Airplane Information Management System

The Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) is the "brains"^{[clarification needed]} of Boeing 777 aircraft. It uses four ARINC 629 buses to transfer information. There are 2 cabinets on each plane (left and right).^[1][2][3]

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.^[4][5] The Airplane Information Management System software would become arguably the best-known of any Ada project, civilian or military.^[6] Some 550 developers at Honeywell worked on the flight system.^[5]

Functions

Primary Functions

• Cockpit displays system^[7]
• 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^{[citation needed]}
• Aircraft Conditioning Monitoring System^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA)
• Cockpit display system