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ATE Systems
News Release from: Schaffner | Subject: PowerStar 5 Test Development Kit
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 03 July 2001
Visual Basic speeds custom PSU test
generation
Users of Schaffner's market-leading power supply ATE systems can now create their own custom test sequences in minutes using the PowerStar 5 Test Development Kit.
Users of Schaffner's market-leading power supply ATE systems can now create their own custom test sequences in minutes using the PowerStar 5 Test Development Kit Available now from Schaffner EMC, the kit takes advantage of PowerStar 5's integrated Visual Basic engine, eliminating the need for external compiling or linking
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 Dec 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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This not only reduces test development time, but produces highly efficient test sequences, which take full advantage of the latest generation of Schaffner ATE hardware, the Intepro 9000 Series.
The PowerStar 5 test environment is a Windows-based integrated software system for ATE control and test development.
With a built-in library of more than 100 standard tests and simple drag and drop program generation, PowerStar 5 allows the development of complete functional test programs in a fraction of the time normally taken to build and debug test routines.
Now the Test Development Kit allows programmers with minimal knowledge of Visual Basic to go beyond the bounds of the standard pre-programmed test library, creating full custom test routines to perfectly fit any manufacturer's desired power supply quality assurance programme.
Tests are easily generated using a test generation wizard.
This guides the programmer through the test generation process, using intuitive test screens and prompting the programmer with step-by-step instructions.
The kit also brings a range of additional features to PowerStar, including ActiveX control and OLE automation.
As a result, a Visual Basic program can call any dll in any language and import it into a test program.
The program can also call any OLE automation server, such as Word, Excel or LabWindows, and take code from such applications to be run within the test.
So, for example, a test program could sample a load current a predefined number of times and export the data to an Excel spreadsheet.
Excel could then calculate the average and/or standard deviation of all the current samples taken, returning the final value(s) back to PowerStar as the test result.
The PowerStar 5 Test Development Kit is available now from Schaffner EMC. Request a free brochure from Schaffner ...
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