Airplane Information Management System

The Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) is the "brains" of Boeing 777 aircraft. It uses four ARINC 629 buses to transfer information. There are 2 cabinets on each plane (left and right).

History
The Intel 80x86 processor was the first to be used for the system, in conjunction with a compiler and runtime system for the Ada programming language. Beginning in 1988 and continuing for a number of years, Honeywell Air Transport Systems worked together with consultants from DDC-I in collaboration to retarget and optimize the DDC-I Ada compiler to the AMD 29050 architecture for use in full scale development. The Airplane Information Management System software would become arguably the best-known of any Ada project, civilian or military. Some 550 developers at Honeywell worked on the flight system.

Primary Functions

 * Cockpit displays system
 * Flight management system
 * Thrust management system (Autothrottle)
 * Aircraft condition monitoring system
 * Data communication management (Datalink)
 * Flight deck communication
 * Central maintenance system
 * Flight data acquisition system

Other Functions

 * Flight Data Recorder System
 * Aircraft Conditioning Monitoring System