ARINC 818 Project? - Call the Experts at GRT! Over the last 10 years, GRT has worked on more FCAV (now ARINC 818) projects that anyone in the world. In fact, when it comes to ARINC 818, Great River Technology is a pioneer in implementing the protocol across a wide range of frequencies and applications. GRT's FCAV boards and development tools are used by companies such as Airbus, Boeing, Honeywell, EADS, Rockwell Collins, Smiths Aerospace and more.
Frame Grabber and Camera Emulator GRT's GRAV64 cards are used as Graphics Generators to light up displays, and as Frame Grabbers to capture or display ARINC 818 video streams. The ARINC 818 Standard is based on FC-AV. These cards offer bandwidth up to 3.1 Gbps with the flexibility to meet a wide range of formats and implementations. Fibre Channel provides a reliable, high bandwidth video link for video networks, point-to-point video connections (Multi Mode - 500 meters / Single Mode - 10km), or high EMI environments. Each card is Fibre Channel compliant at the FC-0, FC-1, and FC-2 layers. The upper layer protocol is based on the FC-AV container system (ANSI INCITS 356-2002).
The cards have two 16 MByte (ping and pong) image stores such that PCI can access image memory during live transmit and receive. The GRAVITY FCAV-PCI and GRAVITY FCAV-PMC cards have dedicated SXGA video ports so that incoming video can be viewed live without loading the PCI Bus.
Features:
64-Bit/66 MHz PCI ver 2.2 Compliant
PCI Interface will work in either +5V or +3.3V backplanes
The GRAV64 PCI card can both transmit and receive ARINC 818. As a receiver card (shown in Figure 1.1), it has a dedicated SXGA output port for viewing full motion video (received from fiber) without loading the PCI bus. The SXGA output ports are compatible with standard monitors. As a transmitter (as shown in Figure 1.2), images are loaded via PCI and are transmitted over the fiber cable. Images can be loaded or modified while the transmitter is active, therefore, the cards can be used to transmit static images or video that is updated at the bandwidth limits of PCI.
DVI Converters DVI to ARINC 818 or ARINC 818 to DVI
The GRAVITY FCAV-PCI-DVI and GRAVITY FCAV-PMC-DVI cards have DVI (Digital Video Interface) input ports that can be directly connected to any graphics card with DVI output. These cards provide the means to transfer real-time full motion rendered graphics onto fiber.
They convert live XGA or SXGA DVI video streams from COTS graphic cards into FC-AV video streams. The DVI video may be real-time rendered graphics and/or video from stored MPEG files. In either case, the uncompressed digital video is inserted into FC frame per FC-AV recommendations.
Test Software
GRT provides FCAV Test – a free Windows based test application for configuring Receiver or Transmitter cards. This applications is great for the laboratory and production floor use. Users can quickly configure a receiver card to capture ARINC 818 video and display it on a VGA monitor or on the software GUI. Test patterns or images are easily loaded into transmitter cards, and sent with or without scrolling bars.
Software Development Kits
Users with demanding applications will appreciate GRTs Windows or Linux based development kits that allow quick deployment of real-time image and data acquisition systems, cockpit display emulators, graphics generators or other video intensive applications. Customized VxWorks support can be purchased for your target hardware.
