GE Intelligent Platforms BusTools/AFDX ® Features BusTools/AFDX is a Windows XP/2000-based GUI application solution that establishes new • Easy-to-use, intuitive, multi-window displays levels of power, flexibility and ease-of-use for • Traffic sorter view with Auto-Discovery AFDX (Avionics Full Duplex Switched Ethernet) • Simultaneous real-time monitoring traffic monitoring, analysis and simulation. and logging Available for use with GE Embedded Systems’ • Create Message Structures via XML powerful CNIC interface or a standard NIC importing or drag-and-drop card, BusTools/AFDX offers an intuitive inter- face to view, log, analyze and generate AFDX • Apply Message Structures to End System, network traffic at the Adapter, End System, Virtual Link (VL) and Port views Virtual Link (VL) and Port levels. • Display message data in Engineering Units • Flexible AFDX Frame Analysis with statistics Auto-Discovery • High-resolution Timestamping Starting from the Network Discovery window, Message Structure definitions, and then moni- • Advanced, multi-level triggering and filtering GE Embedded Systems’ exclusive, high-level tor Data Elements in real-time with engineering Auto-Discovery feature provides the user unit displays. View real-time statistics – packet • Log data simultaneously at Port, VL or All with an immediate overview of all network count, byte count and bandwidth. Capture, view Traffic levels traffic. Utilizing a familiar “Tree” view, you and dissect data from multiple levels simulta- • Replay (or loop) previously captured files can instantly drill-down thru Adapters, End neously in engineering units or hex. Received and apply message structures to view data Systems, VLs and Ports to quickly survey packets are time-tagged with 20 nanosecond • Supports GE Embedded Systems’ CNIC or your network configuration. Simply select the resolution for analysis or playback. Logged data standard NIC interfaces level you wish to view, then right-click, and can be replayed or looped with accurate timing. BusTools/AFDX gives you immediate context GE Embedded Systems’ CNIC interface is the menu access to packet summaries, dissected only AFDX interface currently available in the packets (MAC/IP/UDP headers, message industry that supports the most demanding structures, etc.) and raw hex data. Each layer ADFX traffic without data loss (full-rate with of data is presented in resizable windows that small packet sizes and large numbers of VLs can be easily organized to meet individual and ports). Contact GE Embedded Systems user requirements. for actual test results. Simultaneous Real-Time Monitoring and Filters and Triggers Logging BusTools/AFDX provides advanced filtering Coupling BusTools/AFDX with GE Embedded and triggering functionality that is supported Systems’ two-channel CNIC interface gives by a simple and intuitive user interface. As you the power of our exclusive pipelined DMA with many other BusTools/AFDX features, Fil- architecture. BusTools/AFDX simultaneously ters and Triggers are structured in a supports real-time monitoring while logging hierarchical fashion in the form of “Trees.” fully loaded traffic to disk storage. Apply BusTools/AFDX simultaneously displayed in real-time moni- BusTools/AFDX Features tor viewers. Advanced Boolean logic filtering • View AFDX bus traffic at Multiple Levels - All Traffic tools can be applied to Message Structures, - Virtual Link Traffic and intuitive, drag-and-drop techniques may - By Port be used to manually create AFDX Datasets, - All incoming packets are time-stamped Message Structures and Port assignments. • Configure and View AFDX Message Structures Captured/logged AFDX data is presented in - Define Message Structures composed of Data Sets - Define Data Sets composed of AFDX variabletypes a three-panel user-configurable viewer. The - Assign Message Structures to AFDX Tx Port messages top panel provides a list view where each row - View AFDX message data in engineering units summarizes corresponding identification for - All frames can be viewed in hex each packet. The middle panel contains a • Configure and View Virtual Link Traffic - AFDX Frame Analysis “dissection” of an individual packet selected - MAC, IP, and UDP addressing formats in the top panel. Header and payload infor- - MAC, IP, and UDP AFDX Header Profile Analysis mation (in engineering units, if message - AFDX Frame Statistics structures have been applied) are displayed • Triggering and Filtering in the middle panel. The bottom panel dis- - Multi-level triggering and filtering on Port, VLID or All Traffic message streams plays a hex dump of the packet selected in - Based on Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) the top panel. - Filters and triggers are implemented as BPF filter Filters can be used to screen the packets expressions AFDX Traffic Generation - Uses trigger/filter Elements (relational expres according to complex Boolean rules and can be sions), trigger/filter equations (Boolean expres BusTools/AFDX can accurately replay (or loop) used during network traffic capture, both at the sions) and trigger sequences previously captured log files. To quickly cre- protocol level and at the Data Element level. - Trigger elements can be user-defined (message ate new files, Filters can be easily applied structures), or MAC, IP or UDP headers and addresses Triggers associate a condition with an action. while replaying a file and by logging again, a • Logging Triggers utilize Filters for activation and for revised file is created for traffic generation. - Log at Port, VL or All Traffic levels - Duration of capture: unlimited, max packets, max data reduction, and are easily used to bytes or max time Additional Features detect irregular conditions or to automate - Can apply filters or Start on trigger recurrent tasks. Users can analyze AFDX header protocol for- - Message structures may be applied tologged data. mats. Advanced Boolean logic filtering tools Data Centric Analyzer can be applied to reduce traffic while utilizing BusTools/AFDX utilizes a Message Structure/ triggering applied to packet headers or mes- DataSet/DataType architecture for managing sage content. your ICD information by translating packet payload data into engineering unit informa- Ordering Information tion. Packet Headers, Payloads and Message BT-AFDX Structures can be examined in the capture BusTools/AFDX Network Analysis Software for AFDX/ARINC 664 (Windows XP/2000) viewer while different Data Elements are About GE Intelligent Platforms GE Intelligent Platforms, a General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), is an experienced high-performance technology company and a global provider of hardware, software, services, and expertise in automation and embedded computing. 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