The ARINC 629 computer bus was introduced in May 1995 and is used on the

Boeing 777 The Boeing 777, commonly referred to as the Triple Seven, is an American long-range wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It is the world's largest twinjet. The 777 was designed to bridge the gap betw ...

. The ARINC 629 bus operates as a multiple-source, multiple-sink system; each terminal can transmit data to, and receive data from, every other terminal on the data bus. This allows much more freedom in the exchange of data between units in the avionics system. ARINC 629 has the ability to accommodate up to a total of 128 terminals on a data bus and supports a data rate of 2 Mbit/s. The ARINC 629 data bus was developed by the Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee (AEEC) to replace the

ARINC 429 ARINC 429, "Mark33 Digital Information Transfer System (DITS)," is also known as the Aeronautical Radio INC. (ARINC) technical standard for the predominant avionics data bus used on most higher-end commercial and transport aircraft. It defines the ...

bus. The ARINC 629 data bus was based on the Boeing DATAC bus. Cary Spitzer. "The Avionics Handbook". Daniel A. Martinec
"Chapter 2: ARINC"

References

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