Cockpit display system

A cockpit display systems is an avionics software system that provides the visible portion of the human–machine interface of modern aircraft's glass cockpit.

History

Prior to the 1970s, cockpits did not typically use any electronic instruments or displays. Improvements in computer technology, the need for enhancement of situational awareness in more complex environments, and the rapid growth of commercial air transportation, together with continued military competitiveness, led to increased levels of integration in the cockpit.
The average transport aircraft in the mid-1970s had more than one hundred cockpit instruments and controls, and the primary flight instruments were already crowded with indicators, crossbars, and symbols, and the growing number of cockpit elements were competing for cockpit space and pilot attention.

Architecture

s routinely include high-resolution multi-color displays that present information relating to the various aircraft systems in an integrated way. Integrated Modular Avionics architecture allows for the integration of the cockpit instruments and displays at the hardware and software level to be maximized.
Image:Cockpit display system IMA.png|500px|IMA & CDS integration
CDS software typically uses API code to integrate with the platform. This software may be written manually or with the help of COTS tools such as VAPS, VAPS XT from , GL Studio, or SCADE Display.
Standards such as ARINC 661 specify the integration of the CDS at the software level with the aircraft system applications.