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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Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1988. NAECON 1988., Proceedings of the IEEE 1988 National
Date of Conference: 23-27 May 1988