Industry First Miniature Board for 10Mbit RS-485 MIL-STD-1553 Interfaces

Alta Data Technologies LLC (Alta) announced today the release of a new product for AS5652 Enhanced Bit Rate (EBR) 10Mbit 1553 interfaces: MEZ-EBR. The MEZ-EBR is a small mezzanine circuit board that allows customers to easily integrate AS5652 RS-485 interfaces in their embedded or custom designs. EBR interfaces are growing in popularity and this new product provides a low-cost, quick-design option for test or deployed platforms. The MEZ-EBR mezzanine card provides AS5652 Link or Spec modes for Bus Controller, Remote Terminal (RT), or composite Bus Monitor for up to eight RS-485 RT connections. The customers’ FPGA or processor interfaces to the MEZ-EBR via 1000 Ethernet host interface, which for many embedded designs, is easier than routing memory, serial, or PCIe busses. By utilizing standard Ethernet, the software implementation is much easier than other options. The MEZ-EBR design package includes reference schematics and 3-D STEP files.