Military Embedded Systems:
Understanding ARINC 661 and its benefits in a certified environment

Oct 11, 2010

The ARINC 661 avionics display standard has been in existence and evolving for close to a decade – with its most recent iteration published earlier this year. In this article, Yannick  Lefebvre examines the ARINC 661 architecture, its Cockpit Display System (CDS) and User Application (UA) components, the standard’s widget library – and how they all relate to DO-178B certification.