Holt Integrated Circuits has intro’d their ADK-1592, a development kit designed to help customers interface Holt’s recently announced HI-1592 rad-hard transceiver with a MIL-STD-1553 protocol controller or FPGA.
The HI-1592 is latch-up immune and proven to withstand a single-event upset (SEU) with an LET of at least 67.7 MeV-cm2/mg. It is radiation tolerant to a total ionizing dose (TID) of 100 krad(Si) and is ideal for launch vehicle, high-altitude aircraft and low orbit satellite applications using MIL-STD-1553 data bus communication. The device is also the world’s first rad-hard MIL-STD-1553 transceiver to feature 1.8V, 2.5V and 3.3V compatible digital I/O, giving users more flexibility to interface with a broad range of FPGAs and controllers.
The development kit is easily connected to an external 1553 controller board via an industry standard PMOD port. This port connects the controller digital transmit and receive signals needed to interface the transceiver with a MIL-STD-1553 bus. An alternative connector is available which provides access to additional digital transceiver signals, such as Rx Enable and Tx Inhibit. The kit ships with DIP switches set for PMOD port use by default.
The transceiver board loops back the digital transmit signals to the controller and connects to a MIL-STD-1553 bus for direct or transformer-coupled configurations via the on-board triaxial bus connectors.
Select products are available to DSCC SMD specifications. Holt also offers product compliant to the EU Directive 2011/65/EU (“RoHS 2”). Holt Integrated Circuits is AS9100D:2016 and ISO 9001:2015 registered.
“Holt recognizes the value our customers place in simple out-of-the box device evaluation tools and reference designs,” said George Noh, Director of Sales and Marketing at Holt Integrated Circuits. “This simple kit provides customers with the ability to interface their controller or FPGA with a 1553 bus, providing a valuable tool for software development and transceiver evaluation.”
About Holt Integrated Circuits
Located in Aliso Viejo, California, Holt Integrated Circuits is a major supplier of ICs for avionics and military aircraft data bus and display applications. The company’s products are specified by more than 400 manufacturers worldwide and are employed in flight control, navigation, engine management, communications, safety equipment, and in-flight entertainment systems. Holt’s range of ICs supporting the ARINC 429 standard is the widest in the industry, and its MIL-STD-1553 transceivers are recognized as the industry’s smallest, having the lowest power consumption. In addition, Holt MIL-STD-1553 integrated terminals offer the most compact, cost effective solution available, integrating protocol, transceiver and transformers in a single 15x15mm package. Holt also offers its MIL-STD-1553 protocol as a DAL A, DO-254 Certifiable IP Core. Other data bus products include ARINC 717, CAN (ARINC 825), Ethernet, RS-485/422, discrete-to-digital and analog switches.
