56 results about "Interface control document" patented technology

A device for modeling an integrated enterprise includes a first tool for constructing a model of the integrated enterprise and a second tool which validates compliance of documents constructed by the first tool with a set of standards. The documents which may be constructed by the first tool include an analysis interface control document (“ICD”) and a design ICD document. The second tool may then be used to selectively compare either the analysis ICD or the design ICD with selected ICD standards and generate an analysis ICD document standards exception report and a design ICD document standards exception report, respectively, which lists each variation of the analysis and design ICD documents from the selected ICD standards. The analysis and/or design ICD standards exception reports may subsequently be used as guides to correct errors in the analysis and/or design ICD documents causing the exceptions.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a software core controller for facilitating communication between a UAV control system, a UAV, and other peripheral devices used to control or to determine the status of the UAV. Different UAVs, control systems, and peripheral devices may require that data be transmitted and received according to their own particular specifications, such as a particular data rate and a particular format. The software core controller may be configurable to interface with these devices using the devices' interfaces. The interfaces may be specified by the devices' interface control documents (ICDs). The ICDs may be used to configure the software core controller upon initialization. The software core controller may asynchronously receive and provide data at the data rate specified in the various ICDs. The software core controller may support a plurality of different physical interfaces in order to communicate with different control systems, UAVs, and peripheral devices.

The invention provides an embedded software testing auxiliary system, and aims at providing a software testing auxiliary system which can improve the efficiency of building a testing environment, lower the operation difficulty and improve the usability. According to the technical scheme, an upper computer constructs a testing crosslinking environment of tested equipment and testing equipment, describes bus attributes, an interface control document ICD, testing case preconditions and testing steps, forms control law data according to the preconditions and the testing steps to dispatch testing data, sends, judges and receives the data, and conducts reverse analysis on the received data according to an ICD format; a lower computer cooperates with the upper computer to send the data through adetailed bus, then the data is received, testing cases and design constructed by data simulation and receiving-sending procedure control are automatically executed, and simulation of embedded softwareperipheral equipment and monitoring and detecting of the interaction process of peripheral equipment data are achieved. According to the embedded software testing auxiliary system, the testing casesof controlling a construction testing scene are executed based on the data receiving-sending procedure, and the time for developing a simulation system is shortened.

The invention provides a graphical intelligent transformer substation pattern design method based on computer-aided design (CAD), which is characterized in that two functional modules including a graphical edit module and a model edit module are arranged in the CAD; the graphical edit module is used for drawing a conventional drawing and expanding attribute definition functions; the model edit module is used for finally generating a model file and supporting the high-order functions of importing, exporting, editing and verifying files and the like; and the graphical edit module and the model edit module carry out sharing operation on model information by accessing an extensive makeup language (XML) database interface. In the graphical intelligent transformer substation pattern design method based on the CAD provided by the invention, by developing graphical model design software based on the CAD, the design and the system of the intelligent transformer substation are integrated, thus not only realizing to carry out first and second wiring diagrams of the conventional transformer substation in the design, but also finishing the complete data model configuration of the whole substation and data stream connection of the transformer substation according to the interface control document (ICD) model files provided by equipment manufacturers and the configuration principle of the first and second equipment of the transformer substation.

The invention discloses a universal avionics bus test analysis method and a universal avionics bus test analysis device. An interface control document (ICD) management module stores an edited ICD file into a database; an equipment mapping module obtains a mapping relationship between a receiving medium and the ICD file, and stores the mapping relationship in the database; and a data acquisition and analysis module dynamically generates a data block according to the mapping relationship, and finishes management over the data block. By the method and the device, ICDs of various buses can be edited, so that the universality of ICD edition and the reusability of codes are ensured; and the ICD file can be flexibly mapped with the bus data receiving medium, so that the flexibility of software and hardware design is improved.

A system and method for emulating or monitoring the communications behavior of any system component connected to a data bus. These functions are accomplished through the implementation of software component emulators (SCE) that encode and decode message data for any system component automatically. The present invention includes a means for development of an interface specification based on information contained in an Interface Control Document (ICD), and enables the user to create the ICD file without having to worry about formatting considerations, and view and define message data in a meaningful, human-readable format. The information in the ICD is automatically reduced to an application that combines the user-friendly, time-efficient aspects of a traditional SCE with the flexibility and universality of a bus monitor.

