Nondenominational digital test programming for functional test

Writing functional digital tests has always been a taxing process. Traditionally, every digital test hardware manufacturer provided software tools that operated similarly yet different than the competing product. This is particularly true of the proprietary test systems prevalent circa 1970s and 1980s. This caused a proliferation of different test languages and test programming tools throughout the test industry. This paper describes software that was designed to provide a test program application bridge between legacy digital test hardware and modern digital test automatic test equipment (ATE). Furthermore, the software provides contemporary users with a common language and operating framework for supporting digital test programs over competing digital test hardware. Description of the application is augmented by design discussion and implementation details.