SBIR-STTR Award

Mathtech has developed a digital Advanced Inter-Communications System (AICS) for the E-2C aircraft. The AICS is an Ethernet-based system with many user-friendly features, and both weight and cost savings over competing systems. This proposal describes our approach to architecture and options for converting the AICS to a fiber optic bus.

Benefits:
There is increased interest in the use of fiber optic voice and data transmission in military aircraft. Commercial applications include all aircraft as well as other industrial applications.

Keywords:
Avionics, Communications, Ethernet, Inter-Communications Systems, Fiber Optics, Data Bus Protocols

Mathtech will convert our Advanced Inter Communications System from an Ethernet bus to a Fibre Channel bus. The Fibre Channel interface will optionally run off of switched fabric or arbitrated loop protocols. We will develop unique software required for the interface to multiple Fibre Channel protocols and to ICS data traffic, and to control the dual redundant red and black bus interfaces.

Benefits:
Avionics of the future are increasingly linked to fiber backbones in military aircraft. The ICS resulting from this development will be compatible with the Fibre Channel protocols for fiber optics as well as with the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) radio messaging protocols.

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