How to Bridge an ARINC-Based System to Modbus TCP

Trying to connect your ARINC based system with a PLC? Can your engine test cell’s PLC control system control your ARINC FADEC? UEI has the solution.

Everything you Need to Know About 429 Scheduler

Understand the basics of 429 Scheduler with the help of our resident expert, Phil Zevitas.

The Guardian Series Advantage

UEI's Guardian Series brings system monitoring to a whole new level.

June 7, 2023 | UEI Blog | Weather Data & UEI Solutions

Weather data is essential for humans to stay safe and prepare for what's next. Weather data is also vital to commercial and defense organizations to properly plan, prepare and respond to changing weather conditions. UE's embedded control & logging solutions are used for collecting a wide variety of weather data in harsh environments.

UEI in Flight

5/10/22 We are looking forward to seeing many avionics professionals this week at the VTOL Forum 78 and ETTC shows. It’s evident that the avionics world is pushing technology forward. UEI is ready to meet your avionics testing needs to give system architects the ability to design systems with confidence. Here's a snapshot of our avionics customers, solutions and recent customer news.

UEI ON BOARD: Our Impact in Transportation Test & Control

8/11/22 We will be at GVSETS 8/16-8/18 in Novi, MI (Ground Vehicle Systems & Tech Symposium). We partner with many automotive test engineers and look forward to learning more about recent trends. As we prepare for GVSETS this month, we focused on vehicles and the challenges facing the industry today.

ARINC-429 Tutorial and Reference

ARINC-429 deployment option

UEI Announces ARINC-664 Avionics Communications Interface Board

United Electronic Industries (UEI) today announced the release of a new dual-channel ARINC 664 (Avionics Full-Duplex) switched Ethernet communications interface board.

New High Performance 24 Channel ARINC 429 Board from UEI

United Electronic Industries (UEI) today announced the release of the DNx-429-516 ARINC 429 interface for use with UEI’s Cube and RACKtangle chassis. With 24 RX and 16 TX channels coupled to a high-performance FPGA, the board provides unprecedented flexibility to record, playback, process, and test their ARINC-429 traffic.

WxPD support added to UEI’s ARINC-708/453 interfaces

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce it has added WxPD support to its popular DNx-708-453 avionics interface. WxPD is a Honeywell developed interface between flight computers and digital displays typically used in weather radar and EGPWS (Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning Systems) applications.

United Electronic Industries Announces The Release Of Its New High Performance ARINC-429 Interface with 16 TX Channels

United Electronic Industries (UEI) today announced that its new high performance ARINC-429 interface I/O board, the DNx-429-516, is available for purchase. This 16-channel board is fully compliant with the ARINC-429 specifications and supports both high speed (100 kHz) and low speed (12.5 kHz) operation.

Avionics Test, Simulation, and Control Hardware

Application Story: UEI & Tyonek Global Services, LLC, HUMS

Tyonek Global Services, LLC needed a flexible, rugged, and accurate data acquisition device that would be used to collect the information from the various sensors within the Bell UH-1N Huey Helicopter for Health Usage and Monitoring (HUMS) purposes. Learn more.

Webinar | Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) for Avionics

Watch Recorded Webinar Video

Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 10:00 am - 11:00 am EST

The What, Why, and How to Verify Your Device

In this webinar, we will explore Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) is an avionics environment, why is it important and the comparison to ARINC-664 and the IEEE 802.1DP avionics TSN profile. Understanding this will assist in our discussion of verifying your new TSN-enabled device and the various TSN protocols.

Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Solutions

Webinar: The Language of Avionics - Effectively Transmit, Process & Monitor Avionics Data

On Demand Now | presented May 20, 2021

UEI Releases Volume 12 Product Catalog

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce the release of Volume 12 of their popular product catalog. Larger than ever at 44 pages, the latest catalog is filled cover-to-cover with information on the company’s ever-expanding product line, as well as a number of new application stories and a helpful FAQ section.

Application Story: UEI and NASA NEAT Aircraft Testbed

UEI Releases Volume 11 Product Catalog

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce the release of Volume 11 of their popular product catalog. Continuing to grow, the latest edition of the catalog is 40 pages.

