Barco highlights its know-how at Farnborough International with several innovations for the cockpit environment
Barco boosts its avionics product line with a series of five innovative new display products
FARNBOROUGH INTERNATIONAL, UK, 19 July 2004 – At this year’s edition of the Farnborough International Exhibition, Barco has highlighted its expertise in avionics technology by introducing five new display products for the cockpit environment. The innovations include a sophisticated Cockpit Information Terminal, an easy-to-use Cockpit Maintenance Terminal, a bright 5” x 7” Cockpit Head Down Display, powerful Hazard Avoidance Display software and the latest MOSArtTM evolution, integrating a Digital Moving Map functionality. The newly launched products are key additions to Barco’s existing product line. With this major expansion of its portfolio, the company consolidates its position as a leading provider of full cockpit solutions.
For the consultation of the aircraft’s maintenance information, Barco has engineered CMT, a sophisticated Cockpit Maintenance Terminal. The CMT is derived from the terminal developed for the A380. It comes as a DO-160 qualified laptop computer, integrating PentiumÒ III processing power, a state of the art Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display and an ergonomic keyboard. With its clear 15” XGA display, the CMT offers users a clear view on the aircraft’s avionics health status, through its link with the onboard servers.
Barco’s new CHDD-5.7 is the latest member of its line of video Cockpit Head Down Displays. The unit provides pilots with a variety of navigation, mission, radar, FLIR or other real time video data on a bright 5 x 7 inch Liquid Crystal Display. The compact and powerful CHDD-5.7 can be configured as a video display with RGB (Red-Green-Blue) or LVDS (Low Voltage Data Signal) inputs from the mission processor. Thanks to its flexible, open architecture the CHDD-5.7 easily accommodates upgrades to meet the rapidly changing customer needs. With the introduction of the CHDD-5.7, Barco’s CHDD family now consists of three versions: the CHDD-5.4 (5 x 4 inch), the new CHDD-5.7 (5 x 7 inch) and the CHDD-6.8 (6 x 8 inch). Larger sizes are under development.
Barco’s avionics engineers have also developed new Hazard Avoidance Display (HAD) software, which enables the clear and concise display of several types of safety information, such as traffic, weather, terrain and flight management on one display. The HAD component makes use of Barco’s sophisticated processing unit to combine data from many sources into a simple format, thus offering total situational awareness to the aircrew. The HAD features an open, modular architecture and can be combined with a full range of avionics displays in several sizes and configurations.
Furthermore, Barco presented the latest evolution of its MOSArtTM Modular Open System Architecture, including D-Map, an advanced Digital Moving Map function. Barco’s D-Map software brings aircrew members unprecedented situational awareness by combining a large number of map formats and overlay capabilities. Thanks to its integration into Barco’s Processing Unit and Multi-Function Displays, the Digital Moving Map is a high-performance, robust and affordable solution that helps system integrators and aircraft manufacturers to keep cost, weight and power consumption low, while improving the overall system availability.
About Barco
Barco, an international company headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, provides visualization and display solutions for professional markets. Barco designs and develops solutions for large screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection. Barco has a network of subsidiaries, distributors and agents in almost 100 countries. Barco is quoted on Euronext Brussels and is a BEL 20 and a Next 150 company
