The customer required a solution that offered high logic density for control and signal-processing workloads, reliable high-speed interfaces for sensor and payload connectivity, and a proven development ecosystem to accelerate time-to-deployment. They needed a QDR-IV memory support for high bandwidth and deterministic latency, ensuring the platform could handle large data throughput and algorithmic computation while maintaining long-term reliability in airborne environments. Additional challenges included achieving low-latency PCIe data transfers, thermal stability during continuous operation, and ensuring scalability for future UAV variants.