Implementation of liquid crystal display of flight and engine parameters through field programmable gate array

Aircraft Cockpit Instrument System normally has conventional electromechanical instruments for Flight and Engine parameters of prime importance to the crew. These instruments include flight instruments like, Vertical Speed Indication (VSI), Standby Altitude Indicator, Combined Speed Indicator, Altimeter, Radio Magnetic Indicator (RMI). The Engine and Fuel instrument include RPM indicator, Turbine Exhaust Gas Temperature (TGT) indicator, Nozzle Position indicator, Fuel Flow meter, Fuel content indicator. In addition to flight and engine parameter indicators, a gyro magnetic compass (GMC) and Hydraulic pressure indicator are also required. The scope of project is the implementation of warning and parameter display MSC1212 microcontroller and the Virtex 6 FPGA kit. A 2*16 character LCD display is a part of Vertex 6 FPGA kit. Data acquisition block is interfaced with of Vertex 6 FPGA kit by RS232 serial interface. RS232 implementation is done in VHDL on FPGA kit. LCD display is integrated by use of VHDL Xilinx IP and customising it as per application need.