Aerospace Success

United Electronic Industries (UEI) provides high performance I/O and avionics systems for the commercial and defence aerospace industries allowing our customers to build smart, reliable, flexible and rugged solutions. With over 25 years of proven experience, our I/O systems are ideally suited for a wide variety of aerospace DAQ, test, measurement and control applications.

UEI Releases Part 2 of the Introduction to DAQ White Paper

United Electronic Industries (UEI) has released Part Two in their three-part series of white papers called, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Data Acquisition.”

New Embedded Controller CPU includes IEEE-1588 synchronization, Solid-State Drives & Hardware Encrypted Security

United Electronic Industries (UEI) today announced the UEIPAC series of standalone embedded controllers now offers an optional 8347E CPU. This version includes IEEE-1588 synchronization, solid-state hard drives up to 32 Gigabyte, hardware-based Ethernet encryption plus twice the RAM, and 32 times as much FLASH memory.

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4-Channel High Speed Strain Gage Input Boards

United Electronic Industries (UEI) announces the release of the DNA/DNR-AI-224, high speed, four channel strain gage input boards for UEI’s data acquisition and control Cubes and RACKtangle I/O racks respectively.

10-channel electromechanical relay interface

United Electronic Industries (UEI) announces the release of the DNA/DNR-DIO-470, 10-channel, high-current, electromechanical relay boards for use with UEI’s “Cube” and RACKtangle® I/O series respectively.

United Electronic Industries Announces New UEINet™ Series Ultra Compact Gigabit Ethernet I/O Module

United Electronic Industries (UEI) today unveiled its new UEINet™ SeriesEthernet I/O module (Cube), an ultra compact data acquisition, control and I/O platform housed in a 2.7” x 4.0” x 4.1” chassis.

UEI Releases PowerDNA Software Suite 4.0

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce the release of PowerDNA Software Suite 4.0. Version 4.0 adds new asynchronous modes of

operation for certain layers, support for 64-bit editions of Windows (Including Windows XP, Vista, and 7) and also adds full support for...

UEI-RSS Serial Server makes PowerDNx serial devices accessible as standard Windows or Linux serial ports

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce the release of the UEI-RSS Serial Server. The new software makes UEI’s

popular line of PowerDNx DNx-SL-501 and DNx-SL-508 devices accessible as standard Windows or Linux serial ports.

4-Port Synchronous Serial Interfaces

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce the release of the DNA- and DNR-SL-504 4-Port Synchronous Serial Interface boards.

4-channel IEPE/ICP® Vibration Sensor Interface Board

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce the release of the DNA-AI-211 analog input board. The board features 4 fully isolated, IEPE/ICP® accelerometer / vibration sensor channels and offers 24-bit resolution with a 109 dB signal to noise (S/N) ratio.

UEI Releases 12-Channel Relay Output Boards

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce the release ofthe DNx-DIO-4×2 series 12-Channel Electromechanical Relay Output boards, for their popular Cube and RACKtangle I/O Chassis.

UAV/UAS Data Acquisition and Control Solutions

DNx-DIO-449: Meet the world’s most flexible Digital Input Board

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is proud to announce the release of the DNx-DIO-449, 48 channel, digital input board. The board is compatible with all of UEI’s popular Cube, RACKtangle and FlatRACK chassis.

DNR-6-1G HalfRACK

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce the release of the DNR-6-1G 6-slot, portable, Ethernet I/O chassis. Developed in
response to customer requests for a smaller version of the popular DNR-12-1G RACKtangle™ 12-slot front-access 3U chassis, the DNR-6-1G
offers all the features of the 12-slot model in a half-rack-width configuration.

United Electronic Industries Announces New Military/Aerospace-Specified Data Acquisition and I/O Control Platform

United Electronic Industries (UEI) today announced the DNA-PPC6-1G-MIL (Cube), an advanced military/aerospace-specified data acquisition and I/O platform housed in a compact 4.1” x 4.0” x 6.75” chassis.

New UEI Volume 9 Product Catalog

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce the release oftheir Volume 9 product catalog. The free catalog details UEI’s innovative Cube and RACKtangle I/O chassis and how they may be deployed as Ethernet I/O systems, standalone data loggers, Programmable Automation Controllers (PACs), Simulink targets, and Modbus TCP slaves.

