Patent ID: 6564241
Filing Date: 2003-05-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A system for simulating, in real time, a real aircraft that has an avionic computer with a number of simultaneously running avionic computer processors, said number being at least two, said avionic computer processors each running a respective operational flight software program, said system comprising:plurality of simulator processors equal in number to the number of the avionic computer processors in the avionic computer in the real aircraft, each of said simulator processors having a respective cache memory associated therewith in which a corresponding one of the operational flight software programs for the real aircraft avionic computer is loaded; said simulator processor each having associated therewith respective interpreter software configured to interpret the corresponding operational flight software program so that said simulator processors are each able to run the corresponding operation flight software program from the real aircraft substantially as said corresponding operational flight software program is run in the avionic computer in the real aircraft being simulated; said simulator processors each running corresponding operational flight software programs simultaneously in parallel using the interpreter software; and an instructions processor being operatively associated with the simulator processors, and controlling input/output activities or interrupts for said operational flight software programs running on the simulator processors.