A system and method for emulating or monitoring the communications behavior of any system component connected to a data bus. These functions are accomplished through the implementation of software component emulators (SCE) that encode and decode message data for any system component automatically. The present invention includes a means for development of an interface specification based on information contained in an Interface Control Document (ICD), and enables the user to create the ICD file without having to worry about formatting considerations, and view and define message data in a meaningful, human-readable format. The information in the ICD is automatically reduced to an application that combines the user-friendly, time-efficient aspects of a traditional SCE with the flexibility and universality of a bus monitor.

Systems and methods for automatically generating test procedures for a software application. In an example method a user creates a test case model based on requirements associated with the software application under test. The user then generates an interface control document. The interface control document includes associations of information between the requirements and the test case model. Next, a processing device automatically generates test procedures for the software application under test based on the interface control document, the requirements and the test case model. The processor automatically creates a local copy of the test case model based on the interface control document.

The invention provides an integrated method of an SCD (System Configuration Document) of a transformer station. The integrated method comprises the steps of inputting an ICD (Interface Control Document), wherein the ICD comprises a header, a communication, a substation, an IED (Intelligent Electronic Device) and a data type template; decoupling a station level according to the ICD, and obtaining a station level ICD; decoupling a process level according to the ICD, and obtaining a process level ICD; inputting the station level ICD, configuring a station level communication parameter and a record control block, and obtaining a station level SCD; and inputting the process level ICD, configuring a GSE (Generis Substation State Event) of the process level, an AMV (Sampled Measured Value), a GOOSE (General Object Oriented Substation Event) and SV (Sample Value) control blocks and inputs, and obtaining a process level SCD. The invention also provides an integrated device of the SCD of the transformer station. According to the integrated device provided by the invention, the integrated efficiency of the SCD can be increased.

The invention provides an integration design method of an intelligent substation based on a three-dimensional design platform and professional software, wherein two function modules, namely an equipment arrangement module and an equipment coding module are arranged in the three-dimensional design platform MicroStation; the equipment arrangement module is used for functions of equipment arrangement and attribute definition; the equipment coding module is used for equipment coding; codes as a part of equipment properties can be bound with equipment information, so that the position information can be extracted from the codes for the calculation of cable length. With the adoption of the integration design method of the intelligent substation based on the three-dimensional design platform and the professional software, through the integration use of Visual SCD (Security Coding Device) intelligent substation system integration design software and BRCM (Broadcom) cable laying software in the MicroStation platform, the intelligent substation construction drawing design and the system integration work are fused; and in such a way, besides the completion of a primary wiring diagram and a secondary wiring diagram of the conventional substation, the configuration of a complete data model of the whole station can be completed in the course of designing according to an ICD (Interface Control Document) model document provided by each equipment manufacturer and the configuration principles of primary equipment and secondary equipment of the substation.

The invention relates to a configuration method for a database of a communication device in a digital substation. The configuration method comprises the following steps: forming an independent middle text, namely, a rule file, according to an IEC61850 standard and a mapping rule for the database of the communication device; automatically generating data of a measuring point according to an engineering requirement and inputting the data of the measuring point into the database of the communication device, for an imported ICD (Interface Control Document) of the device during the configuration process of the communication device; and configuring through configuration software. According to the configuration method, the middle text is supplied to the database of the communication device and the database of the communication device is statically generated according to the corresponding rule in the middle text after the configuration software is imported into the ICD of an IEC61850 device, wherein the rule in the middle text comprises three parts: a basic classifying rule, a prior rule and a shielding rule. According to the configuration method, the database for the measuring point can be flexibly and automatically generated for the imported ICD of the device according to the engineering requirement, so that the process of manually selecting the point by an engineering configuring person is omitted, the possibility of configuration fault is eliminated and the efficiency of engineering configuration is increased.

The invention provides a dynamic ICD (Interface Control Document) configured bus simulator system, and aims at providing a bus simulator system which has better extensibility and reusability and high universality. The dynamic ICD configured bus simulator system is realized by the following technical scheme: a display control system and a bus communication system are respectively of independent software for carrying out data communication through DDS (Data Distribution Service) communication middleware; the display control system is used for dynamically generating interface controls through loading interface configuration files, one group of ICD bound controls are automatically traversed, numerical values in the controls are read; automatic packing and unpacking of ICD data items are respectively realized according to a format of a big endian or a little endian; modeling is carried out on a relative layout relation of the interface controls and the controls, and controls capable of being automatically distributed are generated according to a tree-like hierarchical structure of the interface configuration files; retransmission of data between two types of bus drives is realized through the bus communication system; transmission and receiving of bus data and analysis and generation of the bus data are decoupled through the DDS communication middleware and a bottom-layer driver.

