The Airbus A380 Superjumbo jet is the largest Airbus yet, seating 555 passengers. The first flight of the A380 took place in April 2005 from Blagnac Airport, Toulouse, France. For flight test and simulation, Airbus specified the Avionics Full Duplex switched Ethernet (AFDX) standard, as an alternative to the ARINC 429 data bus—for lower cost, better performance, more flexibility and broad applicability in aircraft and avionics systems.
Creative Electronic Systems (CES) developed a range of AFDX hardware modules for Airbus with the LynxOS real-time operating system at their core. Included is a PowerPC® VME processor board capable of controlling up to six AFDX PMCs, using PMC extension boards. A complete solution for A380 flight testing features 25 PowerPCs working in parallel. LynxOS' POSIX® conformance has helped Airbus' contributing equipment vendors assure compatibility of their subsystems.
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