ARINC 828 "Electronic Flight Bag (EFB

Electronic flight bag

Electronic Flight Bag is an electronic information management device that helps flight crews perform flight management tasks more easily and efficiently with less paper...

) Interface" is a document containing the description of a series of physical connectors based on MIL Spec 38999 which can be used to connect EFBs of all hardware classes with aircraft.
ARINC 828 combines classical aircraft interfaces like discretes, ARINC 429

ARINC 429

ARINC 429 is the technical standard for the predominant avionics data bus used on most higher-end commercial and transport aircraft. It defines the physical and electrical interfaces of a two-wire data bus and a data protocol to support an aircraft's avionics local area network.-Messages:ARINC 429...

 or ARINC 717 buses with PC technology like USB

Universal Serial Bus

USB is an industry standard developed in the mid-1990s that defines the cables, connectors and protocols used in a bus for connection, communication and power supply between computers and electronic devices....

, DVI

Digital Visual Interface

The Digital Visual Interface is a video interface standard covering the transmission of video between a source device and a display device. The DVI standard has achieved widespread acceptance in the PC industry, both in desktop PCs and monitors...

, LVDS and Ethernet

Ethernet

Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks commercially introduced in 1980. Standardized in IEEE 802.3, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies....

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ARINC 828 was adopted in September 2007. A successor, called ARINC 828 Supplement 1, is supposed to appear in late 2008. It should include data formats and protocols allowing to access services like cockpit installed terminals, printers or air-ground networks.