An ATLAS to C conversion utility for VDATS

Author

Zieg, Eric

Author_Institution

581 Software Maintenance Squadron, United States Air Force, Robins AFB, GA

fYear

2008

fDate

8-11 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

616

Lastpage

618

Abstract

The USAF Versatile Automated Depot Test Station (VDATS) is the target platform for hundreds of ATLAS test programs presently supported on obsolete test systems. The ATLAS test language is very commonly used throughout the Department of Defense (DOD) in legacy test programs. National Instruments LabWindows/CVI, with its ANSI C programming language, has become a standard test program language in most commercial sectors. The VDATS program has selected LabWindows/CVI as a standard test language. Because of this, there is a requirement to rehost older ATLAS test programs from obsolete testers into LabWindows/CVI on the VDATS. This paper presents a code translator that was developed to translate 3 implementations of ATLAS (IEEE 716-1982, IFTE, OS390) to LabWindows/CVI.

Keywords

aerospace computing; aircraft testing; automatic test equipment; program interpreters; programming languages; ANSI C programming language; ATLAS test language; ATLAS test programs; IEEE 716-1982; IFTE; National Instruments LabWindows/CVI; OS390; USAF Versatile Automated Depot Test Station; VDATS; code translator; standard test program language; Automatic testing; Cities and towns; Computer languages; Costs; Instruments; Software maintenance; Software testing; System testing; Test equipment; US Department of Defense; ANSI C; ATLAS; CVI; TPS; VDATS; conversion; rehost; translator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AUTOTESTCON, 2008 IEEE

Conference_Location

Salt Lake Cirty, UT

ISSN

1088-7725

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2225-8

Electronic_ISBN

1088-7725

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.2008.4662692

Filename

4662692