ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the fundamentals, best practices, and examples of digital avionics systems modeling and simulation. In order to realize unprecedented but operationally essential levels of avionics system performance, reliability, supportability, and affordability, commercial industry and the military will draw on advanced technologies, methods, and development techniques in virtually every area of aircraft design, development, and fabrication. The past 45 years of aviation has seen extraordinary innovation in all aspects of complex systems design and manufacturing technology. Digital computing resources have been employed in all functional areas of avionics, including communication, navigation, flight controls, propulsion control, and all areas of military weapon systems. The complexity and performance of modeling and simulation technology is every bit equal to the digital avionics products they are used to develop. For commercial systems and product designers, time to market is a critical product development factor that has significant impact on the economic viability of any given product release.
