[5] AgustaWestland company use ARINC 661 for the development of a new Touchscreen unit in the upgraded Merlin helicopter for the Royal Navy.
ARINC 661 does not imply the use of a particular Data bus structure to perform the low-level communication between CDS and UA.
Although the DF File is binary, the standard has also defined an associated XML definition, which is easier to manipulate in tools.
[12] Main similarities from other User interface markup languages: Main differences from other User interface markup languages : The following example presents the XML Definition File for a Layer containing a panel enclosing a label, which shows the text "Hello World!".
Ansys (at the time Esterel Technologies[13]) announced on October 13, 2010, the availability of SCADE Solutions for ARINC 661 in 2011.
The GL Studio ARINC 661 Toolkit is a plug-in to GL Studio HMI Toolkit that delivers a set of pre-existing customizable widgets, a DF Generator, CDS, Communication Libraries, and a User Application Generator.
Flexible Software Solutions introduced COTS developing, testing and analysis tools for ARINC 661 protocol at the beginning of 2012.