Sital Announces the Release of the BRD1553 PC104 PC104 Multi Interface Board

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Sital Announces the Release of the BRD1553 PC104 PC104 Multi Interface Board

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Sital Technology announces the launch of its new PC104+ board, an efficient and robust platform for avionics communication bus applications.

BRD1553PC104 Board is a PC-104+ Card, multi-standard board that consists of 2 dual-redundant channels of Mil-Std-1553. It’s compatible with Mil-Std-1760 and Mil-Std-1553B as well as its channels can independently be configured to work with EBR1553, WB-194, and H009  in conjunction with 1553. Other protocols, such as French DigiBus, also are available when requested.

The PC-104+ Board’s based on Sital’s proven H009, 1553 & WB-194 (WMUX) IP cores, loaded into an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) component and discrete components transceivers. The board is able to be programmed by Sital, allowing the flexibility to support a variety of protocols and configurations with the use of the exact same hardware. It includes 8 Generic I/O pins, that could be utilized as RS-485/RS-422, and also includes ARINC-429 (8 for transmit and 16 for receive channels) or 8 avionics I/O ports. Also, the board includes 8 digital I/Os & IRIG-B time-tag input & output channels.

For more information please visit: https://sitaltech.com/products-main-page/pc104-cards/

Sital Demonstrates Significant Improvement of Noise Durability for BRM1553 and EBR1553 MIL-STD-1553 IP Cores

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As part of a customer’s system, Sitals BRM1553 MIL-STD-1553 FPGA IP core recently passed all the RT validation tests at Test Systems Inc.

During the test, an issue was raised regarding the noise immunity of the system under test.

Noise Rejection Tests are performed during the RT Validation test in section 5.3. It is the last test in 1553 RT Validation, and is done by sending multiple 1553 messages to the RT, polluted by noise of predefined characteristics.

In this case, the system under test used a very marginal 1553 transceiver which suffered from bad symmetry and created a considerable DC offset. This system failed the noise test (although by just a bit – 130mV instead of 140mV).

Needless to say, Sital’s IP core passed the same tests many times in the past, with various transceivers and configurations.

The customer had 2 other similar boards that passed the tests at his own lab (with similar equipment as in Test Systems Inc.), but he decided to use the worst-case board for the RT validation testing.

Nevertheless, Sital took it upon itself to improve the noise immunity of its IP regardless of the quality of the transceiver. The alternative for this customer was to re-spin his board and switch to another transceiver component.

After some modifications to the IP core, the same system passed the noise test with very good results.

“This is a clear example of the advantage of using an IP core.” Said Duli Yariv, Sital’s VP for Sales and Marketing. “Within a few days we provided an effective solution, preventing the customer from going through the long and costly process of making changes to his board” he added.

We, therefore, recommend our customers to update their IP core to the newest version.

This update is free for customers under support.

Sital Announces the Availability of 10 Mbit MIL-STD-1553 IP Cores

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Sital Technology announced today that it completed the design of the Enhanced Bit Rate (EBR) 1553 Intellectual Property core for FPGA.

EBR-1553 is a 10Mbps bit rate protocol that utilized the robust Mil-Std-1553 protocol over RS-485 transceivers in a hub-based point-to-point connection. Using a star network topology between BC & Remote Terminals enables robust and high-speed data transfer.

Sital’s EBR-1553 IP core’s based on Sital’s proven BRM1553D 1553 IP cores, with DDC® Enhanced Mini-Ace® compatible interface. The ones available are Remote Terminals, Bus Controller as well as Bus Monitor IP Core configurations. The BRM1553D core can work with any FPGA, and requires only a standard RS-485 transceiver, which supports 10Mbps.

Users of Sital’s EBR-1553 IP core can select the core configuration (BC, RT, MT), clock frequency, memory configuration and FPGA family. The back-end interface can be targeted to a local-bus, PCI bus or simple FIFO/registers read/write bus.

The IP Core is provided with software drivers for Windows, Linux, and QNX along with high-level API. The API is fully compatible with DDC API, so that software developers already used to the DDC interface can easily transfer their existing applications to EBR.

An EBR-1553 tester is also available, utilizing the exact same hardware as the commonly used MultiComBox™, only with updated firmware.

“We are very pleased that we can now deliver high-speed EBR-1553 IP to our customers” said Duli Yariv, Sital’s VP Sales and Marketing. “Customers will enjoy the robustness of the 1553 protocol at a high speed of 10Mbps over the very low-cost RS-485 transceivers, with the ability to easily integrate the core into their FPGA and application” he added.

Ofer Hofman, Sital’s CTO pointed that “unlike other vendors’ solutions, Sital’s is a complete solution that includes all modes of operation – BC, RT and Monitor – along with software drivers and EBR tester hardware”.

