The problem I see when taking that long to develop the electronics is that they may be well behind by the time you get them on the market. You
may have gotten all the bugs out, but end up having obsolete electronics, with the competition having passed you.
C2R did some novel stuff with their electronics like the auto calibration. Bill Stone and his team may have raised the bar considerably with the MK-VI's dual sensor layout and continuous automatic sensor verification. If that system works as they hope it'll be quite a large step towards safety. And make the three sensor voting logic layouts pretty much obsolete.
SMI already have cell-tracking, APD and C2R already have temperature based scrubber gauges, C-L, APD, DR, JM and SW already have integrated deco. So even if ISC adds either of those, they're just catching up.
The one thing currently missing is a working, affordable CO2 sensor, which will be a big step forward. And still translate into being behind in respect to pO2 management if the P/C-L works out ...
That would put every manufacturer on notice ...
