Specifications
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ARINC-429 and MIL-STD-1553 interfaces
ARINC 429 and 1553 bus interfaces are available for your Dewetron system, in both PCI card and external
USB box format. The OEM supplier of these interfaces is Ballard Technologies. Dewetron systems support
the Omnibus line of cards and rack-mounting boxes, as well as the so-called “fth generation” of lower cost
Ballard PCI cards. The software interface into DEWESoft is in the form of a software plugin, which is an op-
tion called DEWESoft-OPT-ARINC/1553.
- With the Omnibus series you can have a single card with both ARINC 429 and 1553 interfaces on it. In the USB
and 5th generation PCI series, there is one bus type maximum per interface.
The plugin will be installed and congured at the factory, however, if you need to reinstall the plugin, please
copy Ballard.dll to the Addons folder of DEWESoft. If you are running Windows 7, plugins need to be regis-
tered, and there is a button for that on the plugins page of the DEWESoft hardware setup screen.
When this is done, the Ballard plugin will appear in Hardware setup plugin list.
Refer to Ballard manual for installation of Ballard drivers and connecting Ballard devices.
First checkmark the Ballard plugin to enable it. If any devices will be found they will be shown at Devices
panel. If hardware conguration changes, just press the Search button and system will be rescanned.
If you want to use previous recorded data or/and don’t have hardware, you can use a replay mode. Check-
mark it and select any csv le with device denition and bus data.
At the top you have save messages check box for saving replay les. Just check it and one csv le for each
device (core) will be created along with DEWESoft data le when recording (on the same folder with the
same name).
Under it is one button for each bus. Short name on the button is composed of device number, channel num-