A computer software testing system comprises an ICD (interface control document) editing module, a data exchange module, a test input module, an analysis simulation module, a system monitoring module and a data management module, wherein the ICD editing module supplies public ICD formats; the data exchange module is connected with a tested target system via a cable and accesses into the Ethernet, so that bidirectional data exchange of hardware of the tested target system and the Ethernet and mapping of the exchanged data and at least one of the ICD formats are completed; the test input module correlates the test input data or file with at least one of the ICD formats to form a command bank and a command sequence; the analysis simulation module is correlated with at least one of the ICD formats so as to analyze test input and output data; the system monitoring module is used for monitoring operating states of various modules in the system and monitoring operating states of hardware interfaces of the tested target system and forms a monitoring bank according to the ICD formats; the data management module is used for acquiring the test input data and the test output data from the Ethernet and stores the data correlated with the ICD formats into a backend database. The modules are all connected into the Ethernet.

A system and method for engineering data into interface control documents is provided. The method includes creating and loading an interface control document by selecting features of an interface control document to create, providing a standards document having interface control document standards, and providing a case tool for maintaining interface control documents. The method provides for generating the interface control document using the standards document and based upon the selected features, and storing the interface control document in the case tool. The method includes designating a document having data attributes for the interface control document, reading at least some of the data attributes from the document, loading at least some of the data attributes read from the document into the interface control document, and storing the interface control document having at least some of the data attributed in the case tool.

The invention provides an ICD (Interface Control Document) integrated management tool. The ICD integrated management tool (namely an internal integrated design tool) consists of a definition design tool, a version maintenance tool, an interface output conversion tool and a system authority review tool, and is connected with a database management tool through a local area network, wherein the definition design tool is used for setting input and output of each module of a project management system and a bus management system in a grading manner in a visual design mode and an intuitive bytes and bit fields parallel design mode; the version maintenance tool forms a whole set of finished version specifications for ICD maintenance by virtue of different version repositories generated in an ICD; the interface output conversion tool is used for converting the ICD into an XML (Extensive Makeup Language) document describing the ICD by virtue of an XML document output system, and provides a whole set of complete conversion interface; and the system authority review tool guarantees the hierarchical authority and the confidential level of the ICD. By virtue of the ICD integrated management tool, the design of the ICD can be simpler, the management of the ICD can be more systemized, and the maintenance of the ICD can be more traceable.

The invention discloses an FC (Fiber Channel) bus test system and an FC bus test method, and relates to the technical field of FC bus test. The FC bus test system comprises a data acquisition module for acquiring board card data, a real-time analysis display module for analyzing the data sent by the data acquisition module in real time, a data recording module for recording the data sent by the data acquisition module, a data pre-processing module for traversing the recorded data file and generating a dictionary file for indexing the corresponding data, an analysis playback module for analyzing the data recorded by the data recording module, a source code playback module for searching the data recorded in the data recording module via the dictionary file and playing back the data, and an ICD (Interface Control Document) data file generation module for generating ICD data files for different models. The FC bus test method accomplishes test of multiple buses by using the test system. The system and the method have the advantages of improving the data retrieval efficiency and implementing post analysis on the acquired data.

The invention discloses a UI management subsystem of an avionics simulation test platform, and aims to provide a UI management system with relatively strong simulation and test capabilities. Accordingto the technical scheme, an ICD signal parser parses an xml format interface control document ICD file to obtain an ICD signal group and a signal, and an interface control automatic generator automatically generates different types of controls and control groups according to the ICD signal group and the signal and an attribute corresponding relation; different types of controls and control groupsare organized in a combined frame window control provided with a title according to a one-column or multi-column mode, organized in a Qt designer window file according to a grid layout mode, and a visual UI file is output; an ICD data packing and unpacking device is mapped to a user interface (UI) file of a corresponding control through an ICD unit attribute relation, automatic packing and unpacking of ICD data of an interface control file are automatically achieved, and data sending, receiving display and data storage of the UI are achieved.

The present invention is a method for providing a high-assurance guard in a partitioned processing system, the partitioned processing system including a first input/output partition, a guard function partition and a second input/output partition, the method including the steps of: receiving a data packet from the first input/output partition of the partitioned processing system via a first I/O interface; determining if the data packet is well-formed as defined by an interface control document; and forwarding the data packet to the second input/output partition of the partitioned processing system and to a second I/O interface only when the data packet is well-formed.

