CHAPTER 9

Specifying Synthetic Instruments

When an ATE designer is first faced with an ATE problem that they want to fit to some synthetic instrument-based solution, the first step is to capture the requirements for solution. These requirements should specify the synthetic instrumentation from a high level, giving the properties and elements for the synthetic solution.

There are many ways to do this. Engineers have attempted to specify synthetic instruments all sorts of ways, and I personally have seen this process attacked from many different directions. However, so far as I am aware at the date of this writing, there is no standard way to do this. I do know that there are many bad ways.

One quite common bad approach is the following: measurement ...

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