Title :
Modular software for VME/VXI subsystems
Author :
Hughes, Richard ; Miller, Edward ; Riall, Charles
Author_Institution :
Westinghouse Electr. Corp., Hunt Valley, MD, USA
Abstract :
As part of a standardization effort, a software architecture was designed to control high-speed devices within an ATE (automatic test equipment) system. Devices that require real-time responses were located in a subsystem controlled by a dedicated processor. A host computer communicates with the subsystem using a communications bus (referred to as the host bus). The hardware chosen to implement this design consisted of a VMEbus card rack (later a VXIbus card rack) containing a minimum of one single-board computer and an interface to the host bus. Software was implemented using a commercial real-time operating system kernel. The modular architecture enables users to configure the subsystem hardware and software components to satisfy requirements for their specific applications
Keywords :
automatic test equipment; computer interfaces; ATE; VMEbus card rack; VXIbus card rack; automatic test equipment; dedicated processor; high-speed devices; host bus; modular architecture; modular software; standardization; Automatic control; Automatic test equipment; Communication system control; Computer interfaces; Control systems; Hardware; Real time systems; Software architecture; Software design; Standardization;
Conference_Titel :
AUTOTESTCON '89. IEEE Automatic Testing Conference. The Systems Readiness Technology Conference. Automatic Testing in the Next Decade and the 21st Century. Conference Record.
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
DOI :
10.1109/AUTEST.1989.81109
