Build or Buy: The Strains of Designing a Flight Recorder
Designing a flight recorder (FR) that complies to international standards and crash survivability is very challenging and more expensive than buying one.
Today’s embedded-system designers have a great variety of processor types to select from, with FPGAs and GPUs adding their own various advantages and disadvantages for consideration in contrast to the more familiar CPUs.
The wave of commercially developed communications and remote-sensing satellites seeks to balance costs, capability, size, weight, and power consumption in the latest new space designs.