total bytes received
• Total count of error free packets received
• Total count of packets with errors received
• Dropped packets
Ordering Information
RCNIC-A2PA Dual port 10/100 full duplex PMC module for AFDX/ARINC 664 Part 7 support
RCNIC-A2PAX Dual port 10/100 full duplex PCI card (PMC on carrier) for AFDX/ARINC 664 Part 7 support
RCNIC-A2PA3 Dual port 10/100 full duplex 3U CompactPCI card (PMC on carrier) for AFDX/ARINC 664
Part 7 support
Optional Hardware
-E suffix Extended temperature
-K suffix Conformal coated
-R suffix Ruggedized, extended temperature (only available on PMC native board)
Optional Software
BT-AFDX-A Visual analyzer for AFDX/ARINC 664 Part 7
BT-AIL-A2 Visual analyzer for AFDX/ARINC 664 Part 7 with ARINC 429 and generic EDE
RCNIC-A2PA Architecture
User Level
• Avionics Applications
• AFDX-A API
• Packet Capture Library (Cpcap)
OS level
• CNIC Driver
Ethernet Frame Transmission
• Ethernet frames transferred from host buffers via
DMA
• Transmission scheduling with 20 nsec resolution
• Flexible scheduling modes
- Minimum IFG delay (960 nsec between frames)
- Per-frame specified delays (multiple conditions)
- On external trigger
- Playback delay modes
• Interrupt generation on user-identified frames
Transmit Statistics (64-bit counters)
• Total packets transmitted
• Total bytes transmitted
Error Injection
• Physical symbol error
• Preamble (symbol and length) errors
• Framing (byte alignment) error
• SFD (Start frame delimiter) error
• CRC error
Power (max.)
• +3.3 VDC: 950 mA
Hardware Level