The Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) is the integrated avionics system of Boeing 777 aircraft, produced by Honeywell Aerospace.
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. The Airplane Information Management System software would become arguably the best-known of any Ada project, civilian or military. Some 550 developers at Honeywell worked on the flight system.
The original system, AIMS-1, was first introduced with the introduction of the Boeing 777 in 1995. An updated version, AIMS-2, was introduced in 2003.
System
Primary Functions
Cockpit Displays (primary flight display, multifunction display, EICAS)Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) | Honeywell Aerospace Flight management system Thrust management system (Autothrottle) Aircraft condition monitoring system In-flight datalink (ACARS/CPDLC) Flight deck communication Central maintenance system Flight data acquisition system
Other Functions Flight Data Recorder System Aircraft Conditioning Monitoring System
Back-End
Four ARINC 629 buses for information transfer Two primary avionics cabinets, located under the cockpit in the avionics bay
See also Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) Cockpit display system
References
External links Boeing 777 Airplane Information Management System