Title :
Adoption of commercial standards in an open system architecture for test system design
Author :
Schuhmacher, Chris ; Johnson, Patrick R.
Author_Institution :
Support Syst. Associates Inc., Lakehurst, NJ, USA
Abstract :
The Department of Defense is promulgating the use of commercial standards and open system principles with regard to ATE acquisitions. This paper describes a strategy being used to adopt commercial standards into a test system architecture based on open system principles. Technology specific ATS can be derived from this general ATS architecture and retain the benefits expressed at the general level. The architecture will promote costs savings in three areas: component interchangeability, Test Program Set (TPS) transportability, and test data exchange
Keywords :
automatic test equipment; automatic test software; economics; military computing; software portability; ATE acquisition; ATS architecture; Department of Defense; Test Program Set transportability; commercial standards; component interchangeability; costs savings; open system; open system architecture; test data exchange; test system design; Application software; Automatic testing; Computer architecture; Cost function; Investments; Lakes; Open systems; Reverse engineering; Subspace constraints; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1998. NAECON 1998. Proceedings of the IEEE 1998 National
Conference_Location :
Dayton, OH
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4449-9
DOI :
10.1109/NAECON.1998.710116
