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

  • Cockpit displays system[7]
  • Flight management system
  • Thrust management system (Autothrottle)
  • Aircraft condition monitoring system
  • Data communication management (Datalink)
  • Flight deck communication
  • Central maintenance system
  • Flight data acquisition system

Other Functions

See also

References

  1. ↑ "777 Family: Flight Deck and Airplane Systems". Boeing. Retrieved 2013-10-05.
  2. ↑ Witwer, Bob (April 1996). "System Integration of the 777 Airplane Information Management System" (PDF). Honeywell. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-07. Retrieved 2013-10-05.
  3. ↑ Morgan, Michael J. (2001). "The Avionics Handbook: Boeing B-777" (PDF). Honeywell. Retrieved 2013-10-05.
  4. ↑ Rehmer, Karl (2009). "The HADS Team". In Stellman, Andrew; Greene, Jennifer (eds.). Beautiful Teams: Inspiring and Cautionary Tales from Veteran Team Leaders. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly. pp. 299–312.
  5. 1 2 "Boeing Flies on 99% Ada". Ada Information Clearinghouse. Archived from the original on November 5, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
  6. ↑ Wolfe, Alexander (October 2004). "There's Still Some Life Left in Ada". ACM Queue. Vol. 2, no. 7. pp. 28–31. doi:10.1145/1035594.1035608.
  7. ↑ Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) | Honeywell Aerospace
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