CEI-100/CEI-200/CEI-
x20 User’s Manual
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CHAPTER
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Introduction
Features
The CEI-100, CEI-200, CEI-220, CEI-420, CEI-420A, CEI-520, CEI-
520A, CEI-620, CEI-820, and CEI-820TX are intelligent interfaces
between multiple ARINC-429/575 data buses and a compatible host
computer. The CEI-100, CEI-200, and the CEI-220 are ISA-bus interface
boards. The CEI-420 interfaces with the host using the PC/104 bus. The
CEI-420A uses the PC/104 bus and includes a PC/104
Plus
pass-through
connector. The CEI-520 (5V-only) and CEI-520A (3.3V and 5V) interface
with the host using the 33 MHz PCI Revision 2.1 bus specification. The
CEI-620 interfaces with the host using the CompactPCI bus specification.
The CEI-820/820TX interfaces with the host using the PCI Mezzanine
Card (PMC) bus specification.
The CEI-100, CEI-200, and CEI-x20 devices support ARINC-429/575 data
buses. The CEI-220, CEI-420, CEI-420A, CEI-520, CEI-520A, CEI-620,
and CEI-820 can also support other protocols including CSDB, ARINC
561, ARINC 568, and ARINC 573/717. Each of these boards has its own
processor for interface control, data formatting, filtering, and time tagging.
They have substantial dual-port RAM for buffering of data. The boards
are powerful enough to support all of their channels running at maximum
theoretical throughput simultaneously. The hardware buffering
mechanisms guarantee valid data transfer between the ARINC buses and
user programs. Powerful, easy-to-use application software and user
interface libraries support the boards.
The distribution CD-ROM, available for most configurations of the
hardware, contains a rich, programming toolkit. CEI-SW is the software
distribution for the CEI-100 and CEI-200, and CEI-x20-SW is the software
distribution for the CEI-220, CEI-420, CEI-420A, CEI-520, CEI-520A,
CEI-620, CEI-820, and CEI-820TX.
The CEI-x20-SW distribution contains device drivers for Linux, VxWorks,
and Windows NT/XP/Vista/Server 2008/7/8.0/8.1/Server 2012/10 (note
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