Friday, May 17, 2013

AFDX Card

AFDX is the acronym for Avionics Full Duplex Switched Ethernet. It is based on the on the shelf commercial ethernet technology with the modification to increase its reliability and deterministic making it relatively on-time.

The picture on the left gives example of the AFDX card supplied by the manufacturer.

The followings are the information supplied by the manufacturer.


1. It is On-board AFDX® protocol stack implementation
2.  Airbus and Boeing AFDX® compliant protocol stack
 3. Two full duplex AFDX networks that can be operated in either independent or dual-redundant mode
 4. Comprehensive error injection/detection, filtering and triggering features
 5. Applicable on PCI, cPCI, PXI, PCIe & VME hardware platforms
 6. Driver & API support for Windows, Linux or VxWorks

The picture is given to improve the understanding of the networking system used on the aircraft.






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