AMMS
Aircraft and Mission Management System
The AMMS is a powerful computing system designed to provide processing features to rotary wing aircraft, including Navigation & Flight Management, Cockpit Display Management, and Aircraft Plants Management.
The System is composed of:
- Two AMMCs Units (the Computer Core)
- Two Data Transfer Units
- A Control Panel
The AMMS provides the capabilities to acquire, process, and manage information and aircraft plant data from EFIS/EICAS, relevant CNI equipment, and AFCS, in a reliable, high performance environment. It is based upon a core consisting of two identical computers (AMMC, Aircraft and Mission Management Computers), synchronised and concurrently performing the same operations in a master/hotstandby architecture, which allows, in case of failure of the Master, a totally automatic reconfiguration for all system functionalities, therefore resulting in a high mission availability.
- Key Features
- Technical Specifications
- Redundant LRI configuration
- PowerPC G4 MCS-E 500Mhz processor
- Easy addition of additional processor module and I/O
- I/O configuration for different aircraft
- COTS RTOS based on I-178B by Green Hills
- Dedicated equipment software and ADA
development environment for application - Digital maps: symbol generation & vectorial layers
- Synthetic voice generator
- Redundant MIL-STD 1553B I/F operates as BC/BM/RT
- High communication throughput
- Ethernet 10/100 baseT
- MIL-STD-1553b
- ARINC 429
- ARINC 739
- RS485 HDLC
- AFDX Copper/Optical I/F compliant with ARINC664
- High data storage capability (up to 8GB)
- Civil specification compliance
- RTCA/DO-160D
- RTCA/DO-254
- RTCA/DO178B
- AMMC is a 1 ATR size housing, with integrated power supply and up to 13 MCS standard boards.
- Processor G4 MCS-E Power PC 500 MHz, 256MB RAM, 96MB Flash, 2MB cache, with a 2MB NOVRAM.
- Synthetic Voice Generator
- Digital Map Generator: G4 MCS-E with graphic mezzanine for map generation functionality
Interfaces
- 2 MIL-STD-1553 BUS I/F BC/BM/RT
- 20 TX ARINC 429 and 34 RX ARINC 429 channels
- 4 TX and 4 RX ARINC 429 Non-Time-Framed channels
- 250 Discrete Input Signals
- 17 Discrete Output Signals
- 6 AC Analogue High Level
- 54 DC Analogue Input
- 17 Accelerometers sensors
- Magnetic Pick-Up
- STANAG 3350 RGB Video output
- Synthetic Voice Generator
Technical Features (AMMC)
- Size: 1 ATR Short
- Weight: 15.2Kg (bi-processor)
- Power requirements: 115VAC @ 400Hz
- Power consumption: 180W
- Cooling: Forced air cooling (ARINC 600)
- MTBF: 2500 operating hours.