Avionics operational flight program software supportability

It is noted that distributed and highly integrated software now in design/development, as well as parallel processing and artificial intelligence concepts, put additional strains on the testability, instrumentation of software, dynamic support environment, and validation capabilities. The work being done under the embedded computer resources support improvement program to meet these challenges by addressing the development of an advanced low-cost software support capability and developing a rapid turnaround capability for software is described. A modular, reconfigurable support environment has been demonstrated for the F16, which incorporates off-the-shelf components where applicable, Ada simulation modules, nonintrusive dynamic debug, and real-time networks. Techniques to accomplish a rapid turnaround of software in response to mission or threat changes are discussed.<
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