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Product Description
ARINC 429 is a versatile standardized bus interface. ARINC 429 is robust featuring
Manchester encoding and enough voltage swing to provide excellent noise immunity
and reasonable throughput rates. ARINC 429 is the interface of choice for critical
applications; for example aircraft instrumentation and control. There are many devices
supporting the 429 bus - printers, instrumentation, sensors and more.
IP-429-II makes it easy to gain access to the ARINC 429 bus. Just connect; program a
few registers and use like an IO device. Reference software, schematics and
debugging aides are available in the Engineering Kit.
IP-429-II is an upgrade to the original IP-429 design. Dynamic Engineering designed
the original IP-429 in 1998 and both manufactured and licensed the design.
GreenSpring Computers, and later SBS manufactured the board under their licensing
agreements.
The base version of the upgraded design uses the same address and bit maps. The
design is enhanced with the Time Trigger / Time Stamp capability now being included
on all versions and moved into the IO space. The IO connector has the same signal
definitions. The revision 2 and later boards have FLASH memory instead of the PROM
and the JTAG signals available on the IO connector.
Please refer to the web page for updated versions with enhanced features. The new
versions will have different IDPROM definitions to allow differentiation in your system.
Previously purchased IP-429-II rev B and later boards can be updated to make use of
the new features.
IP-429-II is capable of providing up to 8 Receive and 4 Transmit channels of ARINC 429
compatible IO in one IP position. Each of the eight (8) receive channels has a 32 bit
Time Tag register associated with it. The Time Tag generator operates with a 1 uS
resolution. When each new message is received the Data Ready signal from the 429
decoder device is used to trigger the time stamp for that channel.
In addition to the ARINC 429 capability, a parallel IO port is provided to allow custom
formats and specialized status to be implemented. The hardware is capable of other
formats including 571, 575, and 706 with software set-up changes.
IP-429 supports both the High and Low speed standards for data transmission. A
programmable register allows each TX channel to operate at either rate. Each
transmitter is supported by an 8 deep 32 bit wide FIFO.