PAVE PACE: system avionics for the 21st century

The rationale is presented for the continuation of the advanced architecture development, established by the PAVE PILLAR initiative, under the PAVE PACE program. The goals are to achieve: (a) practical and affordable airborne versions of modular parallel-processing network architectures for a large array of new applications (currently beyond real-time implementation), (b) highly available avionics for use across all avionics, and, (c) dramatically improved techniques to reduce the cost of software development and support. A novel approach to the overall design structure for future avionics is also presented. Continued use of the PAVE PILLAR high-speed data bus and operating system is recommended as the means to integrate and control the data input and output of physically and functionally separate parallel networks.<
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