THE ARINC 818 STANDARD

The Velocity XMC ARINC 818 card is a ruggedized product design for embedded computer products and SBC (Single board computers). The XMC form factor allows itself to be mounter on a variety of carrier cards such as VPX for modular systems.

The Velocity XMC is intended to support implementations of ARINC Specification 818-2: Avionics Digital Video Bus (ADVB) for transporting digital video. ARINC 818 provides a reliable, highbandwidth video link for video networks, point-to-point video connections (up to 500 meters using multi-mode fiber and up to 10 kilometers using single-mode fiber). The card can be ordered for a link speed of 1.0625, 2.125, 3.1875, 4.25, 6.375, 8.5 and 10.0 Gb/s The cards can receive or transmit ARINC 818 video. The cards have a total data storage of 256 megabytes (MB). This allows for two 128MB image stores which allows seamless video capture or transmission.  The cards have a dedicated HDMI port so that incoming video can be viewed live without loading the PCIe bus or HDMI imagery can be captured onto the XMC card for retransmission over ARINC 818.  

Velocity XMC supports an 8-lane PCI express (PCIe) interface that can achieve ~4 Gbytes/S transfer rates in a rugged form factor. 
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