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Uriah
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I have been wanting a particular test system from a company called ABI
Electronics in the UK (WWW.ABIELECTRONIC.CO.UK) They have a test rig
called the system 8000 and it does just about everything you would
need for a test bench. The only problem is it cost 50K and at this
point it is just a fantasy. It can test analog and digital IC's in
circuit and out. Along with all of the other components. It has a
built in triple output power supply and a scope, DVM, counter, curve
tracer, etc. It has tons of features but the one I really like, and
am hoping someone has seen something similar and can point me to it is
their test builder software. Say you want to test a pcb that comes
out of a bowling alley pin setting machine. With the test builder you
can setup the AC/DC power requirements and setup inputs and outputs to
trigger things and also to view the outputs on the computer. If you
need to add a DVM or two or a frequency counter to view some voltages
it is all built into the system 8000 and you can put them all together
with the software and see the status on the computer so that the board
is thoroughly exercised so that you can trouble shoot it and be sure
that it is working. Then you save it and if you ever have to come
back to that pcb you just need to bring up the saved program and wire
a few things up and then you can run it through all of the tests you
set up. I sure this is confusing but I hope you get the jest of what
I am looking for . Has anyone seen a software program that will let
you control the equipment I have on my bench either through serial
ports or GPIB and you can build a test routine for different things?
I know there is labView but I was hoping for something a little more
ready to go. LabView takes awhile to learn and setup. Is there
anything else out there someone might have some experience with that
they can recommend? Thanks for taking the time to read this long
post.
Thanks
Russ
Electronics in the UK (WWW.ABIELECTRONIC.CO.UK) They have a test rig
called the system 8000 and it does just about everything you would
need for a test bench. The only problem is it cost 50K and at this
point it is just a fantasy. It can test analog and digital IC's in
circuit and out. Along with all of the other components. It has a
built in triple output power supply and a scope, DVM, counter, curve
tracer, etc. It has tons of features but the one I really like, and
am hoping someone has seen something similar and can point me to it is
their test builder software. Say you want to test a pcb that comes
out of a bowling alley pin setting machine. With the test builder you
can setup the AC/DC power requirements and setup inputs and outputs to
trigger things and also to view the outputs on the computer. If you
need to add a DVM or two or a frequency counter to view some voltages
it is all built into the system 8000 and you can put them all together
with the software and see the status on the computer so that the board
is thoroughly exercised so that you can trouble shoot it and be sure
that it is working. Then you save it and if you ever have to come
back to that pcb you just need to bring up the saved program and wire
a few things up and then you can run it through all of the tests you
set up. I sure this is confusing but I hope you get the jest of what
I am looking for . Has anyone seen a software program that will let
you control the equipment I have on my bench either through serial
ports or GPIB and you can build a test routine for different things?
I know there is labView but I was hoping for something a little more
ready to go. LabView takes awhile to learn and setup. Is there
anything else out there someone might have some experience with that
they can recommend? Thanks for taking the time to read this long
post.
Thanks
Russ