Data Sheet

09.14 GFA-2007
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trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. PCI Express is
a trademark of PCI-SIG. LabVIEW is a trademark of National Instruments Corp. VxWorks is a registered
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owners. Specifications are subject to change without notice.
RCNIC-A2APU4 - Dual Port ARINC 664 Four Lane PCI Express Interface
Specifications
Physical
• PCI Express Interface board (PMC on Carrier) standard
height, half length (4.376” x 6.600 “)
Environmental
• Commercial operating temp. range: 0°C to +70°C
• Relative humidity: 5 to 90% (non-condensing)
Software
• Microsoft
®
Windows
®
7 (32- and 64-bit), Vista
®
, XP
®
,
2000, 2003 and Linux
®
support. Contact factory for
availability of support for additional operating envi-
ronments (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 trig-
gers per port and four bi-directional avionics-level
discretes
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
• Software-selectable internal wrap
Error Injection
• Physical symbol error
• Preamble (symbol and length) errors
• Framing (byte alignment) error
• SFD (Start frame delimiter) error
• CRC error
Optional Configurations
• Conformal coating
• Extended temperature
Ordering Information
RCNIC-A2PAU4 Dual port 10/100 full duplex 4 lane PCI Express interface card (PMC on carrier) for
ARINC 664/AFDX support
RCNIC-A2PAKU4 Dual port 10/100 full duplex 4 lane PCI Express interface card (PMC on carrier) for
ARINC 664/AFDX support with conformal coating
RCNIC-A2PAEU4 Dual port 10/100 full duplex 4 lane PCI Express interface card (PMC on carrier) for
ARINC 664/AFDX support with ext temp
RCNIC-A2PAEKU4 Dual port 10/100 full duplex 4 lane PCI Express interface card (PMC on carrier) for
ARINC 664/AFDX support with ext temp and conformal coating
Optional Software
BT-AFDX-A ARINC 664 Part 7 traffic analyzer
BT-AIL-A2 ARINC 429 and 664 Part 7 (with generic EDE) traffic analyzer
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
Transmit Statistics (64-bit counters)
• Total packets transmitted
• Total bytes transmitted
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
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