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Test Program Sets

EADS North America Defense Test & Services has extensive experience in the design, development, production and long term support of Test Program Sets (TPS). The company provides TPSs for both its own ATE systems and those originally provided by third parties.

Test Program Sets may be designed to test a Unit Under Test (UUT) in a number of different support environments including; Production, Field, or Maintenance Depot Level on the designated test equipment. Test Program Sets include hardware, software and documentation items to customize an ATE system to the specific test requirements of the UUT. Formulating test strategies to meet the development, production, operating and maintenance scenarios. Test Program components include:

Typical Test Program Set

  • Test Software

EADS North America Defense Test & Services designs test program software to suit the target ATE platform. We can provide test programs written in all industry standard test languages as required by the customer. The company uses modern test software design tools, which provide seamless development environments between test requirement definition, test program code generation, on-line help generation and long term support. Test programs can be developed in formats suitable for hosting on multiple ATE platforms and offering protection against future obsolescence of ATE platforms.

EADS North America Defense Test & Services uses advanced test technologies in both its hardware and software architectures to prevent instrument changes within a system from impacting on the TPS. Our approach covers both existing ATE systems and new designed ATEs using tools such as isolATEand GENIE.

  • Interfaces and Fixturing

    EADS North America Defense Test & Services designs test interfacing and fixtures to interface the UUT to the designated test system. Most modern ATE systems utilize Interface Test Adapters (ITA) to customize the general purpose ATE interface into the specific interface required by the UUT or groups of UUTs.

Interface Jig

EADS North America Defense Test & Services has many years of experience designing and building ITAs. ITAs are built using industry standard Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components (where possible) to maximize reliability and supportability. The goal is to develop an ITA that is simple and has no active components. We will minimize the use of active components, when they are necessary.

Interface Jig Construction
  • Special Instrumentation

    EADS North America Defense Test & Services integrates the TPS into the test system. A test system may be general purpose in nature with a defined interface performance and parametric envelope. In cases where the resources within the general purpose test system are not sufficient to meet the test requirements of a particular UUT, we can design special test instruments and resources which supplement the ATE resources.

Special Instrumentation
  • Self Test & Alignment

    EADS North America Defense Test & Services provides self test and alignment procedures for both ATE Systems and TPSs. Self Test usually will consist of a wrap-around or loop-back test that checks the correct output/input levels of instrumentation and all switching paths. Self Test enhances the Built-In-Test (BIT) capability of the ATE's instrumentation.