Digital Avionics Handbook
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Avionics provide crews and passengers with an array of capabilities. Cockpit crews can operate with fewer pilots, greater efficiency, and immediate critical information. Passengers can enjoy the ultimate in inflight entertainment: live television and audio broadcasts and access to the Internet and e-mail.
Since avionics are the among most expensive items on an aircraft, designers are continually challenged to produce cost-effective, highly reliable hardware. Whether you are a working engineer or a manager, you need a source you can refer to for the latest information on any aspect of avionics.
The Avionics Handbook presents complete coverage of the field, from the building blocks of a typical system through the process used in designing, building, and testing modern military and civil aircraft avionics systems. It includes examples from emerging technologies, such as pilot-aircraft speech interaction and synthetic vision. With contributions from top practitioners in the field, this volume presents a complete overview of avionics to give you the knowledge you need to approach any problem.
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SECTION I - ELEMENTS
Introduction, Daniel A. Martinec
AS 15531/MIL-STD-1553B Digital Time Division Command/Response Multiplex Data Bus, Chris deLong
ARINC 429, Daniel A. Martinec
Commercial Standard Digital Bus, Lee H. Harrison
Head-Up Displays, Robert B. Wood and Peter J. Howells
Head-Mounted Displays, James E. Melzer
Display Devices: RSD™ (Retinal Scanning Display), Thomas M. Lippert
Night Vision Goggles, Dennis L. Schmickley
Speech Interaction, Douglas W. Beeks
Human Factors Engineering and Flight Deck Design, Kathy H. Abbott
Batteries, David G. Vutetakis
SECTION II - FUNCTIONS
Introduction, Peter Potocki de Montalk
Boeing B-777: Fly-by-Wire Flight Controls, Gregg F. Bartley
Electrical Flight Controls, from Airbus A320/330/340 to Future Military Transport Aircraft, Dominique Briere, Christian Favre, and Pascal Traverse
Navigation Systems, Myron Kayton
Navigation and Tracking, James L. Farrell
Flight Management Systems, Randy Walter
Synthetic Vision, Russell V. Parrish, Daniel G. Baize, Michael S. Lewis
Enhanced Situation Awareness, Barry C. Breen
Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System II, Steve Henely
SECTION III - REQUIREMENTS, DESIGN
ANALYSIS, VALIDATION, AND CERTIFICATION
Introduction, Ellis F. Hitt
Setting Requirements, Cary R. Spitzer
Digital Avionics Modeling and Simulation, Jack Strauss, Terry Venema, Grant Stumpf, and John Satta
Formal Methods, Sally C. Johnson and Ricky W. Butler
Electronic Hardware Reliability, Arun Ramakrishnan, Toby Syrus, and Michael Pecht
Certification of Civil Avionics, Frank McCormick
Processes for Engineering a System, James N. Martin
Electromagnetic Environment, Richard Hess
SECTION IV - SOFTWARE
Introduction, Robert P. Lyons, Jr.
Ada, J.G.P. Barnes
RTCA DO-178B/EUROCAE ED-12B, Thomas K. Ferrell and Uma D. Ferrell
SECTION V - IMPLEMENTATION
Introduction, Cary R. Spitzer
Fault-Tolerant Avionics, Ellis F. Hitt and Dennis Mulcare
Boeing B-777, Michael J. Morgan
New Avionics Systems - Airbus A330/A340, J.P. Potocki de Montalk
McDonnell Douglas MD-11 Avionics System, Gordon R.A. Sandell
Lockheed F-22 Raptor, Ronald W. Brower
Advanced Distributed Architectures, Jim Moore
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