Airbus A380 Superjumbo Flight Test and Simulation AFDX test and simulation replaces ARINC 429 data bus
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.
- AMCC 460EX
- Curtiss-Wright SVME/DMV-183
- Curtiss-Wright SVME/DMV-184
- Emerson MVME7100
- Extreme Engineering XPedite6032
- Freescale HPCN Evaluation and Development Platform
- GE Fanuc DSP220
- GE Fanuc DSP230
- GE Fanuc PPC7A
- GE Fanuc PPC7D
- GE Fanuc PPC8A
- General Microsystems Golden-Eye s702
- Kontron PENTXM2
- Kontron VMPC6a (single processor)
- Kontron VMPC6c (single processor)
- Kontron VMPC6d (single processor)
- Webinar: Latest Release of LynuxWorks' Safety-critical DO-178B-certified RTOS, Mar 24
- Avionics Europe 2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Mar 24-25
- LynxSecure Real-time Applications and Device Driver Programming Workshop, San José, CA, USA, Mar 30-Apr 2
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