Simulation and test system for at least one item of equipment on an AFDX network
AssigneeAirbus France
InventorsJean-Marie Calluaud, Emmanuel Cloury
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Abstract
The invention relates to a system for simulating at least one item of equipment missing on an AFDX network and for testing such a network comprising at least one real item of equipment, which uses non-specific computer means including: a simulation layer (21) controlling at least one Ethernet controller (22), at least one commercially available Ethernet switch (42) to switch data.
Claims8
A system for simulating at least one item of equipment missing on an Avionics Full Duplex Switched Ethernet (AFDX) network, said system comprising:
- at least one Ethernet controller,
- a simulation layer configured to control said at least one Ethernet controller, and
- at least one Ethernet switch connected to said at least one Ethernet controller and configured to route a virtual link to an output port that is connected to an AFDX switch for said at least one item of equipment.
A system, for simulating at least one item of equipment missing on an Avionics Full Duplex Switched Ethernet (AFDX) network, said system comprising:
- at least one Ethernet controller,
- a simulation layer configured to control said at least one Ethernet controller, and
- at least one commercially available Ethernet switch,
- wherein the Ethernet switch is configured to segregate different sub-networks and to route outgoing Ethernet frames to ports connected to the AFDX network and incoming Ethernet frames to a processing device.
An aircraft simulator using a simulation system for simulating at least one item of equipment missing on an Avionics Full Duplex Switched Ethernet (AFDX) network, said system comprising at least one commercially available Ethernet controller, a simulation layer configured to control said at least one Ethernet controller, and at least one Ethernet switch, wherein said aircraft simulator includes:
- a simulation workshop with the function of hosting avionics models or functions and communicating with other software sets through a data flow,
- a data zone in which contents of avionics information in AFDX messages are available,
- an input/output engine awakened by a timer and including formatting, deformatting and frame sequencing functions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.