Communication regulation in computing systems

An aircraft, comprising:

• one or more computing systems, comprising:
• a first processing device coupled to a first control device, wherein the first control device is a first field-programmable gate array, the first processing device being separate from the first control device;
• a second processing device coupled to a second control device, wherein the second control device is a second field-programmable gate array, the second processing device being separate from the second control device;
• and a communications interface communicatively coupled to the first control device, the communications interface comprising one or more input/output communication ports configured to facilitate communication between the one or more computing systems and one or more external devices;
• wherein the first control device is communicatively coupled to the second control device via a shared bus, and is communicatively coupled to the input/output ports, wherein the first control device is configured to regulate all communications between the first processing device and the communications interface and the second processing device, via the second processor's second control device, and the communications interface, and wherein in regulating all of the communications between the communications interface and the second processing device, the first field-programmable gate array device provides a communication path between the communications interface and the second processing device that does not include the first processing device and in regulating all of the communications between the communications interface and the first processing device, the first field-programmable gate array device provides a communication path between the communications interface and the first processing device that does not include the second processing device.

A method of regulating data associated with a computing system, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a first control logic device associated with a computing device, a communication request to gain communication access to a communication port associated with a communications interface of a computing system, the computing system comprising a first processing board comprising a first processing device and the first control logic device, wherein the first control device is a first field-programmable gate array, the first processing device being separate from the first control logic device, the computing system further comprising a second processing board comprising a second processing device and a second control logic device, wherein the second control device is a second field-programmable gate array, the second processing device being separate from the second control device;
• a communications interface comprising one or more input/output ports;
• wherein the first control logic device is coupled to the second control logic device via a shared bus and is communicatively coupled to the input/output ports;
• identifying, by the first control logic device, a current communications status associated with the communication port;
• determining, by the first control logic device, a priority order between the first processing device and the second processing device, and wherein the first processing device is given communication priority over the second processing device;
• and providing, by the first control logic device, access to the communication port to the first processing device or the second processing device based at least in part on the communications status and the priority order, wherein the first and second control logic devices are first and second processing devices, and wherein when the first control device provides access to the first processing device based at least in part on the communications status and the priority order, the first control device provides a communication path between the communication port and the first processing device that does not include the second processing device and when the first control device provides access to the second processing device, the first control device provides a communication path between the communication port and the second processing device that does not include the first processing device;
• wherein the first control device communicates with the second processing device via the second processing device's second control device.