EXHIBITOR PRESENTATIONS

Exhibitor Presentations are open and FREE of charge to all visitors and delegates, throughout the exhibition opening hours.

Wednesday 21st March
11:00 am - TE Connectivity
11:45 am - National Instruments
1:00 pm - PTC
1:45 pm - Atego
2.30 pm - Northrop Grumman LITEF GmbH
3:15 pm - Vector Informatik GmbH

Thursday 22nd March
10:00 am - Goodrich Sensors and Integrated Systems
10:45 am - HR Smith
11:30 am - MBS
1:45 pm - MEN Mikro Elektronik GmbH

TE Connectivity 
Advanced Avionics Interconnect Technology 
Overview of new avionics interconnect technologies, including VITA 46 VPX, VITA 61 XMC 2.0, VITA 62 VPX Power Supply, VITA 66 Fiber Optics for VPX and VITA 67 Coaxial Interconnect for VPX, as well as overviews of next generation products such as Fortis Zd backplane interconnect and Ceelok Fas-T, the industry's premier rugged 10GbE connector. 
Speaker: Gregory Powers, Market Development Manager 


National Instruments 
Software-defined Instrumentation Leveraging COTS Technologies 
Software-defined instrumentation offers a high degree of flexibility for prototyping as well as for testing avionic systems. The presentation will focus on the technical background of the modular PXI platform, which enables powerful high-speed data streaming, phase-coherent RF measurement and playback , spectrum monitoring, signal characterization and more by leveraging COTS technologies. 
Speaker: Frank Wiedmann Director Business Development & Systems Engineering, Europe

PTC 
Delivering Innovative High Consequence Embedded Software On Schedule With Integrity, A PTC Product 
Embedded software in commercial and military avionics has become the key driver of innovation in the 21st century, but this trend is accompanied by monumental challenges including safety, quality, compliance, and product line management.  Integrity, a leading ALM solution, enables engineering organizations to efficiently and effectively address these challenges in a single software system lifecycle management platform.  
Speaker: Steven Denman Senior Solutions Marketing Specialist

Atego 
Model-based development of ARINC653 using UML and SysML in a DO178-C environment 
The paper presentation will try to bridge the worlds of IMA, ARINC 653 and UML/SysML modeling of systems and software in a pragmatic way. Using Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA), the goals are similar to normal systems or software modeling using UML and SysML: Minimize life cycle costs and enhance the systems and software quality. For integrating IMA concepts into the field of RTOS usage, ARINC 653 is aimed to standardize this, including the definition of configuration data for the complete application. Our presentation will show the transition from traditional, federated architecture indicating its typical trap falls to an object-oriented IMA network architecture with appropriate layers modeled, re-using best practice concepts of modeling using UML and SysML. This includes perspectives showing the IMA hardware and software elements in a model annotated additionally by an ARINC 653 profile. We will also show how model-to-text transformation from the enriched model can be used to automate consistent configuration generation and how this can be further on enhanced to integrate model-based approaches with principles in the upcoming DO-178C. 
Speaker: Andreas Korff  

Northrop Grumman LITEF GmbH
Inertial/GNSS Navigation Systems for RNP
Benefits of tighltly coupled GNSS/Inertial Hybridization for RNP procedures.
Speaker: Klaus Blatter, Product Manager    

Vector Informatik GmbH 
Systems Engineering and Functional Safety – The Way Forward 
Key words: systems engineering, functional safety, model-based systems engineering, assessment and validation of safety critical systems 
Speaker: Albert Habermann Project Manager

Goodrich 
Sensors and Integrated Systems EFBs in NextGen and SESAR 
Overview of the use of EFBs in NextGen and SESAR airspace: EFB system architecture and certification requirements,  EFB applications utilizing ADS-B In and CPDLC technologies, NextGen and SESAR ADS-B demonstrations programs using EFBs. 
Speaker: Jim Schmitz Director, Business Development, EFB/Cockpit Data Management Systems

HR Smith 
Enhancements in Emergency Beacon Technology 
SAR Emergency Beacons 
Speaker: James Churchill European Sales Executive

MBS 
The Data Loading Evolution 
The Data Loading Evolution: from the floppy disk age into a modern IT supported era 
Dataloading in commercial aircrafts is one of the most antiquated and obsolete areas left over from the early times of digital data processing of airborne equipment. The media to transfer data into “flying boxes” is still the outdated 1.4 MB floppy disk.  This presentation gives an overview how state-of-the-art technology enters an area in aerospace where traditional techniques and methods can no more exist and do not make sense anymore.
Speaker: Hans-Joerg Steinmaier Sales & Technology
    
MEN Mikro Elektronik GmbH 
Design and deployment of COTS computers in safety critical avionics applications  
How standard products can be integrated with safe software and deployed in safety critical projects 
Speaker: Detlef Schaadt