An Automatic Technique to Synthesize Avionics Architecture

Abstract

In conventional avionics system design process, changing the avionics system architecture involves a large team of engineers and requires months to years of redesign time. This paper describes the avionics architecture tool (AST) developed by JPL that can automatically synthesize architecture for the avionics-system-on-a-chip. As the synthesis is based on genetic algorithm and driven by requirements that are imposed by the environment, the synthesized architecture can quickly adapt to environmental changes. Furthermore, the AST can also guarantee that the synthesized architecture is viable and workable through the use of viability tree