US 5,349,660 AGranted

Method of improving performance in an automated test system

AssigneeHewlett-Packard Company

InventorsBryan J. Sutula, Jerry D. Metz

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Abstract

Disclosed is a system which compiles instrument commands from a test instrument programming language, along with data in the commands, into a machine usable form. The machine usable instructions thus sent to the instrument are significantly smaller than the original human readable ASCII characters of the source language, and the machine usable form of the commands avoids additional parsing in the instrument. During the compilation process, all parameter data being sent to an instrument is placed into a single data structure, which reduces the number of parameters passed between the test software and any device drivers used to access the instrument.

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Dependent claims

A method for performing programmed test instrument commands in an automated test system, wherein said programmed test instrument commands are combined with language commands of a programming language, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) reading a file containing said programmed test instrument commands and said language commands;
(b) separating said programmed test instrument commands from said language commands;
(c) precompiling said programmed test instrument commands to create a second set of language commands;
(d) combining said language commands and said second set of language commands into a combined set of commands;
and
(e) compiling said combined set of commands into a single executable form;
and
(f) performing said executable form in said automated test system.

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Facts

Application: 07/828,534Filed 24 Jan 1992
Granted: 20 Sep 1994
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G01R 31/31907
Tester configuration: modular tester, e.g. controlling and coordinating instruments in a bus based architecture
G01R 31/31903
Tester hardware, i.e. output processing circuits: tester configuration
G06F 8/41
Transformation of program code: compilation
G06F 2201/865
Indexing scheme relating to error detection, to error correction, and to monitoring: monitoring of software

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