Avionics processing system trends and implications

Abstract

Future tactical aircraft avionics processing systems development will be significantly different than in the past. Requirements growth will plateau. Processing device performance parameters will grow exponentially. Processing systems will continue to decrease in size. System complexity and bandwidth will increasingly reside within the processing devices themselves. All this will have significant implications for avionics system architectures and interconnect structures. And, as a consequence, the system architecture can be implemented in a relatively simple network based on COTS serial interconnects.