An Ada-based, portable design workstation for computer-generated cockpit displays

Author

Turner, Timothy L. ; Barker, M. Chadwick ; Suresh, Ramasubramani An ; Ananstoos, J.V. ; Jewell, Donna M. ; Montoya, R. Jorge ; Williams, Derryl A.

Author_Institution

Research Triangle Inst., Research Triangle Park, NC, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

15-18 Oct 1990

Firstpage

582

Lastpage

588

Abstract

The Airborne Graphics Software Support System (AGSSS), an Ada/PHIGS-based design workstation for the rapid prototyping and development of cockpit displays and their enabling software for airborne display systems, is described. The AGSSS supports the interactive and artistic creation of cockpit display formats, interactive specification of the dynamics of the display, symbology, and the incremental testing of the emerging display. AGSSS uses the resultant object definitions (in PHIGS) and display actions specifications (in Ada) to automatically generate properly partitioned display system code (in Ada and Ada/PHIGS) for a target display system

Keywords

Ada; aerospace computing; aircraft instrumentation; computer graphic equipment; display instrumentation; engineering workstations; graphical user interfaces; interactive programming; software prototyping; visual programming; Ada/PHIGS; Airborne Graphics Software Support System; airborne display; computer-generated cockpit displays; dynamics; incremental testing; interactive specification; object definitions; portable design workstation; rapid prototyping; symbology; target display; Application software; Computer displays; Computer graphics; Hardware; Portable computers; Programming; Software prototyping; Software systems; Testing; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 1990. Proceedings., IEEE/AIAA/NASA 9th

Conference_Location

Virginia Beach, VA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.1990.111353

Filename

111353