S3DP Development

With the S3DP range of data processors, typically SES supplies qualified hardware, operating system and required drivers, allowing third party development and integration of dedicated software, producing a complete solution for the end customer.

The variety of software options supported by the S3DP ensure that the product is equally suitable for a standalone Windows Software application or a complex multi-tasking real-time system.

Typical applications addressed by customers to date include:

• Loading: S3DP computers have been used for data loading over Ethernet and Arinc-429 with Data Input through removable ATA flash and USB drives.

• Flight Computers: Significant processing, floating point computation and memory manipulation capability has allowed the S3DP to be employed in general purpose computing requirements.

• LRU: Specialist equipment such as datalink processors or protocol converters use the S3DP as a flight qualified Line Replaceable Unit (LRU).

• Usage Monitoring: The S3DP has been configured as a Useage monitoring Device in Land Vehicles, allowing maintenance crew to evaluate the loading scenarios to which the vehicle has been subjected.

• Systems Information Exploitation: Within the concept of Generic Vehicle Architeture, S3DP processors have been selected as compliant processing modules for the monitoring of onboard systems as well as vehicle components.

• Display Controllers: Through its ability to interact with a variety of display types, the S3DP processor has been selected to control the display of information provided to a pilot or crew during a mission. Provision of Open-GL libraries has ensured that applications developed using user interfacing prototyping tools such as VAPSTM can be ported across to a flight qualified platform.