Indonesian Space Sciences & Technology School

Prototyping Avionics

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Undergraduate

Instructors:

Dr. Alvar Saenz-Otero

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The F-15E Strike Eagle: An array of avionics and electronics systems gives it the capability to fight at low altitude, day or night, and in all weather. (Image courtesy of Armchair Aviator on Flickr.)

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In the past building prototypes of electronic components for new projects/products was limited to using protoboards and wirewrap. Manufacturing a printed-circuit-board was limited to final production, where mistakes in the implementation meant physically cutting traces on the board and adding wire jumpers - the final products would have these fixes on them! Today that is no longer the case, while you will still cut traces and use jumpers when debugging a board, manufacturing a new final version without the errors is a simple and relatively inexpensive task. For that matter, manufacturing a prototype printed circuit board which you know is likely to have errors but which will get the design substantially closer to the final product than a protoboard setup is not only possible, but desirable. In this class, you'll learn to design, build, and debug printed-circuit-boards.

Avionics are the electronic systems used on aircraft, artificial satellites and spacecraft. Avionic systems include communications, navigation, the display and management of multiple systems and the hundreds of systems that are fitted to aircraft to meet individual roles. These can be as simple as a searchlight for a police helicopter or as complicated as the tactical system for an airborne early warning platform.

• 1 History
  • 1.1 Modern Avionics
• 2 Aircraft avionics
  • 2.1 Communications
  • 2.2 Navigation
  • 2.3 Monitoring
  • 2.4 Aircraft flight control systems
  • 2.5 Collision-avoidance systems
  • 2.6 BlackBoxes
  • 2.7 Weather systems
  • 2.8 Aircraft management systems
• 3 Mission or tactical avionics
  • 3.1 Military communications
  • 3.2 Radar
  • 3.3 Sonar
  • 3.4 Electro-Optics
  • 3.5 ESM/DAS
  • 3.6 Aircraft networks
  • 3.7 Disaster relief and air ambulance
• 4 See also
• 5 Notes
• 6 References
• 7 External links

References

• Avionics: Development and Implementation by Cary R. Spitzer (Hardcover - Dec 15, 2006)
• Principles of Avionics, 4th Edition by Albert Helfrick, Len Buckwalter, and Avionics Communications Inc. (Paperback - Jul 1, 2007)
• Avionics Training: Systems, Installation, and Troubleshooting by Len Buckwalter (Paperback - Jun 30, 2005)

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Indonesia University of Education

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