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 Posted: Mar 02, 2004 - 11:57 PM
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Does anyone know what is the relationship between computer engineering and avionics?
I mean what is the role that computer engineering plays in avionics? |
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Posted: Mar 03, 2004 - 12:35 AM
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| Most avionics today are controlled by software written by software engineers, that software runs on hardware designed by hardware engineers. Oversimplified but then I'm not sure where you're heading with this... |
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Posted: Mar 03, 2004 - 04:25 PM
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Good point, Habu Deux.
Two relationships (from personal experience):
1) Actual design of the computers used in the jet - nav, weapons delivery, flight control system (ala Viper), and more. outfits like Motorola, Control Data, IBM, BAE, etc would design and market their black boxes for use in the jets.
This includes the design and specification of the 'backplane' hardware, data bus structure, protocols, co-processors, memory allocation, what type of memory (EEPROM, ROM, RAM, etc), external interfaces for data transfer or discrete signals for activating functions, receiving commands, etc., and which CPU(s) to use, and on and on.
2) Programming the stupid things! However, I never met a true 'software engineer'. They were all geeks who 'coded' the stuff that we real engineers wrote down for how the thing should work (LOL).
In my previous life, we used hardware from the big guys, and only had slight inputs on their designs. Our shop did the programming of the main computers and helped with the design of all the interfaces between it, other avionics and the weapons themselves.
Had enough?
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Posted: Mar 04, 2004 - 03:46 AM
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| Gums, I spent the better part of four years at Lockheed, checking 1553B MUX traffic down to the bit (not BIT) level on avionics test stations - and I'm no software engineer... |
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