Making a tester out of a heterogeneous collection of instruments

Author

Sacher, Eric

Author_Institution

Serendipity Systems, Inc., Sedona, AZ, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

20-23 Sep 1993

Firstpage

601

Lastpage

603

Abstract

VXI has provided the test equipment user with a versatile hardware platform that supports a wide variety of instrumentation. Many automatic test equipment (ATE) users have discovered that a collection of instruments does not comprise a test system that is suitable for production testing. What is missing is the software glue that orchestrates and controls the testing process. This paper presents the system architecture, implementation, and experience history of a VXI-based test system that is configured using off-the-shelf modules and bound with a custom software run-time framework

Keywords

automatic test equipment; automatic test software; computer architecture; fault diagnosis; peripheral interfaces; production testing; ATE; VXI; automatic test equipment; collection of instruments; data logging; fault isolation; hardware platform; heterogeneous collection; off-the-shelf modules; production testing; test programming environment; Automatic control; Automatic test equipment; Automatic testing; Hardware; Instruments; Process control; Production systems; Software testing; System testing; Test equipment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AUTOTESTCON '93. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference. Proceedings

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0646-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.1993.396301

Filename

396301