Honeywell Mark III manual

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 1 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Technical Overview For Mark III Communications Management Unit (CMU) 23 July 2002[...]

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HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 3 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Mark III CMU Overview Honeywell provides a family of Datalink products, ranging from the AFIS product for the business Jet market, to our Mark II and Mark III CMUs for the [...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 4 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. • Define uplink and downlink message formats • Define the format of printed messages • Specify trigger logic (i.e., OOOI) • Define the geographic area for specific frequency coverage [...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 5 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. time and money. However, to deliver the future datalink capability required by the airlines, both ground and airborne systems must have a transition to the next generation architecture. The M[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 6 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. includes such services as Providing world-wide Weather messages to the aircraft, as well as being an FAA approved distributor of messages such as Pre-Departure Clearances and ATIS. The Honeyw[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 7 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. 2 SYSTEM OVERVIEW 2.1 Hardware Overview The Mark III CMU is based upon the Multiple Application Processing System (MAPS) platform which is the new generation hardware that will be used for in[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 8 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Figure 1 Mark III CMU Front Panel ARINC 607 defines the Aircraft Personality Module (APM) which contains all aircraft and system configuration information. The APM is external to the MARK III[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 9 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Portable Data Loader 615 High speed ARINC 429 1 Baseline Ethernet Data Loader 615A Ethernet 10BaseT note 2 Growth PCMCIA --- PCMCIA 1 Baseline Notes: 1. Supports up to 2 total SDUs, whether A[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 10 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Satellite Communications (SATCOM) The Mark III CMU can be configured to interface with one or two ARINC 741 compliant Satellite Data Units (SDUs) via low speed ARINC 429, or can be configure[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 11 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Control and Display Unit (CDU) In the business jet and regional aircraft market place, there is limited cockpit pedestal real estate. Often, these aircraft are equipped with a 4-line-select [...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 12 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. 2.2.3 LRU Interfaces In general, the Mark III CMU can support any LRU that uses the ARINC 429 File Data Transfer Protocol or Williamsburg Protocol to communicate as an end system, as defined[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 13 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. an extensive amount of ARINC 429 broadcast data providing aircraft performance related data. All of the ARINC 429 broadcast data is available via the FIDB to be used by both the HGI and the [...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 14 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. future to define Warm and Hot spare requirements. This effort has not yet started. As the Mark III CMU hardware was designed to support Dual capability, Updated dual capability could be prov[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 15 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. through an automated code generation system specific to the target environment. Automated test scripts are also derived from the model database. (See Figure 6). The software architecture was[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 16 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Figure 7 Database Design The Flexible Input Data Base (FIDB) contains a list of all I/O parameters available for all aircraft within a fleet. The FIDB contains information regarding LRU sour[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 17 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. 2.4 Certification Honeywell received the 1 st FAA certification in December 2001. This initial certification was for Embraer aircraft. The Mark III CMU has since also been type certified by [...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 18 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. 3 FUNCTIONAL OVERVIEW The Mark III CMU is designed to provide complete datalink capability, providing interfaces and support to today’s installed equipment. In addition, Honeywell as well [...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 19 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. A758 Level Application Functions A Airline/AOC Applications and ATS Messages ACARS End System ARINC 620: AOC ARINC 620: AAC ARINC 623: ATIS ARINC 623: PDC ARINC 623: Oceanic Clearance B +ATS[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 20 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Once an AOC message has been viewed by the flight crew (and any required user action has been taken), it can be placed in one of 8 user defined review categories. ATC messages have a separat[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 21 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Once the downlink message has been sent, the message will be placed in the user defined review category specified for the message. System Pages The Mark III CMU provides a series of pages th[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 22 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. • Maintenance Memory Integrity: Verify that faults that are written to the maintenance memory are correctly retained in memory. • Over-temperature Monitor: Monitor internal LRU temperatu[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 23 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. kbps. 3 D8PSK TDMS Same as Mode 2 except the voice is now digitized and the Medium Access changes. Currently. Discussions are underway to determine if Mode 3 will be deployed. This is curren[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 24 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. support as part of the baseline the text Weather uplinks which has become standard use within the Air transport industry. ATN The industry has embarked on the definition of a new communicati[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 25 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. the addition of encryption algorithms in the future. As part of this work, Honeywell is currently under contract with the U.S. government to define long term concepts for encryption and auth[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 26 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. 4 DATABASES Honeywell pioneered the concept of airline reconfiguration and partitioned software for datalink systems in the early 1990s. The reconfiguration concept has continually evolved a[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 27 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Figure 10 FIDB Architecture The FIDB defines the same name for a given aircraft parameter (i.e., Air_Speed) regardless of aircraft type. In that way, the HGI and AMI can refer to Air_Speed w[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 28 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Figure 11 AMI/HGI Generation The GST offers a robust set of capabilities that allow the user to completely customize their AOC application. With the GBST, the user can control the functional[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 29 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. 