Friday, December 28, 2012

IMA A380 Glossary

Reading through the documents from Airbus can be difficult if you do not know the short forms and abbreviations used. My personal experience require me to pause and search for the meaning of the abbreviations, as such I and collecting the data and put it in this blog.

ADCN - Analogue/Digital Converter
ADDA - Analogue/ Digital Digital Analogue
AFDX - Aircraft Full Duplex
AIMS - Aircraft Information and Management System
API - Application programming interface
ARINC 664 is the standard for deterministic ethernet network used in avionics databus for A380 and B787.
COTS - Commercial Off the Shelf.
CPIOM - Core Processor and Input/ Output Module
GWM - Gate Way Module
IMA - integrated modular avionics
Incremental qualification - each system manufacturer has to integrate his own functions without concern with the others. ( Refer aslo partitioning)
LRU - Line Replaceable Unit
PDM - Product Data Management
PSM - power supply unit
RDC - Remote Data Concentrator
VL - Vertical Link

I  an putting the relevant reference that I manage to pick into this blog to assist those sitting for EASA category B1.1 examination.

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