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ARINC 818 standard is the industry standard for high-speed digital video and audio transmission over fiber-optic cables. ARINC 818 was created to enable organizations to simultaneously transmit multiple streams of digital data while maintaining a single picture and sound quality. With its low latency and high signal integrity, it is used in a wide variety of applications such as aircraft flight control systems

ARINC 818 Made Easy

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ARINC 818 Standard

Learn ARINC 818

Use the form below to access the following ARINC 818 tools:

 

  • ARINC 818 Implementer's Guide (revised)

Updated in July 2018 to cover current hardware. Implement ARINC 818-2 into a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). This 36-page guide provides engineers with an introduction to the protocol, information on FPGAs and serializer/deserializers, and a discussion of timing classes. Learn how to structure and sequence data to implement an ARINC 818 transmitter.

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  • Training Video

View a 30-minute narrated overview of the protocol and applications from one of the writers of the ARINC 818 specification.

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  • ICD Template

Ensure interoperability between ARINC 818 devices by using a common interface control document (ICD). We've gone through the ARINC 818 specification and mined the parameters needed to customize your implementation.

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  • ICD Examples

View ICDs for common video resolutions such as 1024x768 (XGA), 1280x1024 (SXGA), and 1400x1050 (SXGA+).

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  • Timing Calculator 

Determine the timing parameters you need to fill out an ICD: video line and frame timing, division of video lines into packets, packet spacing, and more.

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