Test equipment refresh for high reliability, mission critical hardware

Author

Buckley, Sonia ; Chalifour, Gerard R.

Author_Institution

Syst. Integration, Test, & Evaluation Div., Charles Stark Draper Lab., Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

15-18 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

96

Lastpage

100

Abstract

Addressing the challenges to reviving legacy test capability is a frequent problem facing industry. This is especially true of high reliability, low volume production military hardware with two or more decades for each life cycle. This paper describes the challenges faced when reviving a test capability for module and system test after being dormant for over a decade. Two different test station architectures are presented: traditional COTS vs. a combination of COTS and reuse. The trades used in the selection process are described which include; cost, development and support labor, risk, and technical benefits.

Keywords

automatic test equipment; military computing; product life cycle management; software architecture; software maintenance; software reusability; COTS; legacy test capability; mission-critical hardware; module test station architecture; product lifecycle; production military hardware; test equipment refresh; test software reusability; Backplanes; Gold; Hardware; Software; Test equipment; Underwater vehicles; SEM-E; test equipment refresh;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AUTOTESTCON, 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

St. Louis, MO

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3389-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.2014.6935128

Filename

6935128