The EBR-1553 IP core joins the Sital’s growing family of Mil-Std-1553, Arinc429, CAN, WB-194 and other reliable serial bus communication IP cores and solutions.

For more information please contact us at: https://sitaltech.com/products-main-page/ebr-ip-core/

Sital Announces the Availability of the HyperBoard for Rapid Avionic Databus Development

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Sital Technology announces the launch of its new PMC Hyperboard, a robust and efficient platform for avionics communication bus applications. Adhering to numerous bus standards including Mil-Std-1553B, H009, WB194 and DigiBus, the PMC Hyperboard puts into the hands of developers a highly-efficient and accelerated platform upon which they can rapidly develop state-of-the-art applications for many types of communication buses.

PMC HyperBoard features eight dual-redundant, configurable channels where each channel can be a bus controller (BC), remote terminal (RT) or MultiRT and/or monitor (MT). The board provides 8X avionics and 8X digital discrete I/Os. It can be used in conduction or air cooling environment. HyperBoard’s core works from its PCI clock and provides very fast PCI access supporting PCI burst. The board boasts very low power consumption and low heat dissipation.

“The PMC HyperBoard provides our customers with two major advantages,” declared Duli Yariv, VP of Marketing. “First, it provides a common and complete environment that is easy to learn for application developers who can then create applications for 1553, DigiBus and other standards using the same board and software. Second, the resulting applications benefit from the robustness, flexibility, speed, low heat dissipation and low power consumption of the board and surrounding software environment.”

Sital markets the PMC HyperBoard with a complete software development and testing environment including drivers and software API for Windows® and Linux. In addition, Sital’s popular Luthier™ graphic user interface for bus simulation and analysis is available.

PMC HyperBoard can be used for on-board avionics systems and for lab testing equipment and is software-compatible with DDC® Enhanced MiniACE® components and architecture.

PMC HyperBoard joins the Sital family of advanced communication bus products-star performers for a wide variety of applications.

Sital Announces the Release of MINUET – the World’s Smallest MIL-STD-1553 Component

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Sital Technology, the world leader in Mil-Std-1553 IP cores and products, announces the availability of the world’s smallest Mil-Std-1553 bus controller component– Minuet™.

Minuet™ is a family of compact, standalone, Mil-Std-1553B protocol terminals, which include Bus Controller (BC), Remote Terminal (RT) and Monitor (MT). Depending on the configuration, Minuet™ can be configured as BC/RT+MT or RT+MT. Minuet™ is available in high-density packaging at 8mm square Chip Scale Ball Grid Array (csBGA) or at 17mm square in 1mm pitch ftBGA packaging.

Minuet™ devices are software compatible with DDC® Enhanced MiniACE® components and architecture, with 8K or 16K Words of internal memory.

A Minuet™ device is able to work in conjunction with any standard 1553 transceiver and transformer, or with Sital’s discrete transceiver. When used in conjunction with NHI’s Bus+™, a complete 1553 solution includes an 8mm Minuet™ component and 2 x Bus+™ components, making this the smallest available complete solution for 1553.

Each device can be configured for Local Bus or PCI interface, supporting PCI burst mode for very fast data transfer to and from the device. Operating Clock frequency is flexible, with a wide range of frequencies selectable by writing to a register within the device. This Eliminates long bus cycles and multiple clock domains on board, simplifying timing requirements and reducing EMI and RFI problems.

Minuet™ is available in several configurations:

  • BC/RT/MT or RT/MT with local bus interface.
  • BC/RT/MT or RT/MT with PCI interface.
  • 8K (csBGA, 8 x 8 mm package) or 16K (ftBGA, 17 x 17 mm package) Words of internal memory

“We are delighted to release this device now” said Ofer Hofman, Sital’s founder and CTO, “with Minuet™ we are able to provide the smallest and the lowest cost solution for 1553, which is compatible with DDC® legacy interface” he added.

Duli Yariv, Sital’s VP of Sales and Marketing said: “Our customers can now choose between a wide variety of components and IP core implementations to meet their performance and cost criteria. Minuet™ is the bridge between the proven legacy software developed in the past and the form-factor and flexibility that is required for the future.”

More information can be found at Sital Technology website – http://www.sitaltech.com.

PCI-to-MIL-STD-1553 IP Core

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The newly released PCI IP core was developed in order to overcome problems related to existing BRM1553D,BRM1553FE and BRM1553PCI IP cores, specifically in the aerospace industry, where high reliability, wide temperature range and easy integration are key.

Ofer Hofman, CTO of Sital said: “While working on a project with a PCI core from one of the FPGA vendors, we discovered that the core we used doesn’t work in high temperature, even though the temperature was within the range of the component. We concluded that this is due to timing problems created by the core.

