Airplane Information Management System
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The Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) is the integrated avionics system of Boeing 777 aircraft, produced by Honeywell Aerospace. [1][2][3][4]
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.[5][6] The Airplane Information Management System software would become arguably the best-known of any Ada project, civilian or military.[7] Some 550 developers at Honeywell worked on the flight system.[6]
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[7].
System
Primary Functions
Other Functions
- Flight Data Recorder System[citation needed]
- Aircraft Conditioning Monitoring System[citation needed]
Back-End
- Four ARINC 629 buses for information transfer
- Two primary avionics cabinets, located under the cockpit in the avionics bay