Interfacing a legacy data bus with a wideband wireless data resource utilizing an embedded bus controller

A system for interfacing a legacy bus with a wideband wireless data transport mechanism, the system comprising:

• a legacy bus interface in communication with the legacy bus, wherein the legacy bus is a MIL-STD 1553 bus;
• a wireless transceiver module in communication with the wideband wireless data transport mechanism, the wireless transceiver module being compliant with a wideband wireless data communication protocol used by the wideband wireless data transport mechanism;
• and
• a processing module configured to provide a bridge between the legacy bus interface and the wireless transceiver module via an input/output subsystem;
• wherein
• the processing module is operable to receive legacy data from the legacy bus via the legacy bus interface, to request a wireless resource maintained by the wideband wireless data transport mechanism for at least a portion of the legacy data, and to control transmission of the legacy data using the wireless resource, wherein the legacy data is in a legacy format compliant with MIL-STD 1553;
• and
• the processing module comprises a bus controller module configured to control traffic on the legacy bus via the legacy bus interface.

A method of interfacing a MIL-STD 1553 data bus to an IEEE 802.16(e) wireless data resource with a legacy interface comprising a bus controller module and a wireless remote interface unit, the method comprising:

• receiving a message intended for a MIL-STD 1553 device on the MIL-STD 1553 data bus via the IEEE 802.16(e) wireless data resource;
• converting, at the wireless remote interface unit, data conveyed in the message into at least one data word in a legacy format;
• controlling traffic on the MIL-STD 1553 data bus with the bus controller module to transfer the at least one data word between the wireless remote interface unit and a MIL-STD 1553 device on the MIL-STD 1553 data bus;
• and
• repeating the controlling step until all of the data conveyed in the message is transmitted on the MIL-STD 1553 data bus.