Signal modeling focused on resource configuration and information acquisition

Abstract

Some accessorial and peripheral work has often been considered burdensome in preparing a complicated test assignment when operating ATE. Since the signal is one of the most important objects for investigation, it is necessary to acquire the elaborate information of resource and channels in order to contribute to the subsequent configuration. Nevertheless it is difficult and inconvenient to deduce the required knowledge only from the known signals. It seems that some efforts concerning the signal's generation would benefit the puzzle's solution. Aiming to alleviate the limited test resource situations and provide the active, automatic configuration process, this paper proposes a signal modeling method based on Object-Oriented Analysis (OOA) with a general description language, and according to this consideration, an implementation approach which can acquire resource related information from a given signal is discussed. Through the analysis of possible relations between resources and signals, the recursive expressions are presented theoretically, and the signal's resource condition P(S/sub i/) and inheritance priority In(S/sub i/) are put forward to evaluate its generation cost and the feasibility of configuration.