Replacing the HP2100 computer in US Navy test sets

Author

Sandy, Elden R.

Author_Institution

Support Equipment Eng. Branch, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Div., Point Mugu, CA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

20-22 Sep 1994

Firstpage

443

Lastpage

449

Abstract

The DOD has a large investment in ATE which has become increasingly difficult and costly to repair due to non-availability of parts and trained maintenance personnel. One example is the AN/DPM-22 Guided Missile Components Test Station, a 1970 vintage test set based on the Hewlett Packard 9500 Automated Test System. In order to increase the service life of the AN/DPM-22, the US Navy opted to replace the Hewlett Packard 2100S computer and its peripherals with an IBM-compatible 80486. One requirement was to retain the existing test equipment, which has an assortment of IEEE Standard 488 compatible and peculiar parallel interfaces. Another requirement was to minimize the software changes. This paper addresses the hardware and software designs which were implemented to achieve those goals

Keywords

IEEE standards; automatic test equipment; automatic test software; computer architecture; military systems; missiles; AN/DPM-22; AN/DPM-22 Guided Missile Components Test Station; ATE; DOD; HP2100 computer; Hewlett Packard 2100S computer; Hewlett Packard 9500 Automated Test System; IBM-compatible 80486; IEEE Standard 488; US Navy; US Navy test sets; hardware designs; parallel interfaces; repair; service life; software changes; software designs; Automatic testing; Computer peripherals; Hardware; Investments; Military computing; Missiles; Personnel; System testing; Test equipment; US Department of Defense;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AUTOTESTCON '94. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference. 'Cost Effective Support Into the Next Century', Conference Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1910-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.1994.381585

Filename

381585