Patent ID: 11970286
Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LIMITED
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G  H | IPC B  H

Claim 11:
12. A method of operating a flight recorder system of an aircraft, the flight recorder system including a first flight recorder module (FRM) having a first local memory and a first set of memory-mapped I/O ports and a second FRM, having a second local memory and a second set of memory-mapped I/O ports, comprising:
communicatively coupling a resource control module (RCM) to a switch fabric, and configured to receive data from the switch fabric;
communicatively coupling the first FRM and second FRM to the switch fabric;
detecting, by the RCM, the first FRM;
reading, by the RCM, at least one of the first local memory and the first set of memory-mapped I/O ports of the first FRM, the reading indicative of a current phase of flight of the aircraft;
configuring, by the RCM, an operation of the switch fabric based on the indicated phase of flight of the aircraft;
configuring, by the RCM, an operation of the first FRM;
providing data to the first FRM;
saving a first portion of the data to the first local memory of the first FRM; and
retrieving, by the second FRM, a second portion of the data from the first FRM;
wherein the first and second FRM respectively comprise one of a CVR, an FDR, or a CSR.