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US 2013/0211813 A1Published application
Smart-store emulation unit
AssigneeRaytheon Company
InventorEdward H. CAMPBELL
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Abstract
A smart-store emulation unit is provided for use on-board a weapon platform in place of the physical presence of a smart-store. The emulation unit may be used for operator training on or testing of the smart-store on-board an operational weapon platform such as an aircraft, tank or ship.
Claims21
A smart-store emulation unit for use on-board a weapon platform in place of the physical presence of a smart-store, said unit comprising:
- a first mating connector comprising a plurality of pins for connection to a platform connector;
- a first interface including power lines and a plurality of signal lines defined on the first connector pins;
- a digital processor configured to emulate the smart-store, said processor configured to execute a Launch Acceptability Region (LAR) module to compute and dynamically update the store's LAR and to execute an Interface Control Document (ICD) emulation module to mimic the functional behavior of the smart-store in response to operator or platform requests and to provide the LAR to the platform;
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- a first I/O hardware between the digital processor and the first interface for signal conversion and distribution between the digital processor and the first interface power lines and signal lines.
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A smart-store emulation unit for use on-board a weapon platform, said unit comprising:
- a first mating connector comprising a plurality of pins;
- an AGM-65 analog interface including power lines and a plurality of signal lines defined on the Cast connector pins;
- a second mating connector comprising a plurality of pins;
- a MIL-STD-1760 digital interface including power lines and a plurality of signal lines defined on the second connector pins;
- a bidirectional 1760-to-AGM-65 digital-to-analog translation module to translate between AGM-65 and 1760;
- a Launch Acceptability Region (LAR) module configured to compute and dynamically update a 1760 store's LAR;
- a first Interface Control Document (ICD) emulation module to mimic the functional behavior of a 1760 smart-store in response to operator or platform requests and to provide the LAR to the platform;
- a GPS navigation system to provide coordinates and other navigation data to the LAR module;
- a digital processor configured to execute an AGM-65 Control Mode and an AGM-65 Training mode in which said weapon platform comprises a platform AGM-65 analog interface and said first connector is connected to a platform connector,
- a first I/O hardware between the digital processor and the AGM-65 analog interface for signal conversion and distribution between the digital processor and the AGM-65 analog interface power lines and signal lines;
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- a second I/O hardware between the digital processor and the MIL-STD-1760 digital interface for signal conversion and distribution between the digital processor and the MIL-STD-1760 digital interface power Fines and signal lines;
- wherein in said AGM-65 Control Mode said second mating connector is connected to a smart-store comprising a MIL-STD-1760 digital interface, said digital processor executes the translation module to control data transfer between the platform and the smart-store;
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- wherein in said AGM-65 Training Mode said digital processor executes the LAR module, first ICD emulation module and translation module to emulate the 1760 smart-store for the AGM-65 platform.
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A smart-store emulation unit for use on-board a weapon platform in place of the physical presence of a MIL-STD-1760 smart-store, said unit comprising:
- a first mating connector comprising a plurality of pins for connection to a platform connector;
- a first interface including power lines and a plurality of signal lines defined on the first connector pins;
- a digital processor configured to emulate the smart-store, said processor configured to execute an Interface Control Document (ICD) emulation module to emulate the functional behavior and 1760-compliant message traffic of the smart-store in response to operator or platform requests;
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- a first I/O hardware between the digital processor and the first interface for signal conversion and distribution between the digital processor and the first interface power lines and signal lines.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.