Possible Resolutions to Out-of-Order frames in the nexus files

[Modularius]

Description of task

If frames appearing out of temporal order in the nexus file proves problematic, a resolution should be decided upon. Possible solutions include:

Option	Pros	Cons
Discarding any incomplete frames at the aggregator stage	Easy to implement	If a single digitiser fails to transmit for an extended period, all frames would be lost during this fault
Maintain a latest timestamp variable and discard any digitiser messages that appears earlier, and does not belong to a currently cached partial frame	Pretty easy to implement	Some data loss
Add a pipeline component after the nexus writer that checks for out-of-order frames and reorders data as necessary	No data loss	Potentially difficult to implement, may not be feasible in real-time
Integrate aggregator and nexus writer	No data loss	Most difficult to implement, same problems as above, and loss of robustness