Condor Engineering in Santa Barbara is offering the company’s latest ARINC 708 databus interface (P-708) for weather radar applications. The P-708 simultaneously supports two ARINC 708 channels-each of which operates as an independent transmitter or receiver with programmable frame size and buffer storage capacity. Specialized receive features include frame time-tagging and error detection/notification of short/long frames, sweep scheduling, programmable frame-gap duration, and short/long frame and start/stop sync error injection. With a programmable number of bits per frame, the P-708 is for a wide range of 1-MHz Manchester-encoded applications. Condor provides integrated support for this module on PCI, CompactPCI, VME, VXI and native PMC platforms. An easy-to-use, high-level software API (Application Programming Interface), is included with support for Windows XP, 2000, Me, NT, 98, 95 and VxWorks (x86 and PPC). The API is also provided in C source code for ease of integration. For more information contact Condor online at www.condoreng.com.