The invention provides an automatic generation method and system for a test script. After a logic expression is obtained and a mapping relationship between a decision condition and an ICD (Interface Control Document) variable is obtained, a test case set corresponding to the logic expression is generated, and the ICD variable corresponding to each decision condition in the logic expression is determined according to the mapping relationship between a decision condition and the ICD variable; and on the basis, according to the ICD variable corresponding to each decision condition in the logic expression and the test case set, generating the test script corresponding to each test case in the test case set. Obviously, an automatic test script generation scheme is realized, the generation efficiency of the test script can be effectively improved, and the introduction of manual errors including grammatical errors, semantic errors and the like can be avoided.

The invention provides a simulation system and a simulation method of an AFDX (Avionics Full Duplex Switched Ethernet) network. Both an end system and an exchanger in the AFDX network are abstracted into discrete event simulation nodes by adopting a discrete event mechanism, AFDX information is abstracted into discrete events for the discrete event simulation nodes, the transmission behavior of the AFDX information in the end system and the retransmission behavior of the AFDX information transmitted from the end system between different ports of the exchanger are simulated by utilizing the transmission and retransmission behaviors of the discrete events, and performance parameters of the AFDX network can be obtained on the basis of the simulation. According to the simulation system and the simulation method, a real information operation mechanism of the AFDX network is simulated by utilizing the discrete events, so that the performance parameters of the AFDX network after each discrete event is ended can be conveniently counted, the system design of the AFDX network is further optimized, and the iteration cycle of the system design is shortened; additionally, an end system simulation module in the simulation system is automatically introduced on the basis of an interface control document, so that the system verification time is reduced.

The invention discloses an electric energy configuration method based on a light WEB server. The method is characterized in that the light tpd WEB server is mounted under a Linux system to support CGI (common gateway interface) access, a CGI program is written according to a particular process, and a user uniformly generates an ICD (interface control document) and a device operating parameter document by WEB operation. A traditional mode of a remote electric energy acquisition device in an intelligent substation based on IEC61850 communication configuration modeling is changed, so that the device operating parameter document and the ICD are configured together without external client software, engineering configuration workload can be greatly reduced, the problem of errors caused by mismatching of the two configuration documents is avoided, and overall operating reliability of the electric energy acquisition device is improved.

The invention relates to an ICD-oriented RS422 bus signal simulation test method. The simulation test is carried out in a simulation system. The simulation system includes a tested avionics equipment, a test platform and a simulator, and an RS422 bus simulation module is installed in the test platform. Controlled by the simulator, the simulator sends the simulation test signal to the avionics equipment under test through the RS422 bus simulation module according to the requirements of the ICD interface protocol. The value is automatically solved and the simulation signal is output and the original code value is recovered as the step of solving the parameter engineering value. Using this method reduces the complexity of the simulation test, not only can carry out the RS422 bus interface communication performance test, but also can carry out the simulation test for the engineering value of the parameters, and comprehensively test the correctness of the ICD interface protocol information.

The invention relates to an automatic self-description interface control document (ICD) encoder, comprising a single chip microcomputer, characterized in that the encoder consists of a single chip microcomputer, a secure digital(SD) card, a clock oscillation circuit and a power filter circuit, the single chip microcomputer being connected with the SD card, writing date into the SD card and also being connected with the serial port of a distribution automation terminal communication unit, the SD card being connected with the serial peripheral interface(SPI) of the distribution automation terminal communication unit, the power filter circuit being connected between the power source and the SD card, and the clock circuit being connected with the single chip microcomputer. Data as remote signaling data, remote measurement data and remote control data, sampled by the distribution automation terminal is automatically generated to be self-description ICD documents meeting the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61850 standard, which avoids the defects of low work efficiency, high malfunction probability and long testing period, resulted from the allocation of manual production remote information point table and manual test point table. The encoder is simple in the structure, convenient in installation and use, and reliable in performance.

The invention provides a fault diagnosis method and system based on the interface control document (ICD). In the system of the invention, an ICD database is used to store benchmark data; a diagnosis script library is used to store a plurality of diagnosis scripts and a plurality of functions called by the diagnosis scripts; and an ICD analysis module analyzes the data packet of a diagnosis object to obtain the data to be diagnosed and the data name. The fault diagnosis method is as follows: according to the data name and data route of the diagnosis object, the data definition of the benchmark data with the same data name and data route is read from the ICD database; the data definition is utilized to convert the data to be diagnosed to the parameter detection result of the data to be diagnosed; and a reasoning module uses the diagnosis scripts and the functions to perform fault diagnosis to the parameter detection result of the data to be diagnosed and outputs a fault diagnosis result. By adopting the method and system of the invention, when fault diagnosis is performed, the ICD is utilized for storage and analysis, thus reducing the computation workload, increasing the universality and the flexibility and having the capability of expressing all kinds of knowledge conveniently and effectively.