Another FPGA vendor provided us with a core that was very hard to integrate. We therefore used our extensive now-how and developed our own core, which is now successfully used in several projects”.

The core can be used for any FPGA and is provided in VHDL source code.

Sital Announces the Release of the 2nd Generation Avionics Bus Tester – the MultiComBox

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Sital Technology, the world leader in Mil-Std-1553 IP cores and products, is expanding its product base with the release of the 2nd generation of its Mil-Std-1553 bus tester – MultiComBox™.

The MultiComBox™ unit provides two dual-redundant MIL-STD-1553 channels, as well as four (4) serial channels and a synchronization channel for synchronizing other test equipment with 1553 protocol data. MultiComBox™ enables full MIL-STD-1553B testing, simulation and bus analysis capability in a very compact and self-contained unit. The unit connects through a USB 2.0 interface to any host system and supports a concurrent Bus Controller (BC) and up to thirty-one Remote Terminals (RT) with Bus Monitor (MT). Full error injection capability’s available in RT & BC modes, with full error detection in MT, RT, and BC modes. The tester can handle real-time data, creating a unique option for a complete Mil-Std-1553 real bus simulation system.

Special care was taken with the unit’s power consumption in order to enable operation from the low-power USB port of any standard PC, including laptop computers, without any external power source.

MultiComBox™ is supplied with improved Windows GUI – MuxMonitor™ and MuxSim™ – which are user-friendly and intuitive software tools for traffic generation, monitoring and analysis of Mil-Std-1553 bus. Working in conjunction with the unit, MuxMonitor™ can monitor messages, frames and errors and analyze the status of each unit and frame on the bus. It’s providing filters and triggers for displaying and monitoring of recorded data. Also, recorded frames can be exported as CSV, XML and other file formats for future use or for interacting with other programs. MuxSim™ can manage and simulate all traffic on the bus. It can handle a large number of Mil-Std-1553 frames, which can be inserted by the user, recorded from the bus or imported from XML files. To facilitate the test, MuxSim™ is able to simulate 1553 RTs, thus allowing the user to test the full ICD (Interconnect Control Document) without needing to connect every LRU physically. The user easily can pick which units are to be simulated and which units are real.

“The new MultiComBox™ is a great step forward for Sital” said Duli Yariv, Sital’s vice president for marketing. “our proven 1535 IP cores technology enables us to create low-cost yet high-value products, and this tester is just the first of many solutions which we are about to release to the market” he added. Sital’s founder and chief engineer, Ofer Hofman, said: “utilizing IP cores, FPGA technology and our flexible analog transceiver design enables us to reduce the size, cost and power consumption of the unit. It also provides the flexibility which is required for supporting more features and bus protocols like H009, PP-194 and others.”

For more information regarding the MultiComBox, please visit us at: https://sitaltech.com/products-main-page/multicombox/

MultiComBox™ – The Mil-Std-1553 tester – is available via Sital regional distributors or for direct ordering.
Please feel free to contact us at: https://sitaltech.com/contact-us/

Sital Announces the Release of the OCTAVA MIL-STD-1553 Component

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Sital Technology, the leader in Mil-Std-1553 IP cores and products, announced today the release of OCTAVA™, a Mil-Std-1553 communication engine, compatible with DDC® Enhanced MiniACE® devices.

The OCTAVA™ family integrates the BRM1553D Mil-Std-1553 protocol engine, a dual 5-volt transceiver, memory management, processor interface logic and 4K or 64K words of RAM in a 72 pin Plastic Quad Flat Pack (PQFP) package. The family consists of bi-directional data buffers and internal address latches to provide a host processor bus with direct interface. The memory management scheme for RT mode provides three data structures for buffering incoming and outgoing data. Combined with the extensive interrupt capability, these structures serve to guarantee data consistency whilst off-loading the host processor.

The OCTAVA devices can also boot-up as RT with the busy bit set for 1760 applications. The BC mode implements several features aimed at providing an efficient real time software interface to the host processor including flexible interrupt generation, automatic frame repetition, programmable inter-message gap times or message rate, and automatic retries.

The OCTAVA™ devices are pin-to-pin compatible with the DDC® BU-65178 and BU-61688 and as such serve as a perfect drop-in electrical, physical and software replacement. An avionics board designed with the DDC® BU-65178 and BU-61688 can work seamlessly with the OCT-65178 and OCT-61688 without hardware or software changes.

“The OCTAVA™ family completely changes the Mil-Std-1553 market. A market that was previously dominated by a single vendor will now benefit from the power of competition”, said Duli Yariv, VP of marketing for Sital Technology. “OCTAVA™ does not only offer price benefits over the competition, but it also introduces many technology and functional advantages for customers” he added.

