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Avionics Systems and Architecture

This document discusses avionics architectures and the transition from federated architectures to integrated modular avionics (IMA). Federated architectures assign each function to a separate computer, leading to increased costs and weight issues. IMA integrates multiple functions on shared computing resources through partitioning to reduce costs and weight. ARINC 653 and 664 standards specify how to partition and communicate applications on shared IMA modules. Avionics full-duplex switched Ethernet (AFDX) provides deterministic network communication. Core processing I/O modules (CPIOMs) host independent avionics applications with functions like pneumatics, controls, data link, and more.

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Avionics Systems and Architecture

This document discusses avionics architectures and the transition from federated architectures to integrated modular avionics (IMA). Federated architectures assign each function to a separate computer, leading to increased costs and weight issues. IMA integrates multiple functions on shared computing resources through partitioning to reduce costs and weight. ARINC 653 and 664 standards specify how to partition and communicate applications on shared IMA modules. Avionics full-duplex switched Ethernet (AFDX) provides deterministic network communication. Core processing I/O modules (CPIOMs) host independent avionics applications with functions like pneumatics, controls, data link, and more.

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Avionics Architecture

Avionics System Growth


Avionic systems represent a growing part of aircraft
costs: 35 to 40% in civil aircraft, and more than 50% in
military aircraft.
Need avionic architectures, composed of digital
processing modules and communication buses,
important requirements: safety, robustness to
equipment failures, determinism, and real-time.

Federated Architecture
One function = One Computer

Problems with FA
The amount of digital information exchanged by LRUs
has grown beyond the capability of ARINC 429 to carry
it.
the weight and volume of the dedicated subsystems hit
the envelope restrictions of the aircraft.
the huge number of different resources significantly
increased the maintenance costs for airlines in terms of
worldwide computer spares provisioning and handling.

Integrated Modular Avionics


two complementary principles.
The first principle is to integrate multiple software functions with
possibly different criticality levels on single avionic computing
resources in order to keep the weight, volume and cost of the
avionic architecture within reasonable limits.
strict and robust partitioning, i.e. a set of principles implemented
by hardware and software means (such as middleware) which
prevent interference between functions, exactly as if each
function runs on its own virtual resources with guaranteed
performances whatever the behaviour of other functions.

ARINC 653
ARINC 653 specifies the management of avionic
applications on common processing modules.
According to ARINC 653 principles, functions from
different applications resident in a processing module
are partitioned with respect to space (resources
partitioning) and time (temporal partitioning).

ARINC 664
ARINC 664 describes the management of
communication resources (i.e., the communication
network). It has been implemented in the Avionics Full
Duplex Ethernet (AFDX) architecture.

Avionics Full-Duplex Switched


Ethernet (AFDX)
AFDX is a aircraft data network (ADN) based upon IEEE
802.3 Ethernet
AFDX takes existing Ethernet physical layer technology
and, using switched Ethernet in full-duplex mode as a
basis, adds deterministic packet delivery, and highintegrity and high-availability mechanisms.
A given LRU may now communicate with many other
LRUs over one set of AFDX wires as opposed to one
ARINC 429 bus pair for each set of one-way data words
and each set of recipient LRUs

CPIOMs
LRU functions are done by avionics "applications".
These independent applications are hosted in shared
IMA modules, called Core Processing Input/Output
Modules(CPIOMs)
seven CPIOMs
additional IMA modules called Input/Output Modules
(IOMs).
CPIOMs and IOMs are Line Replaceable Modules (LRMs).

CPIOMs
CPIOM-A: Pneumatic and optional air conditioning
applications,
CPIOM-B: Air conditioning applications,
CPIOM-C: Cockpit and flight controls applications,
CPIOM-D: Data link applications,
CPIOM-E: Energy applications,
CPIOM-F: Fuel applications,
CPIOM-G: Landing gear applications

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