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An important question you did not answer; How are these components distributed relative to each other, and what is the environment, eg., lots of RFI from motors?
This sounds more like a job for microcontrollers located at each sensor connected together with a robust industrial bus, eg., CAN bus.
FPGAs are good for interfacing to devices with "weird" characteristics, or high-speed I/O. Your task sounds well-suited to multiple inexpensive microcontrollers.
Cheers,
Dave
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Thanks for the reply Dave...
So we are on the same page the prototype that I am currently working on is for an airplane ****pit. Once the prototype has been constructed (which is necessary before we can receive funding), we will then engage with a engineering / design company to redesign the prototype taking into account CASA regulations / electrical engineering standards, etc. for the harsh environment and fail safe requirements necessary for aviation.
One area I did not include details about are the driving of multiple LCD panels for display purposes within the ****pit but I don't envisage that this will affect the selection of components at this stage.
Mark
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