This book offers a comprehensive view of avionics. Complete with case studies of avionics architectures as well as examples of modern systems flying on current military and civil aircraft, this Third Edition of a perennial bestseller includes ten brand-new chapters covering new topics and emerging trends, significant restructuring to deliver a more coherent and cohesive story, and updates to all existing chapters to reflect the latest software and technologies. It also discusses new data bus and display concepts involving retina scanning, speech interaction, and synthetic vision.