Alta Data USB-MA4 USB 1553 and ARINC appliance

Alta Data Technologies has released an innovative USB MIL-STD-1553 and ARINC-429 appliance: the USB-MA4. The product connects notebooks, desktops and servers with 1553 and ARINC networks via USB 3.0 SuperSpeed. This is useful as current USB 2.0 interfaces can have serious throughput issues.

About the size of a deck of cards, the product provides 1–2 dual redundant 1553 channels and/or eight ARINC-429 channels. In addition to 1553/ARINC full RX/TX message controls, it can generate or capture (o-scope) raw bus signals for protocol and electrical troubleshooting.

Along with flexible, layered SDK, AltaAPI and AltaView Windows analyser, users can quickly integrate the USB-MA4 for their avionics application. For most applications, the user can port existing Alta applications to the product with little or no code changes.