Commercial Standard Digital Bus Explained

The Commercial Standard Digital Bus (CSDB) is a multidrop bus, formerly known as the Collins Standard Digital Bus. The maximum speed is 50 kbit/s.

Most civilian aircraft use one of 3 serial buses: the Commercial Standard Digital Bus (CSDB),[1] ARINC 429, or AS-15531.

The Commercial Standard Digital Bus is a two-wire asynchronous broadcast data transmission bus. Data is transmitted over an interconnecting cable by devices that comply with Electronic Industries Association (EIA) RS-422A. The physical layer is EIA-422.

Messages on the CSDB consist of one address byte followed by any number of data bytes.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Cary Spitzer."The Avionics Handbook".Lee Harrison.Chapter 3: Commercial Standard Digital Bus
  2. http://www.interfacebus.com/Avionics_CSDB_Interface_Description.html "Commercial Standard Communications Bus"