SSDTU

Adding Speed and Ease of Use to Your Data Transfers

Supporting Universal Serial Bus (USB) and Secure Digital (SD) media, the Solid-State Data Transfer Unit (SSDTU) streamlines data upload and download equipment for your aircraft.

Easily accessible, high-speed media ports are conveniently located in the faceplate, allowing for quick data file transfers between a USB drive or SD card and the aircraft’s avionics systems. The SSDTU interfaces with up to eight Universal Avionics Line Replaceable Units (LRU) creating a centralized uploading / downloading center for:

• Flight Management System (FMS) databases and Internal Flight Data Recorder (IFDR) downloads
• Terrain Awareness and Warning System (TAWS) terrain, airport and obstacles databases
• Vision-1™ Synthetic Vision System databases
• Charts, checklists and E-DOCS for the Application Server Unit (ASU) and its predecessor, Universal Cockpit Display (UCD) system
• UniLink™ Communications Management Unit (CMU) databases
• Flight Data Recorder (FDR) download
  

Data files are transferred between the media ports and interfacing LRUs using a high-speed Ethernet data bus connection. To accommodate a variety of aircraft configurations, the SSDTU is available in fixed-mount and portable versions.

The SSDTU is designed to eliminate the dependence on obsolete floppy and ZIP disks required by the DTU and DTU-100, as well as the CD/DVD-ROM of the Accessible Data Unit (ADU).

• USB flash drive and SD card support
• Ethernet ports for quick data upload/download
• Centralized data transfer to and from multiple LRUs
• Lightweight, solid-state hardware
• Fixed and portal versions

Hardware

• Bezel Size: 2.25 in. H x 5.75 in. W
  
• Depth: 7.76 in. (back of bezel to rear of connector)
  
• Weight: 2.4 lbs.
  
• Mounting: Dzus
  
• Faceplate Color: Gray or Black
• Hard-wired to NCU

Data

• Format: Digital
  
• Input: SD Card or USB Flash Memory
  
• Bi-directional data transfer via 10/100 Mb Ethernet

Power

• 27.5 VDC nominal
  
• 28 Watts nominal

FAA TSO/ETSO

• TSO C109
  
• ETSO C109

System Architecture