DECEMBER 2020AEROSPACEDEFENSEREVIEW.COM19time Ethernet FPGA interface to their proven 1553 and ARINC PEs and released a new product line of network bridge converters: ENETs. "We recognized that Ethernet is the dominant network technology in Aerospace systems, and there was an unfulfilled demand for real-time 1553 and ARINC Ethernet converters. We responded with the ENET product family and it has been an unmatched success with 1000s of deployed units. There is nothing else like ENETs for performance, size and cost," says Harry Wild, VP of Sales for Alta.Alta's product advancement continues with recent releases of the industry's only native ThunderboltTM and USB 3 appliances. The same layered SDK can run on these products as with their first PCI-1553 product released in 2007. This is indeed an epitome of portability. The customer's application doesn't even need to know which Alta device is being controlled from PCI Express to ENETs because software objects are abstracted to maximize application reuse, resulting in significant cost savings for customers.In August, Alta announced another new series of products that required the development of advanced electronic and packing designs: NLINE (in-line). As the name suggests, Alta embedded the entire 1553/ARINC control electronics into an extremely rugged cable harness with Ethernet, Thunderbolt, and USB 3 interfaces, all controlled by the same advanced AltaAPI SDK."The NLINE product line continues our effort to design better, smaller, cheaper for our customers; how can we reduce our customer's integration effort, platform management and life cycle costs?" states Wild. "It's embedded in our culture to continually improve our products and processes." Our advanced PEs and signal testing functions are being utilized for everything from simple message scheduling to complex protocol validation and detection of security threats, which is a hot requirement in this complicated cyber world
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