Architecture Exploration for High-Integrated and Low-Cost Avionic Systems

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Modern avionics systems are software-intensive systems composed of a network of heterogeneous distributed embedded processors. These safety-critical systems must exhibit a series of quality attributes, among the most important being the system safety, reliability and fault-tolerance. Organizations developing modern avionic systems face numerous challenges. Among them is the need to choose and exploit the right infrastructure technologies to architect product lines addressing the requirements of multiple customers. Also, economic concerns are constantly pushing for changes. Space, weight and power (SWaP) considerations are gaining importance in the current state of the aviation industry. Since the early 2000's, a new architecture named IMA (Integrated Modular Avionics) has emerged that promises to significantly increase safety-critical aspects while reducing the SWaP footprint of new avionics systems by combining several applications within a single computer hardware unit.