Army Digital Test Requirements Analytic Report.

Abstract

During the past decade, both the capabilities and technology of Army electronic equipment have rapidly advanced with the advent of microprocessor-based systems and complex VLSI chips. The testing of these existing microprocessor-based systems/boards is presently straining the existing Army ATE assets in that expensive interface adaptors must be used for testing the microprocessor bidirectional data bus. Also, the digital pattern rate is at or above the upper limit of Army ATE and excessive test times are required because of limited bit pattern depth in existing Army ATE. This report deals with an analytic approach taken to identify the analysis of the Army digital test requirements of the next 5-8 years (1988-1991). An envelope of digital technology parameters was developed after an analysis of data extracted from ten military systems, six commercial systems, trade journals, conferences, technical manuals and ATE industry surveys. The report also addresses the premises that will be used to identify ATE requirements for the maintenance support of the present and future Army equipment. These premises will be used as a basis to generate a second report on ATE test requirements. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA137394

Entities

People

  • Mónica Kelly
  • W. Schmitt

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Central Processing Units
  • Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductors
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Digital Data
  • Electronic Components
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Large Scale Integration
  • Semiconductors
  • Software Development
  • Test Equipment
  • Test Methods
  • Very Large Scale Integration

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Economics

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics