{"title":"Iconic test programming a tool for test program interoperability","authors":"Patrice Demazoin, J. Barbier","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885589","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a methodology that significantly reduces the cost of test program set development through Iconic Programming Software and in addition simplifies portability between different ATE. The method achieves these goals through a user-friendly interface, which is largely independent of the ATE but can still produce a standardized test specification if required. This method is based on an Aerospatiale Matra Test and Services tool \"VISUAL ATE\" which requires no particular knowledge of a test programming language. The developer can concentrate on the technology of the equipment to be tested and is not distracted by details of the equipment used to perform the test. The method enables the application of a bottom-up program development methodology that gives the user the opportunity to incrementally develop his test program. This leads to cost-savings through maximum re-use of developments starting from design through to end user maintenance.","PeriodicalId":334061,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Autotestcon Proceedings. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference. Future Sustainment for Military Aerospace (Cat. No.00CH37057)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114734524","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":"STE and calibration.....the IPT approach","authors":"B. Willoughby","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885584","url":null,"abstract":"Times have changed: the threat today is not what it was 10 or even 5 years ago. Today the Navy has the same number of surface combatants as it did in the 1930's. Defense spending is down worldwide; yet the U.S. still represents 33% of worldwide defense spending, in contrast to Russia's now 7% representation. This has driven us to greatly extended life cycles for our systems and drives us to greatly reduce development times. There are many traps to schedule reduction; one of them is in the area of special test equipment (STE). Today we no longer buy black boxes or standalone weapons, but rather we buy integrated weapons system. This provides a great challenge to the STE community and hence the metrology community as well. The interactions between subsystems (and hence test equipment as well) produce conditions of tolerance stack up which can produce out of spec test results from subassemblies that are within spec. This paper discusses some of the problems we have seen with regard to STE and potential calibration problems. We will then discuss a potential model and solution to reduce these problems.","PeriodicalId":334061,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Autotestcon Proceedings. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference. Future Sustainment for Military Aerospace (Cat. No.00CH37057)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121925285","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":"Hardware emulation and test at the flightline","authors":"L. Orlidge","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885580","url":null,"abstract":"Confirming mission readiness is the most critical function flightline testers perform. Ideally, pre-night mission readiness assessments would exercise and verify every critical function of the weapon system that could be called upon in battle. No existing flightline test system can provide this level of readiness assessment. So what is wrong with today's testers? First, it is not practical to perform operational end-to-end testing of major subsystems with conventional testers. Second, many testers cannot readily make use of failure data that is available from on-board vehicle health monitoring systems or current testers use hardware intensive architectures-architectures that drive performance versus size, weight, and total ownership cost tradeoffs. How can we change this? Integrating portable maintenance aids (PMAs) and maintenance information systems into the test repertoire can help significantly; however, these solutions do little to augment the information available for system test and diagnosis. Adding conventional test instrumentation under PMA control would provide the additional information we seek, but as cited above, hardware intensive solutions is one of the problems with today's flightline testers. Emulating test instrumentation using virtual instruments (VI) specifically addresses the problems and limitations associated with hardware intensive test systems. This paper will describe the VI concept and Honeywell's two embodiments of VI, and will discuss VI's applicability to flightline test and the next generation automatic test systems.","PeriodicalId":334061,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Autotestcon Proceedings. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference. Future Sustainment for Military Aerospace (Cat. No.00CH37057)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122029785","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":"MIL-STD-1553 using a universal serial bus and a notebook PC","authors":"Paul Harames, N. Stong","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885653","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the rational and design evolution for the use of MIL-STD-1553 designs incorporating a universal serial bus interface. The discussion is centered on designs used on notebook class computers to perform software loading and verification using the 1553 bus. Advantages over using similar solutions, such as the commonly available PCMCIA/1553 interfaces, are described.","PeriodicalId":334061,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Autotestcon Proceedings. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference. Future Sustainment for Military Aerospace (Cat. No.00CH37057)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123780595","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":"The role of a signal interface in supporting instrument interchangeability","authors":"N. Ramachandran, R. Oblad, I. Neag, D. Tyler","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885621","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the principles of instrument interchangeability in Automatic Test Systems by identifying the effects of instrument replacement and by analyzing the existing solutions for interchangeability problems. The \"robust\" instrument interchangeability provided by the IVI-MSS approach is presented in detail. The solution proposed in the paper consists of the standardization of a Signal Interface as semantic contents for IVI-MSS interfaces. Besides the inherent advantages of the IVI-MSS architecture, this approach provides portability of components among different testing environments. The functional requirements, integration issues and associated business model for the proposed solution are analyzed.","PeriodicalId":334061,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Autotestcon Proceedings. