ATMOS-561, Transmit & Bus Monitor Software for Sycos PC-AT cards

 

 

General:

ATMOS-561 is a generic software package that was developed in support of Sycos PC-AT Interface cards to provide a powerful, yet easy to use facility for testing, simulating and monitoring ARINC-561 bus traffic. The software is written under DOS and supports the Sy561PC-22 hardware product.

The system consists of several closely related application programs that support:

 Test and Simulation

o        Preparation

o        Execution

o        Data presentation

 Bus Monitoring

The Test and Simulation facility is controlled via a Sub-Menu from which the various facilities can be accessed. These facilities include the following:

 Define Formats

 Define Display Table

 Create Tx Data

 Define System Set-Up

 Define Transmit Schedule

 The Test and Simulation System

o        Preview Tx data

o        Transmit data

o        Receive data and store to file

o        Review Rx data

o        Display Rx and Tx data

ARINC-561 data formats define the type of data the bit-fields within each labelled ARINC word represent. The types of data included are:

 SSM - Sign / Status Matrix

 BCD - Binary Coded Decimal

 BNR - Binary Numeric data

 SBNR - Signed Binary Numeric data

 DIS - Discrete data

 HEX - Hexadecimal

 PAD - Data padding

 GPS - GPS type data format

In practice the same data format can be used for many separate ARINC labelled words. ARINC-561 data formats that are frequently used can be stored in files to be called upon as required.

The facility for defining data Formats gives the user the full freedom to define data formats according to the application.

Information that describes the data displayed on the screen can be input by the user and stored in a Display File, from where it can be called when required. This information includes:

 Label

 SDI

 Name - Label Name

 Units - Main parameter Units

 Display - Display Label (Yes / No)

The flag, 'Display? Yes or No', provides a simple means for quickly changing the Labels required for display. The user can define the display data for 64 separate ARINC labelled words in a single display file. Labels for display can then be selected from this 'library' as required by simply changing the display flag.

The simulation of ARINC-561 bus traffic requires the user to specify the Transmit Schedule and data for transmission. Facilities are provided to support the user with both of these requirements.

The facility for defining Transmit Schedules allows the user to define the period for each minor frame and the labels to be transmitted.

64 separate data values can be defined for scheduled transmission. The rate at which the transmit system increments through the data is under the control of the user. In this way, the data for transmission can be varied according to the requirement.

The configuration of the system for Test and Simulation is defined in the System Set-Up file. This System Set-Up file identifies the files that store data, define schedules for transmission and define labels for display. All of these files are prepared, prior to running the Test and Simulation facility.

A facility has been included to enable the user to display on the screen all data formats in a particular format file.

The Bus Monitoring program provides a simple means to monitor the ARINC-561 receive channels.

The Bus Monitoring program makes use of the interface hardware and how it can automatically store data in memory by reference to channel, label and SDI values.

The program provides facilities to clear and display the memory.

After the memory is cleared, the reception of any label/SDI combination on a particular channel can be identified by examining the appropriate memory location. Each memory location will hold the last corresponding Label/SDI combination the corresponding memory location will remain in the cleared state.

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Ordering Information and Variants:

 ATMOS-561 (DOS) :

ARINC-561 Test and MOnitoring Software support for Sycos PC-AT cards

 ATMOS-429 (DOS) :

ARINC-429 Test and MOnitoring Software support for Sycos PC-AT cards

 ATMOS-575 (DOS) :

ARINC-575 Test and MOnitoring Software support for Sycos PC-AT cards

 

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