Development of Test Environment Platform for IMA using COTS components

Avionics software is playing a bigger role in future aircraft. The dilemma is to have the developer grasp the idea of modern avionics based on IMA (integrate Modular Avionics) to use software component re-use on shared resources. in this paper, we propose a test environment for IMA software development that resembles the nature of IMA using a combination of COTS (Commercial of the shelf) hardware and software. We develop AFDX switch with Linux-based router that can build custom ethernet packet that resembles AFDX. We also consider LXC, a Linux container, handled with custom algorithm scheme to control CPU and memory allocation for each container to resemble ARINC 653 standard. The test environment is built as similar as IMA as whole system, as this is not an ideal IMA there is drawback in data communication. That the average jitter for data communication still does not meet ARINC 664 requirement.