Title :
Avionics operational flight program software supportability
Author_Institution :
Wright Res. & Dev. Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA
Abstract :
It is noted that distributed and highly integrated software now in design/development, as well as parallel processing and artificial intelligence concepts, put additional strains on the testability, instrumentation of software, dynamic support environment, and validation capabilities. The work being done under the embedded computer resources support improvement program to meet these challenges by addressing the development of an advanced low-cost software support capability and developing a rapid turnaround capability for software is described. A modular, reconfigurable support environment has been demonstrated for the F16, which incorporates off-the-shelf components where applicable, Ada simulation modules, nonintrusive dynamic debug, and real-time networks. Techniques to accomplish a rapid turnaround of software in response to mission or threat changes are discussed
Keywords :
Ada; aerospace computing; aircraft instrumentation; artificial intelligence; military computing; parallel processing; programming environments; Ada simulation modules; F16; aerospace control; artificial intelligence; avionics; dynamic support environment; embedded computer resources; mission; modular reconfigurable support environment; nonintrusive dynamic debug; off-the-shelf components; operational flight program; parallel processing; rapid turnaround capability; real-time networks; software supportability; testability; threat changes; validation; Aerospace electronics; Artificial intelligence; Capacitive sensors; Computational modeling; Embedded computing; Embedded software; Instruments; Parallel processing; Software design; Software testing;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 1990. Proceedings., IEEE/AIAA/NASA 9th
Conference_Location :
Virginia Beach, VA
DOI :
10.1109/DASC.1990.111296
