ICP
Interface Control Processor
RADA’s Interface Control Processor (ICP) is an essential and powerful core avionics building block of modern avionics suits for Medium Altitude Long
Endurance (MALE) and High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAVs).
The ICP provides a bridge between several MIL-STD-1553B communication
channels and hundreds of varied I/O interfaces including: discretes, analogs and
various serial digital channels. It is configurable to platform-unique I/O operation
through external control.
Modern UAV avionics architectures, built around powerful Flight Control
Computers (FCC) and Mission Computers (MC), are enabled through the
incorporation of a distributed set of ICPs. The ICPs free the FCCs and MCs from
I/O processing and data management tasks, reduce aircraft wiring and weight,
and significantly increase overall mission reliability. They implement high bandwidth closed-loop control algorithms under FCC commands, and provide status feedback
to the FCC.
Due to modern board connectivity solutions, the ICP is extremely compact.
It introduces advanced conductive cooling techniques, and is qualified to extreme
military environment.
Advantages
- Supports triple-redundant avionics architecture
- Provides handling of 270 I/O signals within a compact and lightweight single unit
- Frees Flight and Mission Control Computers from I/O interface workload
- Configurable by the avionics integrators
- Implements high bandwidth, closed-loop control algorithms
- High Reliability and Affordability
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