Airplane Information Management System
The Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) is the "brains"{{clarify|date=February 2023}} of Boeing 777 aircraft. It uses four ARINC 629 buses to transfer information. There are 2 cabinets on each plane (left and right).{{cite web
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|title=System Integration of the 777 Airplane Information Management System
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History
The Intel 80x86 processor was the first to be used for the system, in conjunction with a compiler and runtime system for the Ada programming language.
Beginning in 1988 and continuing for a number of years, Honeywell Air Transport Systems worked together with consultants from DDC-I in collaboration to retarget and optimize the DDC-I Ada compiler to the AMD 29050 architecture for use in full scale development.{{cite book | chapter=The HADS Team | first=Karl | last=Rehmer
| year= 2009 | title=Beautiful Teams: Inspiring and Cautionary Tales from Veteran Team Leaders | editor-first=Andrew | editor-last=Stellman | editor2-first= Jennifer | editor2-last=Greene | publisher=O'Reilly | location=Sebastopol, California | pages=299–312}} The Airplane Information Management System software would become arguably the best-known of any Ada project, civilian or military.{{cite news|url=http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1035608 |title=There's Still Some Life Left in Ada |first=Alexander |last=Wolfe |magazine=ACM Queue |date=October 2004 |issue=7|volume=2|pages=28–31 |doi-access=free|doi=10.1145/1035594.1035608}} Some 550 developers at Honeywell worked on the flight system.{{cite news|url=http://archive.adaic.com/projects/atwork/boeing.html |title=Boeing Flies on 99% Ada |publisher=Ada Information Clearinghouse |accessdate=October 24, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151105021316/http://archive.adaic.com/projects/atwork/boeing.html |archivedate=November 5, 2015 }}
Functions
=Primary Functions=
- Cockpit displays system[https://aerospace.honeywell.com/en/products/cockpit-systems/airplane-information-management-system Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) | Honeywell Aerospace]
- Flight management system
- Thrust management system (Autothrottle)
- Aircraft condition monitoring system
- Data communication management (Datalink)
- Flight deck communication
- Central maintenance system
- Flight data acquisition system
=Other Functions=
- Flight Data Recorder System{{fact|date=November 2017}}
- Aircraft Conditioning Monitoring System{{fact|date=November 2017}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080220023138/http://www.ddci.com/display_success_story-filename-programs_boeing777.php Boeing 777 Airplane Information Management System]