Simulators
Simulation, in one form or another, provides the equipment developer with the means of selecting the best design approach. The recent advances in the field of signal processing with the much improved processing electronics, software languages and development tools offer the promise of radically different solutions to a wide range of civil and defence requirements. Typically, the complex electronics based control systems that are at the heart of many avionics, plant control and weapon systems rely on the successful implementation of the numerous real-time processing tasks. Further, there is a general desire on the part of the customer for such equipment to have minimal human involvement in the operation and maintenance of the equipment. It is therefore evident that software based, multi processing, electronic designs will increasingly take on the burden of this much sought after capability.The rapid advance of software based processing systems has encouraged the replacement of human control and decision making by machines. Where this involves high cost, human safety or use in extreme environments the system performance has to be rigorously established. In these cases simulators will be needed and their planned use to support multiple functions during the life of the equipment is sensible and economic.
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