Abstract :
The ATE industry can benefit greatly by becoming better informed about the availability, functionality, and reliability of emulated peripheral solutions. Emulated peripherals provide the ability to dramatically extend the life of aging ATE equipment, while making that equipment more reliable, more functional, much easier to use, and much simpler to support. The use of emulated disk drives and tape drives can completely eliminate persistent maintenance headaches, increase ATE station availability and reliability, and provide a reasonably priced technology refresh without costly software modifications or system recertification.
Keywords :
automatic test equipment; disc drives; magnetic tape storage; maintenance engineering; peripheral interfaces; reliability; ATE station availability; emulated disk drives; emulated peripheral availability/functionality/reliability; emulated tape drives; equipment support/maintenance; legacy ATE life extension; peripheral emulation equipment; technology refresh; Aging; Availability; Companies; Computer peripherals; Costs; Disk drives; Emulation; Manufacturing; Personnel; Timing;
