PAVE PACE: system avionics for the 21st century

Author

Morgan, D. Reed

Author_Institution

US Air Force Wright Aeronaut. Lab., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

23-27 May 1988

Firstpage

146

Abstract

The rationale is presented for the continuation of the advanced architecture development, established by the PAVE PILLAR initiative, under the PAVE PACE program. The goals are to achieve: (a) practical and affordable airborne versions of modular parallel-processing network architectures for a large array of new applications (currently beyond real-time implementation), (b) highly available avionics for use across all avionics, and, (c) dramatically improved techniques to reduce the cost of software development and support. A novel approach to the overall design structure for future avionics is also presented. Continued use of the PAVE PILLAR high-speed data bus and operating system is recommended as the means to integrate and control the data input and output of physically and functionally separate parallel networks

Keywords

aerospace computing; aircraft instrumentation; military computing; operating systems (computers); parallel architectures; parallel processing; real-time systems; PAVE PACE program; PAVE PILLAR high-speed data bus; PAVE PILLAR initiative; advanced architecture development; airborne versions; future avionics; goals; highly available avionics; modular parallel-processing network architectures; operating system; overall design structure; rationale; separate parallel networks; software development cost reduction; system avionics; Aerospace electronics; Application software; Computer aided manufacturing; Costs; Design automation; Government; Hardware; Laboratories; Software tools; Thermal management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1988. NAECON 1988., Proceedings of the IEEE 1988 National

Conference_Location

Dayton, OH

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAECON.1988.195007

Filename

195007