777 Maintenance Access Terminal and Side Displays

Author

Mepham, Tom

Author_Institution

Collins- Air Transport Div., Rockwell Int. Corp., Cedar Rapids, IA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

30 Oct-3 Nov 1994

Firstpage

143

Lastpage

150

Abstract

The Maintenance Access Terminal (MAT) and Side Display (SD) are powerful processing resources with high resolution liquid crystal displays, networked to other airplane systems with a fiber optic communication interface. They provide a common resource for night crew and maintenance personnel to access information from other airplane systems, such as initially the On-Board Maintenance System (OMS). The MAT/SD are designed as an open architecture, avionics ruggedized, 486 diskless workstations. They are designed for a single user, with sufficient processing power and memory to run third party application software. The MAT consists of a display/processor unit, which is identical to the Side Display, a cursor control device (trackball) and keyboard for user interface, a 3.5" floppy disk drive, and an optional hard disk drive. Each of these items are line replaceable modules that install into a MAT cabinet. This paper overviews the system development, design, and functionality of the 777 MAT/SD

Keywords

LAN interconnection; aircraft computers; aircraft displays; aircraft maintenance; computer architecture; optical fibre couplers; system buses; user interfaces; 3.5 in; 486 diskless workstations; 777 maintenance access terminal; BITE processor; GUI; On-Board Maintenance System; UNIX; X Windows; architecture; avionics; cursor control device; fiber optic communication interface; floppy disk drive; keyboard; line replaceable modules; liquid crystal displays; maintenance personnel; night crew; open architecture; optional hard disk drive; side displays; third party application software; user interface; Aerospace electronics; Airplanes; Application software; Computer architecture; Keyboards; Liquid crystal displays; Optical fiber communication; Personnel; User interfaces; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 1994. 13th DASC., AIAA/IEEE

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2425-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.1994.369489

Filename

369489