A High Speed Bus for Pave Pillar Applications

841456

10/01/1984

Event
Aerospace Congress and Exposition
Authors Abstract
Content
A new high speed data bus is urgently needed in military aircraft to offset the dramatic increase in dedicated wiring harnesses and to accommodate the need for greater information flow, resource sharing, and fault tolerance.
To satisfy that need the Air Force has awarded the High Speed Bus Technology Development contract to develop and validate high speed digital bus network designs, including T/R units, bus couplers, and media operating at 50 megabits per second.
Under that contract a linear token-passing bus is being implemented in both wire and fiber optics. Present technology does not allow the fiber-optic bus to be implemented as a linear random access bus, therefore it is being implemented as a star. The definition of both buses resulted from a number of analyses to determine the practical limits of a linear wire bus and a fiber-optic star.
A special feature of the bus being developed is that the basic terminal is compatible with both wire and fiber-optic media.
Meta TagsDetails
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/841456
Pages
16
Citation
Ludvigson, M., and Milton, K., "A High Speed Bus for Pave Pillar Applications," SAE Technical Paper 841456, 1984, https://doi.org/10.4271/841456.
Additional Details
Publisher
Published
Oct 1, 1984
Product Code
841456
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English