The networked electronic ordnance system connects a number of pyrotechnic
devices to a bus controller using lighter and less voluminous cabling, in
a more efficient network architecture, than previously possible. Each
pyrotechnic device contains an initiator, which includes a pyrotechnic
assembly and an electronics assembly. One or more pyrotechnic devices
each contain a logic device having a unique identifier. The pyrotechnic
devices are individually controlled by the bus controller by addressing
the unique identifier of each logic device. Each pyrotechnic device
preferably includes an energy reserve capacitor which stores firing
energy upon arming. Both digital and analog fire control conditions are
provided before an armed pyrotechnic device can be fired. A plurality of
initiators and/or other components of the system may be packaged together
on a single substrate and networked together via that substrate.