Unit 1

Introduction to avionics – Systems design parameters and specifications – Traceability – Ilities – Avionics architecture – LRU/LRM – Backplane standards – Data bus – topologies – word formats – MIL-STD 1553B – ARINC 429 – ARINC 629 – CSDB – FCAD.

Unit 2

Fault diagnosis methodologies – FMEA – FTA – Fault tolerance and recovery – NOTAM – Practical exercises.

Unit 3

1. Albert Helfrick, “Principles of Avionics, Airline Avionics”, Fourth edition, 2007
2. Keith W. Bose, “Aviation Electronics”, Howard W. Sams& Company Inc., 1981.

1. Ian Moir, Allan Seabridge, “Aircraft Systems: Mechanical, electrical, and avionics subsystems integration”, Professional Engineering Publishing Limited, London and Bury St Edmunds, UK, 2001.
2. Cary R. Spitzer, “The Avionics Handbook”, CRC Press, 2001 Qiping Chu et al., Advances In Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Control, Springer, 2013.