AVSI

The Aerospace Research Cooperative

Join AVSI Member Login

  • Home
  • About
    • Research
      • Intellectual Property Rights
      • AVSI Proposal Process
    • Achievements
    • People
  • Projects
    • RF Interference with Radar Altimeters
    • SAVI
    • WAIC
    • Systems Reliability
    • Shape Memory Alloy Specifications
  • News
  • Members
    • Membership Types
    • Join AVSI
  • Contact
Home / Projects / Other Projects / Rapid Prototyping Tools for Flight Deck Display

Rapid Prototyping Tools for Flight Deck Display

This project produced a common development process and associated interface standards to support the aviation industry’s requirements to rapidly prototype flight deck and cockpit display concepts, and to efficiently transition these concepts to avionics systems.   Key process capabilities included:

  • Ability to carry-out rapid prototyping of display graphics and logic
  • Ability to model graphics and logic requirements
  • Ability to validate graphics and logic requirements
  • Ability to evaluate flight deck/cockpit display concepts at workstation and simulators
  • Major reduction in costs and cycle time in software product implementation
  • Use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) graphics and logic software prototyping tools
  • Provide for a supplier “hand off’ standard

These capabilities were generated across a variety of developmental and testing platforms by Boeing, avionics and flight deck display suppliers as well as software development tool venders.   The goal was to develop a common rapid prototyping display development process and common inter-model interfaces.  The development project involved 4 major steps:

  • Process Definition
  • Tool Set Requirements
  • Preparation for Process Demonstration and
  • Process Demonstration using a sample tool set

Logic tools employed to demonstrate the process were not endorsed by the project

This project addressed a huge need within the industry regarding cycle time and cost reduction including:

  • Development of the system concepts
  • Determination of how the system really works
  • Validation of requirements
  • Implementation of the established process.

The project did not directly develop auto-coding and verification techniques, but the developed processes and tools did enable and support the display suppliers in the development of model-to-embedded-verified-software.

The project did not require the invention or design of new hardware or software.   However, it did identify products and processes that were then available, as well as required enhancements. And it integrated the components into a practicable process.

Project Details

AFE 04

Period of Performance:
January 3, 2000 – December 31, 2001

Subcontractor: Boeing, Honeywell

Cost per participant: $68,102

Total project value: $204,306

Current AVSI Projects

  • RF Interference with Radar Altimeters
  • Artificial Intelligence in Aerospace Systems
  • Wireless Avionics
  • New Materials for Aerospace Systems

AVSI
753 H.R. Bright Building
3141 TAMU
710 Ross Street
College Station, TX 77843-3141
979-845-5568
Contact AVSI

The Texas A&M University System

© 2023 AVSI