Airplane Information Management System
The Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) is the "brains" of Boeing 777 aircraft. It uses four ARINC 629 buses to transfer information. There are 2 cabinets on each plane (left and right).[1][2][3]
History
The Intel 80x86 processor was the first to be used for the system, in conjunction with a compiler and runtime system for the Ada programming language. Beginning in 1988 and continuing for a number of years, Honeywell Air Transport Systems worked together with consultants from DDC-I in collaboration to retarget and optimize the DDC-I Ada compiler to the AMD 29050 architecture for use in full scale development.[4][5] The Airplane Information Management System software would become arguably the best-known of any Ada project, civilian or military.[6] Some 550 developers at Honeywell worked on the flight system.[5]
Functions
Primary Functions
- Thrust controls
- Flight management functions
- Communications
Other Functions
- Primary Flight Displays
- Flight Data Recorder System
- Aircraft Conditioning System
See also
References
- ↑ "777 Family: Flight Deck and Airplane Systems". Boeing. Retrieved 2013-10-05.
- ↑ Witwer, Bob (April 1996). "System Integration of the 777 Airplane Information Management System" (PDF). Honeywell. Retrieved 2013-10-05.
- ↑ Morgan, Michael J. (2001). "The Avionics Handbook: Boeing B-777" (PDF). Honeywell. Retrieved 2013-10-05.
- ↑ Rehmer, Karl (2009). "The HADS Team". In Stellman, Andrew; Greene, Jennifer. Beautiful Teams: Inspiring and Cautionary Tales from Veteran Team Leaders. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly. pp. 299–312.
- 1 2 "Boeing Flies on 99% Ada". Ada Information Clearinghouse. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
- ↑ Wolfe, Alexander (October 2004). "There's Still Some Life Left in Ada". ACM Queue. Also at http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1040000/1035608/p28-wolfe.pdf