Patent ID: 8386660

Claim:
A method for configuring interfaces of computers belonging to an avionic platform of an aircraft, said platform implementing a plurality of avionic functions, which exchange functional messages, each avionic function being implemented by software modules, hereinafter referred to as functional system occurrences, hosted in computers, said computers communicating by means of signal occurrences transmitted over communications media which connect said computers together, the method comprising: creating, for each software module hosted by a computer of said computers that belong to the avionic platform, signal occurrences for transmitting all parameters of the functional messages emitted by the avionic function implemented by the respective software module, over all communications media, the avionic platform corresponding to all on-board computing and communication devices that execute the avionic functions of the aircraft; grouping said signal occurrences per functional system, parameter, and communication media to create signal occurrence classes; configuring the interfaces of the computers belonging to the avionic platform, based on the obtained signal occurrence classes; assigning a communications port of a computer of said computers to each signal occurrence class; for each software module fs_oc hosted by a computer, determining a list f_l of avionic functions, in the implementation of which the respective software module intervenes, and then determining a list p_l of the parameters comprised in functional messages emitted by the functions of f_l, and, for each parameter p of p_l, determining a list fl_l of links between avionic functions, hereinafter referred to as functional links, conveying at least one functional message containing said parameter p; inferring therefrom a list path_l of paths through the communications media for forwarding said functional messages; and determining a list med_l of the communications media followed through the paths of path_l.