An overview of the open architecture test system

An open architecture test system has been envisioned to address the re-usability of the test solutions. The open architecture provides a method and framework under which software and test instruments of different vendors can be developed and integrated into an automatic test equipment (ATE). The framework uses standard interfaces so that each modular unit (software or hardware) can be replaced with another modular unit from a different vendor. The basic structure of the Open Architecture Test System is described in this paper.