{"title":"Demonstrating the capabilities of IEEE standard P1636.2 mai in support of the DoD ATS framework","authors":"M. Modi, J. Stanco","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2009.5314006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2009.5314006","url":null,"abstract":"The ATS Framework Working Group focuses on identifying commercial standards that are not only acceptable to the needs of the DoD, but to industry as well. Therefore, the group is tasked with supporting, evaluating, and demonstrating the ability of the standards to meet the ATS Framework goals and objectives. Of particular interest to this paper is the ATS key element Maintenance Test Data and Services (MTDS). This key element addresses a need to share information across maintenance levels and across DoD / Industry ATS. The current information structures are often Service or platform dependant. Even though these systems do a good job of providing a logistics infrastructure, they seldom share information back to the maintenance chain or across platforms and Services. The sharing of this information is essential in performing complex and sophisticated diagnostics over the product's life cycle. Given a standard set of definitions and data formats, information may be shared among all users who have implemented the standard data content and format.","PeriodicalId":187421,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132130917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mission assurance through Test Program Set analysis","authors":"Y. Eracar, T. Lopes","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2009.5314070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2009.5314070","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a brief overview of the challenges of test requirements collection for Test Program Set (TPS) maintenance or re-hosting. The paper specifies a TPS analysis framework to address these issues and provides implementation guidelines using application examples with a focus on digital testing.","PeriodicalId":187421,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124656760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using virtualization to reduce the cost of test","authors":"Casey Weltzin, S. Delgado","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2009.5314086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2009.5314086","url":null,"abstract":"Virtualization is a technology that enables running two or more operating systems simultaneously on a single computer. This paper will explain how virtualization software operates, compare the major types of virtualization software available, and explain how virtualization can reduce hardware cost in automatic test systems.","PeriodicalId":187421,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122274912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimization test mission scheduling strategy study based on ATML","authors":"Xiangyu Gao, Lei Wang, Lei Song","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2009.5314046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2009.5314046","url":null,"abstract":"In order to overcome the problem of the sophisticated tasks and low efficiency of army aircraft test, an optimization test mission scheduling strategy based on ATML is presented. Firstly, test mission scheduling ICOM description and hierarchical framework is proposed, and then standard XML schema about test mission is defined by ATML. Secondly, test mission scheduling model is set up and taboo search evolutionary algorithm to overcoming it is put forward. At last, the good performance of the strategy is proved by experiment.","PeriodicalId":187421,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116678272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE-1445 (DTIF) based digital test solution","authors":"R. Yazma, A. Quan","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2009.5314007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2009.5314007","url":null,"abstract":"The digital test interchange format (DTIF) is defined by the IEEE-1445 specification and provides a standardized digital data interchange format that can be used with various digital test environments. This standardized format, when used in conjunction with tools for post-processing of DTIF files and appropriate functional test digital hardware, offers a cost effective and viable solution for migrating legacy TPS's to a modern digital test system platform. This paper provides an overview of how DTIF files generated by simulator tools such as Teradyne's LASAR simulator can be used in conjunction with modern digital test post-processing tools and hardware to provide a robust TPS migration strategy for legacy digital test applications including support for Go / No-Go tests, guided probe and fault dictionary functionality. This methodology offers wide applicability for a number of applications that were originally developed on digital test platforms such as the GenRad 1795 / 1796 / 2225/ 2235/ 2750, the Hewlett Packard DTS-70, Teradyne L200 / L300, and Schlumberger 790.","PeriodicalId":187421,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115566365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Instrument design that solves the challenges of both legacy and emerging test requirements","authors":"C. Heide, D. Kaushansky","doi":"10.1109/MIM.2010.5521862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MIM.2010.5521862","url":null,"abstract":"In addition to designing an automatic test system (ATS) that meets a customer's current and emerging test requirements, many system integrators must also meet the challenge of creating a system that maintains a customer's investment in existing test program sets (TPSs). Meeting this challenge is difficult because most COTS test instruments are not designed with legacy requirements in mind. Rather, they are designed to meet current test requirements with an eye toward anticipating future requirements. Instruments designed to meet