MIL-STD-1553 PCI Express card from DDC chosen by NASA for Aries-1 rocket integration and testing
Sept. 14, 2010
BOHEMIA, N.Y., 14 Sept. 2010. Officials of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Washington needed MIL-STD-1553 PCI-Express avionics databus interface cards for NASA's System Integration and Software Development Labs to support the Ares-1 launch vehicle. They found their solution from Data Device Corp. (DDC) in Bohemia, N.Y.Â
BOHEMIA, N.Y., 14 Sept. 2010. Officials of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Washington needed MIL-STD-1553PCI Expressavionics databus interface cards for NASA's System Integration and Software Development Labs to support the Ares-1 launch vehicle. They found their solution from Data Device Corp. (DDC) in Bohemia, N.Y.
Ares-1 is the crew launch vehicle being developed by NASA as a component of the Constellation program. DDC will provide the BU-67106K MIL-STD-1553 PCI Express card. The BU-67106K PCI Express card is built on DDC's AceXtreme 1553 core, which has as many as four dual redundant MIL-STD-1553 channels operating in bus controller or Multi-RT (0 to 31) modes, with a concurrent bus monitor; software configurable bus coupling and termination options; native PCI-Express design; message signaled interrupt support; discrete I/O; and IRIG-B time code and time tag clock input and output.
John Keller is editor-in-chief of Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine, which provides extensive coverage and analysis of enabling electronic and optoelectronic technologies in military, space, and commercial aviation applications. A member of the Military & Aerospace Electronics staff since the magazine's founding in 1989, Mr. Keller took over as chief editor in 1995.
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