Patent ID: 8743129

Claim:
A display system for a glass cockpit of an aircraft cockpit for providing video to a plurality of viewing screens of an instrument panel of said glass cockpit, said display system being partitioned into a secured avionic area and a non-secured open area, said display system comprising: at least one first port configured to receive first data to be displayed from a secured avionic system of the secured avionic area; at least one second port configured to receive second data to be displayed from a non-secured on-board information system of the non-secured open area; predetermined hardware resources allocated to processing of the second data; and a first processor in the secured avionic area of the display system configured to monitor the hardware resources used by the processing of the second data and to interrupt the processing of the second data when said hardware resources used exceed corresponding allocated amounts, wherein the first data is essential flight control data and the second data is non-essential for flight control.