QuickLogic, Sital Partner to Develop Core for MIL-STD-1553 for Military Uses
May 2, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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QuickLogic Corp. partnered with Sital Technology to optimize the Sital MIL-STD-1553 controller design for the QuickLogic ViaLink programmable fabric. The MIL-STD-1553 bus is used in military and avionics applications such as heads-up displays, radar and weapons systems.
The controller design will become part of the QuickLogic proven system block (PSB) library for military-grade tools using the PolarPro family of programmable platforms.
The MIL-STD-1553 PSB manages all the communications on the bus to and from an attached device. The PSB can act as a bus controller, remote terminal or monitor terminal interface to the bus, and offers a choice of interfaces on the back end.
The PSB can provide compatibility with older chipsets that have interfaces targeting legacy controllers, replacing the legacy device in an existing design without requiring any software changes, QuickLogic said.
For new designs a simpler, streamlined interface is available, allowing communications over the bus simply by reading and writing registers.
"Our long-standing military customers are looking for proven MIL-STD-1553 solutions that provide cost-effective flexibility with the long product lifecycles required by their market," said Mehul Kochar, business development manager at QuickLogic.
"Optimizing our design into a PSB for QuickLogic's programmable fabric will help give a long life to military and civil aerospace designs by removing the risk of parts becoming obsolete as technology changes," said Duli Yariv, Sital marketing director.
The partnership includes development of the PSB and will support interface customization for unique designs when needed.
The MIL-STD-1553 interface PSB will be available in 3Q 2008.
Source: QuickLogic Corp.