Digital Engineering Enables Innovative Hardware Integration Opportunities in Aerospace
that show the value of and opportunities of pulling the DE thread to enable transformative automation , artificial intelligence , and integration for avionics systems .
To address challenges , the following steps were realized :
• Develop a robust but flexible data format to capture the characteristics of avionics systems and the components .
• Create a repository for managing component data .
• Implement visualization methods to represent the hierarchy of components .
• Develop automated decision aids and Artificial Intelligence tools to assist with composition and integration decisions .
• Develop reporting and documentation formats from the standardized data .
• Deploy a robust prototype for community use and exploration .
3.1 ROBUST AND FLEXIBLE DATA FORMAT
Initial development involved defining a format to capture the characteristics of an avionics computing component . A JavaScript Object Notation ( JSON ) format was chosen because it is easily parsed by computers and is human-readable enough to facilitate understanding and experimentation during the early stages of development . The goal was to capture details down to the pin-out level so that tools could analyze these definitions and detect incompatibilities during integration . An example of the format for a module is shown in Figure 3-1 : Component library for discovery and composition .
Figure 3-1 : Component library for discovery and composition .
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