CISWORKS A429 Custom Device

The CISWORKS A429 Custom Device is used to connect to Sycos ARINC 429 cards in NI Realtime and NI VeriStand. The ARINC cards are available in different configurations (4TX-4RX, 8TX-8RX, 16TX-16RX, 32TX-32RX).
They are also available in different form factors (PCI, PCIE, cPCI). The configuration of up to 32 ARINC buses can be done directly in NI Veristand. Bus configurations can be exported as XML and imported into other NI VeriStand projects.
This series of Arinc 429 PCI interfaces offers the user fixed configurations:
  • Sy429PCI-RT44 (4Tx, 4Rx)
  • Sy429PCI-RT88 (8Tx, 8Rx)
  • Sy429PCI-RT24 (12Tx, 12Rx)
  • Sy429PCI-RT32 (16Tx, 16Rx)


  • Properties
  • Configured with 4, 12, 16 or 32 channels
  • At least 4 ARINC-429 broadcast channels
  • At least 4 ARINC-429 receive channels
  • 1 k x 4 bytes cyclic data buffer per channel
  • Individual channel speed selectable
  • Choice of odd, even, or no parity
  • Internal loopback for testing
  • Interrupts on received ARINC-429 data
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