Simplifying the instrument selection process in a hardware independent environment

Author

Hill, Chris

Author_Institution

Syst. Group, Texas Instrum. Inc., Lewisville, TX, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

22-25 Sep 1997

Firstpage

318

Lastpage

322

Abstract

Achieving hardware-independence in a Signal-Oriented test software framework relies on a flexible procedure for selecting instruments when a test is executed. The procedure requires a list of available instrument knowledge of the requirements of the signal, knowledge of the capability of the instruments, and a means for making an instrument selection. With this information, instrument selection can be made statically by a user before run-time or dynamically as the test is run. This paper discusses how the required information is obtained from the framework and describes a tool that presents this information and facilitates a static instrument selection process

Keywords

automatic test equipment; automatic test software; graphical user interfaces; object-oriented methods; resource allocation; file resources; flexible procedure; hardware independent environment; object oriented environment; resource binding table tool; signal-oriented test software; static instrument selection; Automatic testing; Computer architecture; Hardware; Instruments; Programming profession; Resource management; Runtime; Signal processing; Software testing; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AUTOTESTCON, 97. 1997 IEEE Autotestcon Proceedings

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4162-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.1997.633636

Filename

633636