United Electronic Industries Announces Two Rugged, Mil-Grade Data Acquisition and I/O Control Platforms

United Electronic Industries (UEI) today announced two new military-grade DAQ (Data Acquisition) and I/O Control platforms. The DNR-MIL and DNA-MIL are designed for MIL-STD-461/810/1275 compliance and deployment in environmentally harsh applications...

4-channel LVDT/RVDT Interface Boards

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce the release ofthe DNx-AI-254 LVDT/RVDT interface boards. The boards are available in two models — one for use with UEI’s popular PowerDNA Cube and another for rack-mounting in a PowerDNR RACKtangle chassis.

16-Channel, 24-bit, Simultaneous Sampling 
Analog Input Boards

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce the release of the DNA- and DNR-AI-217 high speed, high resolution analog input boards. The boards provide 16 fully differential channels of 24-bit, ±10 volt (gain=1) analog input and one single-ended dedicated channel for thermocouple cold junction compensation.

UEIPAC v2.0 Linux-based PAC now available in All UEI PPC-Based Chassis

United Electronic Industries (UEI) today released Version 2.0 of its UEIPAC Programmable Automation Controller.

UEI Announces IRIG-B Timing Generation and Synchronization Interfaces

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce the release of the DNA- and DNR-IRIG-650 Timing Generation and Synchronization Boards.

8-Channel, Strain Gage Simulator Boards

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce the release of the DNx-AO-358 simulated strain gage output boards. The boards are available in two models — the DNA version, for use with UEI’s popular PowerDNA Cubes and the DNR version, for rack-mounting in a PowerDNR RACKtangle or HalfRACK chassis.

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2-Channel Synchro/Resolver Interface Boards

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce the release ofthe DNx-AI-255 Synchro/Resolver interface boards. The boards are available in two models — one for use with UEI’s popular PowerDNA Cubes and another for rack-mounting in a PowerDNR RACKtangle or HalfRACK chassis.

UEILogger™ Series high performance data logger/recorders now offer faster logging, larger data storage, and additional functionality

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce that its popular UEILogger series now offers increased logging speeds (up to 15x faster), data storage, and functionality.

UEI Announces FLATRACK™ 1U DAQ/Embedded Control Platform

United Electronic Industries (UEI) today announced the release of an innovative Ethernet-based data acquisition (DAQ) and control platform. The DNF-4-1G FLATRACK is a highly integrated, low-profile DAQ I/O engine made to accommodate a growing need for greater system programmability, functional versatility and scalable deployments.

DNx-AI-218 and DNx-AI-228-300, 8 channel, 24-bit fully isolated A/D boards

United Electronic Industries (UEI) announces the release of four new analog input boards. All four of the boards offer 8 analog input channels, 24-bit A/D resolution and 120 kilosample/second maximum sampling rates.

COLBERT Treadmill for NASA Space Station

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce that NASA has selected the UEIPAC Cube to perform an essential role in controlling the COLBERT treadmill in the new space station exercise facility.

White Paper: A Modern Alternative to Reflective Memory and VME

United Electronic Industries (UEI) has released a new white paper/case study/application note that highlights the benefits of using UEI’s Ethernet RACKtangle and Cube I/O Chassis instead of Reflective Memory and VME.

UEI Technical Master Class Series: Online Recurring Education

Every other Thursday | 11:00 AM EST | Online

16-Channel 115 Volt Analog Output Buffer/Amplifier

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the PD-AO-AMP-115, a 16-channel, 115 V, analog output buffer amplifier for use with UEI’s Cube and RACKtangle I/O systems.

UEI Releases Volume 10 Free Short-form Product Catalog

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce the release of Volume 10 of their popular catalog. Bigger than ever, the new catalog details UEI’s innovative Cube and RACKtangle I/O chassis, including the new HalfRACK chassis.

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Aerospace Test & Development Show | September 19-20, 2023 | Toulouse, France | Booth #618

The Aerospace Test and Development Show will bring together manufacturers of aerospace components, complete aircraft, space exploration vessels, urban-and inter-urban passenger drones, and air-defence systems to discuss and showcase technologies, techniques, and services that will reduce product failure, decrease product development cycles and costs, and improve performance and reliability.

Erik Goethert, UEI Sr. Director BD & Strategy, will be speaking about Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) for Avionics on 9/19/23 12:30 p.m., at the Aerospace Test & Development Show 🚀 in Toulouse, France.

