Title :
Using behavioral mixed-signal simulation to implement COTS rapid technology insertion in avionics systems
Author :
Siege, Craig ; Majernik, David ; Davis, Donald ; Foster, Chris
Author_Institution :
Analogy Inc., Beaverton, OR, USA
Abstract :
The Department of Defense (DoD) has specific goals to reduce acquisition cost, shorten development time and allow rapid technology insertion into avionics systems. The DoD funded Boeing to perform a study on methods to accomplish these goals. The Diagnostics for Acquisition (DFA) study was broken into three efforts: simulation, demonstration, and studies. In the simulation effort, creation of functional, or behavioral, models of avionics subsystem components based on functional specifications will facilitate the use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) equipment and procedures to accomplish the DoD goals. The development of the avionics subsystem components are based on performance-based build-to specifications. For the purposes of this DFA study, the test engineers were not allowed to examine supplemental documentation or schematics from which to develop test programs
Keywords :
automatic testing; circuit simulation; hardware description languages; military avionics; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; Boeing; COTS; COTS rapid technology; Commercial-Off-The-Shelf equipment; DFA; Department of Defense; DoD; avionics systems; behavioral mixed-signal simulation; demonstration; development time; diagnostics for acquisition; functional specification; performance-based build-to specifications; simulation; Aerospace electronics; Analytical models; Costs; Documentation; Doped fiber amplifiers; Hardware; Switches; Testing; US Department of Defense; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
AUTOTESTCON '99. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference, 1999. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Antonio, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5432-X
DOI :
10.1109/AUTEST.1999.800452
