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Modular Avionics Backplane Functional Requirements and Consensus Items (MABFRACI) (Stabilized: May 2012)
standard by SAE International, 05/03/2012

SAE AIR4980A – Modular Avionics Backplane Functional Requirements and Consensus Items (MABFRACI) (Stabilized: May 2012)

This document has been declared “Stabilized” and will no longer be subjected to periodic reviews for currency. Users are responsible for verifying references and continued suitability or technical requirements. New technology may exist.

The original purpose of this document was to establish interface requirements for modular avionics backplanes to be prototyped up to 1995. The document was issued as ARD50011 in September 1992. It is being reissued as an SAE Aerospace Information Report (AIR) in order to: a. preserve the requirements for more than 2 years; b. support design of retrofits and avionics systems to be fielded in the years 1995 to 2000; and c. provide a baseline for updating the requirements of future integrated systems.

These requirements were and are intended to promote standardization of modular avionic backplane interfaces. These requirements have been driven predominantly, but not exclusively, by aerospace type military platforms.