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Programmable Automation Controllers Feature ARM Processors and New HMI Features

United Electronic Industries (UEI) today announced the release of its 4th generation stand-alone and embedded controllers. The UEIPAC G4 features an ARM i.MX6 processor. The new ARM processor provides 5 times the CPU horsepower than previous versions of the UEIPAC system.

FlightSafety International Installs First Sim I/O-Equipped, Flight Simulator

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce that FlightSafety International has received Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), Level D Qualification on its first SimI/O equipped simulator. The Hawker 900XP simulator’s I/O system is based on UEI’s RACKtangle I/O

chassis.

MIL-STD-1553 for Military & Aerospace

USAF Selects UEI for UH-1N HUMS Upgrade

United Electronic Industries (UEI) today announced the UEI-HUMS1 in-flight health monitoring system has been released for production delivery to Tyonek Global Services, and subsequent installation onto USAF aircraft.

Data Acquisition Systems

UEIPAC – Programmable Automated Controller

Vertical Take Off and Landing Tutorial and Reference Guide

VTOL and eVTOL Tutorial and Reference Guide

VTOL | eVTOL | Vertical Take Off | Vertical Landing | Unmanned | Autonomous | Tiltrotor | Multirotor | Lift and Cruise | VTOL Test Systems

July 18, 2023 | UEI Press Release | United Electronic Industries (UEI) Cybersecurity Tools Designed to Keep Critical Applications Safe and Secure

Norwood, MA. United Electronic Industries (UEI), a leading provider of cutting-edge data acquisition, test, and control hardware solutions, is thrilled to introduce a host of new cybersecurity solutions available for its systems. Specifically designed to meet the stringent security requirements of aerospace and defense industries, these enhancements offer unparalleled data protection, secure boot, secure key generation and storage capabilities, FIPS 140.2 encryption, Trusted Platform Module (TPM) integration, and more to help you on your way to NIST 800-213 compliance.

Read the full press release.

The Benefits of UEI's Zynq Processor

Quad-core ARM cortex - A53, 64-bit processor combined with a user programmable Xilinx FPGA | 4 GByte, 64-bit DDR, 8 GByte FLASH | Cybersecurity ready | TPM

Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) for Aerospace & Defense

Our Story

Overview of UEI's history

US Navy selects UEI to provide I/O Controller for LCAC SBC4 upgrade

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is pleased to announce the US NAVY has selected the company’s DNR-MIL series I/O control chassis in conjunction with its VxWorks BSP as the new Command, Control, Computers, Communication and Navigation (C4N) SBC4 Control, Alarm and Monitoring System (CAMS) for the LCAC fleet.

Digital Twinning Tutorial Page

COTS for Data Acquisition, Test & Control Systems

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Rugged Data Acquisition Hardware

Commercial Aviation

UEI offers a wide variety of I/O solutions designed to meet the stringent requirements of the commercial aviation industry. Whether you need a distributed DAQ system, a local test platform or an embedded controller/recorder we have the system you need.

Health & Usage Monitoring (HUMS)

UEI enables your sensor-based monitoring system to measure theperformance and health of your mission critical components.

Military Aviation

UEI offers a wide variety of I/O solutions designed to meet the demanding requirements of military aviation. Whether you need a distributed DAQ system, a local test platform or an embedded controller/recorder we have the system you need.

Engine Test

UEI’s systems are well suited for many types of engine test applications. Whether you are collecting high-speed dynamic data or monitoring vibration, temperature and strain, UEI has your application covered.

Space 4.0

UEI I/O systems support space applications from the launch pad to the International Space Station and everywhere in between. Whether your application is military, NASA, or for one of our many commercial space customers; UEI’s Cubes and RACKtangles have become a staple in this industry.

VISTAS

The VISTAS protocol was designed by the aerospace industry to simplify cabling on test benches and in hardware integration labs.

Simulators / Trainers

UEI offers all the necessary elements to control all aspects of a simulator and/or trainer, including analog and digital linkage I/O, avionics and communications interface busses as well as a real-time Ethernet based software interface.

Distributed DAQ & Control

UEI offers a wide assortment of data acquisition and control products based upon Ethernet interfaces, including PCI and PXI.