COMMON TERMINOLOGY AND FUNCTIONS FOR SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION AND LOADING ARINC645-1

This document provides airlines, airframe manufacturers, aircraft equipment suppliers, and others with information that is specific to data, software, and ground tools used in aviation configuration and data management.

As a starting point, this document provides guidance on:

• Which standard to use in specific situations
• The use of and how integrity checks should be applied
• Common terminology in airborne software management

Since airplanes started using software controlled hardware, there has been a need to standardize processes and terminology. This document is the centroid to which other software standards are related.