4.2.1 Menus Since the AOC application is completely customizable, the user can define the set of menus that navigate through the various AOC datalink pages. Using the GBST Display Editor, th[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 30 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Screens, including menus, can consist of multiple (up to 9) pages. Note the 1/2 in the upper right corner of the Main Menu display indicating page 1 of 2. Pages are accessed by using the Nex[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 31 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. The GBST supports the screen layouts for both the standard ARINC 739 14 line MCDU/MIDU as well as supporting Honeywell’s 9 line CDU (used on various aircraft types such as the Embraer 135/[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 32 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. This discussion of the GBST and how it is used is equally applicable to both the AMI and the HGI. However, the HGI is only modifiable by Honeywell as it contains controlled data that require[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 33 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. In addition to the AOC screens defined by the AMI, and ATC screens defined by the HGI, there are additional menus screens within the Mark III CMU, referred to as System screens. The System p[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 34 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. 4.2.2 Uplinks For uplink messages, the user can define both the screen layout and the uplink message format. Figure 17 depicts an example screen layout for a Clearance Uplink. As part of the[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 35 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. When defining the format and characteristics of an uplink message (i.e., the decoding), the user can specify the elements within the message (see Figure 18), the properties of the message in[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 36 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Figure 19 Clearance Message References If a crew response is required, the user would typically create response action prompts, such as the ACCEPT and REJECT prompts shown in Figure 17. Sele[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 37 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. The user can also specify a REJECT REASONS action prompt, which allows the flight crew to specify the reason for rejecting the Clearance (see Figure 20). Figure 20 Reject Reasons[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 38 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. There are a number of different types of objects that can be placed on a display. As an example, for the Main Menu, page prompts are used to link to other pages. The Main Menu also used a co[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 39 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. 4.2.3 Downlinks The definition of the AOC downlinks is created using the GBST. The definition of downlink message screens and associated message formats (encodings) is the same as for uplink[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 40 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Like the Reject Reasons page, the Diversion Report Downlink display contains a scrolling prompt and a conditional display field that is only displayed upon a certain value of the scroll fiel[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 41 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Figure 24 Divert Message Elements Figure 25 Divert Properties[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 42 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. 4.2.4 Print Definition The user can define the print format for a message by specifying the field names and associated parameters. Figure 26 shows the print format for a Flight Initializatio[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 43 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Logic units can be used to specify OOOI conditions. OOOI logic can be as simple or as complex as the user requires. Figure 27 depicts a portion of an example logic unit for OOOI events. Figu[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 44 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. to use for message transmission. The user also can specify the set of VHF frequencies to use for that region. Figure 28 shows an example. Figure 28 Regions In this example, 5 regions are def[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 45 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Figure 29 US Map[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 46 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Figure 30 Areas The Mark III CMU GBST provides the next generation in Airline reconfiguration. It is specifically designed to provide airlines with the freedom and flexibility to customize t[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 47 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. 5 HARDWARE DESCRIPTION 5.1 Mechanical Design The MARK III is a modular design that consists of a number of circuit card assemblies (CCAs) which are enclosed in a lightweight aluminum chassis[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 48 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. 5.1.2 Processor CCA The processor circuit card assembly contains the MARK III core microprocessor, supporting logic circuits, and memory devices. Significant features of the A2 CCA are as fo[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 49 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. • Patented multi-layer microstrip/fiberglass high reliability printed wiring board (PWB • Analog Output Discretes • PCI BUS-based Connector 5.1.5 Spare CCAs (Growth) The MARK III provi[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 50 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Figure 32 Mark III Supported ARINC 429 Interfaces SDU/STU 1 MCDU 1 PRNTR 1 CMC FMC 1 General Data Cabin 1 Cabin 2 Spar e Spar e ADL Spar e Spar e Spar e VDR 3 XPDR 2 SDU 2 Gatelin k DCDU 1 7[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 51 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Figure 33 Mark III Supported Non-ARINC 429 Interfaces APM Local Program Pins Dataloade r Doors/Brakes/e tc Crew Alerts VHF (Operating in 716 Mode) APM Interface SDI PGM VHF PGM Data Loader D[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 52 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. 5.3 Mechanical Packaging 5.3.1 Unit Weight The MARK III LRU maximum weight is twelve pounds. 5.3.2 Unit Size The MARK III LRU is a 4-MCU box that meets the dimensional specifications in ARIN[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 53 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. 5.4 Environmental Specifications The following DO-160D categories will be used for the MARK III: Temperature and Altitude (DO-160D Section 4.0) Category A2, Partially controlled temperature,[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 54 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Waterproofness (DO-160D Section 10.0) Category X, Not Applicable Fluids Susceptibility (DO-160D Section 11.0) Category X, Not Applicable Sand and Dust (DO-160D Section 12.0) Category X, Not [...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 55 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Category A2, Pin Injection Tests (DO-160C Section 22.5.1) Waveform 3 (DO-160D Section 22, Figure 22-4), Voc/Isc = 250V/10A, and Frequency = 1 Mhz + 20%. Waveform 4 (DO-160D Section 22, Figur[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 56 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. Nominal +27.5 Vdc Minimum +20.5 Vdc Maximum +32.2 Vdc Nominal 50 Watts Maximum 100 Watts 5.5.3 28 Vdc Backup Input Power Requirements The MARK III does not require use of standby 28 Vdc Batt[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 57 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. 6 SUMMARY The Mark III CMU is a high-end system which provides the latest in both hardware and software technology, unequalled in the industry. In addition to the Mark III CMU, Honeywell als[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 58 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. The Mark III CMU has also been designed to support a future upgrade for new Gatelink technology. With the advent of commercialized 2.4 GHz spread spectrum wireless communication, a new techn[...]

HONEYWELL Aerospace Electronic Systems Page 59 Use or disclosure of information on this page is subject to the restrictions on the title page of this document. The Mark III CMU is designed to provide airlines with a hardware platform with the best growth potential of any system in the market. Not only does it contain significantly more processing p[...]