The future of automatic test system (ATS) brought by Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing becomes important computing technology, such as Google, Micro Soft, IBM and Amazon. Cloud Computing is a kind of parallel computing spreading into Internet. The "Cloud" mainly represents the Web based on the TCP/IP protocol or protocols compatible with that. Cloud Computing expands the range of parallel computing into all of the computing devices connecting into the "Cloud". In "Cloud Computing" era, almost all of the data and operation capability will be distracted from the Automatic Test System (ATS), and run in the Web. The decreased demand for hardware could cut the budget and cost of ATS. At the same time, the cloud service will reform the measurement mode of test system, as well the modes of development and fault diagnostics.