The Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) is the "brains" of Boeing 777 aircraft. It uses four

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buses to transfer information. There are 2 cabinets on each plane (left and right).

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

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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. Also at http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1040000/1035608/p28-wolfe.pdf Some 550 developers at Honeywell worked on the flight system.

Functions

Primary Functions

* Cockpit displays systemAirplane Information Management System (AIMS) , Honeywell Aerospace
/ref> * 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 * Aircraft Conditioning Monitoring System

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