Intelligent Platforms (NYSE:GE) today announced that it had secured
orders from Lee Air of Wichita, Ks for substantial quantities of GE’s
CEI-430 high density ARINC 429 intelligent interface for PC/104™-Plus
which will be deployed within Cessna aircraft avionics systems.
“GE has a long history of delivering leading edge embedded avionics
solutions - MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429, AFDX or ARINC 664 - to aircraft
manufacturers,” said Benton Daniel, Leader, Avionics Business Unit at GE
Intelligent Platforms, “helping them to deploy their projects into
military and commercial environments around the world.”
The CEI-430 provides complete, integrated databus functionality for up
to 24 channels of ARINC 429 or 575 along with ARINC 717, 573 and other
selected 2-wire, 32-bit protocols, on a PC/104-Plus or PCI-104 platform.
The CEI-430 supports maximum data throughput on all 24 ARINC 429
channels while providing on-board message scheduling, label filtering,
multiple buffering options, time-tagging and error detection.
Configurations with support for ARINC 717, ARINC 573, and IRIG-B
receiver (AM or DC/TTL) and generator (DC/TTL) support are optional. The
IRIG-B DC level output signal can be utilized to synchronize time stamps
across multiple boards. Ruggedized configurations with extended
operating temperatures are also available.
About GE Intelligent Platforms
GE Intelligent Platforms is a General Electric company, headquartered in
Charlottesville, VA and part of GE Energy Management. The company’s work
in the military/aerospace segment, headquartered in Huntsville, AL, and
Towcester, England, provides one of the industry’s broadest ranges of
high performance, rugged, SWaP-optimized embedded computing platforms.
Backed by programs that provide responsive customer support and minimize
long term cost of ownership for multi-year programs, GE’s solutions are
designed to help customers minimize program risk and cost, and to speed
time-to-market. For more information, visit defense.ge-ip.com.
About GE
GE (NYSE: GE) works on things that matter. The best people and the best
technologies taking on the toughest challenges. Finding solutions in
energy, health and home, transportation and finance. Building, powering,
moving and curing the world. Not just imagining. Doing. GE works. For
more information, visit the company's website at www.ge.com.
For more information: http://defense.ge-ip.com/products/avionics/c139
For more technical information: http://defense.ge-ip.com/products/cei-430-rcei-430a/p1023
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