Ensco Avionics is demonstrating the IDataMap plug-in of its IData Windows-based modeling toolset at this year’s NBAA convention (Booth 4577). IDataMap is a digital moving-map generator that enables designers to quickly create prototypes of two-dimensional moving maps for safety-critical cockpit displays or in-flight entertainment applications.

IDataMap and the IData3D scene manager enable developers to create applications, such as in-flight entertainment, navigation systems and synthetic-vision displays that require geo-referenced information to be implemented. Using its 2-D and 3-D plug-ins, designers can use IDataMap and IData3D to create situational awareness displays with digital maps and primary flight displays with synthetic vision.

A single application developed using the Ensco toolset can be hosted on a variety of target systems, ranging from small smartphone-type devices to DO-178C-certified avionics cockpit displays and unmanned aircraft system ground control stations.

The company’s new product demonstration at the NBAA show is centered around IDataMap’s role in helping to improve pilots’ situational awareness capabilities. Ensco will feature “a few flavors of demonstrations,” according to the company, including a new embedded application running on a Freescale iMX6 processor. “What’s exciting about this is it’s a very small processor, a very small board,” said Larisa Parks, Ensco general manager for vision systems.