Brochure

avionics
GE Intelligent Platforms is the recognized leader in providing reliable data
bus products that support the main aircraft interface technologies (MIL-STD-
1553B and ARINC 429) that have been the standard for the past 50 years in the
industry. We are also investing in supporting the new high-speed, determinist
Ethernet-based technologies, AFDX/ARINC 664. Our wide range of products
support many different interface technologies including new standards like
PCIe, XMC, VPX, AMC and Express card and all products have driver support
for many of the real-time operation systems. Our products are used in the
development, simulation, test and maintenance of aircraft, space, weapons
and ground systems. We also provide rugged and conduction-cooled boards
for the demanding embedded environment, and are flying in many of today’s
military and commercial aircraft systems.
GE offers a complete product line of embedded
products that supports MIL-STD-1553B. Our
MIL-STD-1553 interface hardware provides
the newest generation bus products using
high-speed encoding and decoding with large
onboard memory capacity. Our boards accu-
rately buffer and record bus traffic with no
data loss while simultaneously scheduling
1553 messages. Our FPGA products provide a
long-term migration path, with in-field Firm-
ware updates.
GE also offers a complete line of desktop and embedded products
that support a wide variety of commercial avionics protocols,
including ARINC 429/575/582, ARINC 561, ARINC 573/717, ARINC
453/708, and CSDB. All of our ARINC 429 products support
maximum data throughput on all channels and most products
provide on-board message scheduling, label filtering, multiple
buffering options, time-tagging, error injection/detection and
avionics-level I/O discretes. Ruggedized configurations with
extended operating temperatures are optional.
GE Intelligent Platforms provides an AFDX/ARINC 664 part
7 product family that is ideal for data bus analysis of this
next-generation avionics technology, which is a deterministic
protocol for real-time applications over Ethernet media. This
100MB technology greatly increases the data throughput which
in turn also helps to decrease cabling needs onboard aircraft
thus reducing weight. This technology is currently being used
on the new AirBus A380 and the Boeing 787 programs.
photo courtesy of u.s. navy »
senior airman clay lancaster