What is the difference between a channel and a device?

The AltaAPI and card level Protocol Engines (PEs) are unique in the industry where each 1553 channel or bank of ARINC channels is a unique logical device. In the AltaAPI Users Manual, these are referenced as a “DEVID”. Separate logical devices allow multi-application support, usually one application thread per device. This is unique and powerful as most other products […]