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference. Future Sustainment for Military Aerospace (Cat. No.00CH37057)","volume":"os-1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127990303","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":"Combining the \"information\" and \"measurement\" worlds to improve system performance and operational readiness","authors":"F. Cruger, B. Zarlingo, J. Regazzi","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885633","url":null,"abstract":"Standardization of software and hardware interfaces has led to a breakthrough in measurement product architectures. It is now possible to embed the \"measurement science\" of high-performance automatic test equipment in a PC. Doing so provides connectivity with other PC-based applications, making it possible to connect the operational and maintenance world with the worlds of manufacturing and design. \"Real-world\" results can now impact next-generation improvements, while next-generation design and simulation data can be used to enhance \"real-world\" performance.","PeriodicalId":334061,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Autotestcon Proceedings. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference. Future Sustainment for Military Aerospace (Cat. No.00CH37057)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128977674","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":"A signal server software architecture","authors":"S. Jones","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885612","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the conceptual structure of a signal server written to operate in both ATLAS test environments and non-ATLAS (e.g., C/C++, LabWindows, etc.) environments. The signal server, along with associated run-time utilities, is fully capable of dynamically processing all modifiers and structures (such as CNX pin lists) required by the typical ATLAS statement. Drivers which operate in the ATLAS environment may also interface to an ATLAS-like structure provided by a C/C++ program. Therefore the net result is ATLAS-like source code operating in a non-ATLAS environment, providing the signal structure advantages of ATLAS without the overhead costs of an ATLAS compiler. This makes possible extension ATLAS language advantages into the evolving commercial tools.","PeriodicalId":334061,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Autotestcon Proceedings. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference. Future Sustainment for Military Aerospace (Cat. No.00CH37057)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132057615","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":"Test software design techniques for reuse and portability","authors":"B. DeAbren","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885610","url":null,"abstract":"A test station software, developed using LabWindows/sup TM//CVI/sup TM/, was implemented using a flexible architecture and modular design techniques in order to facilitate reuse and portability during the various stages of product development. The various software components-User Interface, Instrument Control, Data Collection, and Results Analysis-were partitioned into independent sub-units with limited end clearly defined interfaces between each other. This eliminated the coupling of software modules across software components. A test station configuration software component was also designed to centralize access and distribution of test station data.","PeriodicalId":334061,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Autotestcon Proceedings. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference. Future Sustainment for Military Aerospace (Cat. No.00CH37057)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127497766","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":"Nanotechnology-based molecular test equipment (MTE) for circuit board test","authors":"R. G. Wright, M. Zgol, L. Kirkland","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885579","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes original research efforts in the design, simulation, and development of nanotechnology-based molecular test equipment (MTE). This is a research effort for testing printed circuit boards independent of traditional automatic test equipment (ATE) through the fabrication of MTE within integrated circuits (ICs). The MTE is embedded within the IC substrate and encapsulated within nanoprobes that connect between the surface and the substrate of the IC at various functional areas. A process is followed whereby IC device simulation is performed to assess the electrical, chemical, and structural properties of integrated and adjacent substrate devices. Through this approach the nominal and failed device performance parameters of interest to substrate-based MTE are found. Discussion of the development and application of MTE within IC architectures is provided, including such topics as the effect of substrate composition on the design and realization of MTE, interfaces between MTE and IC devices, and reporting of MTE results to the IC surface and technician. Potential application areas within different device functions will also be identified. A chemical structure diagram is also provided to illustrate the implementation of MTE using discrete device configurations with MTE-augmented logic.","PeriodicalId":334061,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Autotestcon Proceedings. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference. Future Sustainment for Military Aerospace (Cat. No.00CH37057)","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123484877","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":"Automating legacy off-load efforts","authors":"S. Wegener","doi":"10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUTEST.2000.885596","url":null,"abstract":"The Department of Defense is funding a number of substantial efforts to reduce the number of older legacy test stations and replacing them with standard more modern test systems. This will require a re-host of several hundred Units Under Test (UUTs) to the newer test systems. Several million lines of legacy source code will require analysis, while several million lines of new source code will be generated. Software tools can provide an automated means to analyze legacy code and to translate it to the target source code.","PeriodicalId":334061,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Autotestcon Proceedings. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference. Future Sustainment for Military Aerospace (Cat. No.00CH37057)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125712213","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}