Fc-ae-1553 Bridge Chip Research - Fibre Channel Interface Module

Fibre Channel is a high performance data transfer interfase used between the system and the IO device.It has the character of low latency,high bandwidth and long distance transmission. There are a great deal of companys which are manufacturing FC product used in commercial field.Inorder to use Fibre Channel in the avionics system,FC-AE workgroup is founded to research and establish the starded.We have researched the MIL-STD-1553 bus for about 20s years and it become the leading bus in the aerocraft of G2 and G3.Inorder to upgrade the avionics system with Fibre Channel and keep the compatibility with MIL-STD-1553 bus, the need of Protocol Bridge that can convert the data between FC-AE-1553 and MIL-STD-1553 appeared.Inorder to implement the chip of Protocol Bridge, three issue need to be figured out: 1) the Fibre Channel network access of the protocol bridge chip, 2) the map of protocol between FC-AE-1553 and MIL-STD-1553 bus protocol, 3)1553 bus interface of the protocol bridge chip. This article is a research on the Fibre Channel network access. First, we put forward the blue print of the protocol bridge chip, include the logic constitution of the protocol bridge, the architecture of the hardware and software of the protocol bridge.Then we designed and implemented the Fibre Channel network access of the protocol bridge, include the hardware and software. The hardware is based on the FPGA and it can send and receive Fibre Channel frame. The software manages the exchange and the sequence, send and receive the sequence. The software also includes the IP Core driver.Finially, we simulate and implement the hardware design based on the Virtex2 FPGA of the Xilinx Company and the validity of the hardware design is proved.