OCTAVA™ was introduced in partnership with National Hybrid Inc. (NHi), who designed the transceiver and manufactures the device in the USA.

QuickLogic and Sital Partner to Develop Specialized MIL-STD-1553 FPGA IP Core

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SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–QuickLogic® Corporation (NASDAQ:QUIK – News), the lowest power programmable solutions leader, is expanding its commitment to its military customer base by partnering with Israel-based avionics technology leader Sital Technology to optimize Sital’s MIL-STD-1553 controller design for QuickLogic’s ViaLink® programmable fabric. The MIL-STD-1553 bus is used in military and avionics applications such as heads-up displays, radar, and weapons systems. The controller design will become part of QuickLogic’s Proven System Block (PSB) library for military-grade solutions using the PolarPro® family of programmable platforms.

The MIL-STD-1553 PSB manages all the communications on the bus to and from an attached device. The PSB can act as a bus controller, remote terminal, or monitor terminal interface to the bus, and offers a choice of interfaces on the back end. The PSB is able to provide compatibility with older chipsets that’ve got interfaces targeting legacy controllers, which replaces the legacy device in an existing design without needing any software changes. For new designs a simpler, streamlined interface is available, allowing communications over the bus simply by reading and writing registers.

“Our long-standing military customers are looking for proven MIL-STD-1553 solutions that provide cost-effective flexibility with the long product lifecycles required by their market,” said Mehul Kochar, Business Development Manager at QuickLogic. “We chose to work with Sital for their expertise in these solutions and because their optimized PSB is designed with flexibility in mind.”

“We are excited to be working with QuickLogic to make our technology more available to the US market,” adds Sital Marketing Director Duli Yariv. “Optimizing our design into a PSB for QuickLogic’s programmable fabric will help give a long life to military and civil aerospace designs by removing the risk of parts becoming obsolete as technology changes.” The partnership includes the development of the PSB and will support interface customization for unique designs when needed.

Availability

The MIL-STD-1553 interface PSB will be available for QuickLogic’s PolarPro family of solution platforms in Q3, 2008. PolarPro platforms are already available with full military temperature, shock, and vibration ratings. For more information, go to QuickLogic’s website, www.quicklogic.com.

About Sital Technology

Headquartered in Kfar-Saba, Israel, Sital Technology is an industry expert in MIL-STD-1553 design. The company develops silicon intellectual property for military and avionics applications, provides design services, and offers VHDL training. The principal staff are veterans of the Israeli Air Force with an in-depth understanding of avionics systems and their needs.

About QuickLogic

QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ:QUIK – News) is the pioneer and inventor of customizable, innovative semiconductor solutions for mobile as well as portable electronics OEMs & ODMs. These silicon plus software solutions are known as Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs). CSSPs allow our customers to have their products brought to market more quickly and remain in the market longer, with the low cost, power and size demanded by the mobile as well as portable electronics market. Visit www.quicklogic.com for more information about CSSPs and QuickLogic.

©2008 QuickLogic Corporation. All rights reserved.

QuickLogic, pASIC, PolarPro, the PolarPro design, QuickPCI, QuickRAM, QuickWorks and ViaLink are registered trademarks, and ArcticLink, the QuickLogic logo & VEE are trademarks of QuickLogic. Other trademarks are their respective company’s property.

Sital Successfully Completes Testing of Wiring Bus Diagnostics IP with an Air Force

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Sital Technology has conducted tests of its new patent pending “Tails Code Key” technology for Mil-Std-1553 bus maintenance as part of the BRM1553D IP. The results backed up the theoretical assumptions, previously seen on simulation.

The test was conducted on a F-16 mockup, together with avionics engineers from the Air Force, and proved the need for such technology to overcome wiring and connectors problems, often hard to detect and repair.

“Tail Code Key” is a parametric test that is measured during flight in real time, 50 times a second. These numbers serve as a code – quality code. The code varies as a direct result of the quality of the bus.

If the bus connectors or wires degrade over time and usage, the measured code would change. Technicians get an early warning for problems that should be fixed before they fail the bus.

“I am excited to see theory comes to life”, says Ofer Hofman, founder and R&D Manager of Sital Technology.

Duli Yariv, VP Marketing and Sales of Sital adds: “Tails Code Key will allow Air Forces to dramatically shorten efforts related to avionics bus maintenance. This technology will enable our customers to save time, costs and efforts, currently required, on problems that are related to avionics bus malfunctions and even take preventive measures to fix problems before they occur.”

“Tails Code Key” technology will be integrated with Sital’s successful BRM1553D, BRM1553PCI and BRM1553FE Mil-Std-1553 IP Cores, used by military and aerospace customers around the world.

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