legacy requirements typically do not have much capability to address emerging requirements because the design focus is on emulating previous instrument capabilities and behaviors as exactly as possible. Test instrument manufacturers can help system integrators overcome this challenge by designing instruments that meet the challenges of both legacy and emerging test requirements. While new technology such as FPGAs and advanced DSP can go a long way toward helping the designer meet both challenges, creating an instrument that successfully matches both sets of requirements requires great care in applying the technology to achieve a high degree of flexibility. This paper starts with a discussion of why a design for flexibility approach is so important to the instrument vendor, the ATS integrator, and the end customer. The paper concludes with design guidance and examples illustrating the success of such an approach.","PeriodicalId":187421,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124228514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advanced architecture for achieving true vertical testability in next generation ATE","authors":"D. Droste, G. Guilbeaux","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2009.5314088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2009.5314088","url":null,"abstract":"Equivalent test results across maintenance levels have long been an elusive target for both military and commercial users. The fundamental reason for this is that it has been impractical to deploy the same ATE forward at the operations level as well as in support locations and/or depots. Forward deployed ATE tends to be based on requirements for ruggedness, transportability and a small footprint. In addition, it is usually targeted to support a small number of weapon system components. The other extreme is depot or factory ATE, with requirements for support of more weapon system components, and tending to have wider overall capability and a larger footprint. Because of the diverse size and packaging issues associated with the different environments, invariably, different ATE backplanes and instrument packaging formats are selected for each environment. Use of different instruments at each of the maintenance levels may lead to Can-Not-Duplicates (CNDs) at the depot test for electronic components pulled out of service based on test results of forward-deployed ATE. The goal of having test equivalence (eliminating CNDs) at the various levels is referred to as “Vertical Testability”.","PeriodicalId":187421,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127300905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of a software defined, FPGA-based reconfigurable RF Measuring Receiver","authors":"M. Hunter, A. Kourtellis, W. Mikhael","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2009.5313998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2009.5313998","url":null,"abstract":"Digital Signal Processing (DSP) plays a central role in the implementation of software-defined, Synthetic Instruments (SI) [1]–[5]. Moving as many signal processing tasks as possible from the analog to the digital domain makes for a more flexible, future-proof system. Advances in DSP can also be exploited to reduce the complexity of, or remove completely, the analog components. In this work, the design of a high performance FPGA-Based Radio Frequency (RF) Measuring Receiver is described. It is shown how advanced DSP can be used to synthesize multiple measurements from a single source on a compact, software defined platform.","PeriodicalId":187421,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115777182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using PAWS® CIIL emulation modules to rehost Test Program Sets written in the Abbreviated Test Language for All Systems (ATLAS)","authors":"Daniel Zimmermann","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2009.5314052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2009.5314052","url":null,"abstract":"The Abbreviated Test Language for All Systems (ATLAS, IEEE Std 716) is a higher order language for testing that has been used extensively by the US and foreign militaries and aircraft manufacturers for approximately 40 years. These users have one thing in common: the devices that they test have a much longer service life than the systems on which they are tested. Programs written in ATLAS are easier to migrate from one Automatic Test System (ATS) to another because they specify the requirements of the Unit-Under-Test (UUT) in a signal oriented fashion rather than the programming syntax of the test equipment. A compiler matches the ATS capabilities to the UUT requirements, which allows developers to create test programs that are independent of the test equipment that will be used.","PeriodicalId":187421,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115806246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Powering intelligent instruments with Lua scripting","authors":"D. Clark","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2009.5314042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2009.5314042","url":null,"abstract":"As the power of the integrated processors that control today's instruments continues to climb, instrument vendors will increasingly add features that allow users to utilize the added intelligence by embedding custom applications directly onboard the instrument. For the test, measurement and automation industries, this paradigm is a complement to, among other things, the advent of synthetic instruments that can “be anything you want,” the frequent use of mezzanine type hardware and the rise of the LXI specification in which instrument to instrument messaging allows one instrument to control and communicate with another without the necessity of a host PC.","PeriodicalId":187421,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE AUTOTESTCON","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114852432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}