Automatic Test Equipment Comes of Age

Standardized modular construction keynotes the development of multipurpose automatic test equipment. This paper first propounds the philosophy behind building block electronic test equipment and outlines the elements of a program to establish a national standard, Second, it describes a set of studies performed for U.S. Army Ordnance by RCA and summarizes the results, and third, describes briefly the actual hardware that has been designed and built on the bases of the study results.