GUI Software Rides 1553 Data Bus

Data acquisition, mission loading, LRU testing, and data-bus debugging on the MIL-STD-1553 data bus through the bus controller, remote terminal and bus monitor modes of firm's 1553 solutions boards is facilitated with GoldExpress, a GUI interface software package for use with the Gold and Gold+ solutions interfaces. The software uses a common top-level menu to access overlay modules specific to each card in the series. Its user-friendly GUI format allows users to perform many high-level MIL-STD-1553 bus analysis functions, such as: real-time display and disc capture of bus activity; real-time data modification; full error injection and detection; support for multiple MIL-STD-1553 channels and single and multifunction hardware; and support for Windows 3.X and Windows 95. Users can independently define and MIL-STD-1553 data to be captured or displayed and control the manner in which event data is displayed. Specific, user-defined engineering units can be applied to each data value, attaching immediate meaning to output data.