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December 2008
NEWSLETTER
Geotest-MTS would like to wish you and your
family a holiday season filled with joy and
peace, and a happy and prosperous new
year. This issue of the Geotest newsletter
includes industry news, new product updates,
military news, and information about
upcoming events where you can find Geotest.
If you have comments about this newsletter
or would like to share your application or
success stories, please contact Geotest at
editor@geotestinc.com.
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Geotest has introduced the latest version of ATEasy
– a complete application development framework for
functional test, automated test equipment (ATE),
data acquisition, process control, and
instrumentation systems. In the November issue of
NASA Tech Briefs (NTB), ATEasy 7.0 was awarded
"Product of the Month", which also qualifies ATEasy
as a finalist for NTB's "Product of the Year" award. |
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ATEasy 7.0, the most
comprehensive test executive and test development
suite on the market, provides the tools to develop,
deploy, and maintain software components including
instrument drivers, test programs, user interfaces,
and a customizable test executive.
Click here to read the NASA Tech Brief's article |
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electronics industry's never-ending appetite
for speed and performance, the bandwidth
advantages of PXI Express (PXIe) are
becoming increasingly important for test
applications. To take full advantage of the
capabilities offered by PXI Express, you'll
need a chassis designed to handle PXIe
cards.
Click here to read full article |
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Geotest announced last
month that it has joined the Semiconductor Test
Consortium (STC), the semiconductor industry's
leading proponent for the development and adoption
of value-added open test standards. As a member,
Geotest is an active participant on the Portable
Test Instrument Module (PTIM) Working Group, which
is part of the Semiconductor Test Interface
eXtensions (STIXTM) initiative.
Click here to read full press release
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Geotest has a new
website. Our team has been talking to customers
to ensure our website meets your needs and demands.
The new design provides improved usability and
accessibility, and offers the following
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Faster
search results |
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Product centric
design |
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Information can be
filtered by product architectures (PXI, ISA, PCI,
etc.) |
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Online product
purchasing capabilities (coming soon) |
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A Geotest user
forums website has been created which gives
Geotest users the opportunity to share
information and knowledge about Geotest
products. At the Geotest forums, users can
share information about projects, ATEasy
instrument drivers, Geotest products and
applications. Currently five forums are
available: Two for ATEasy (Drivers and
General topics), a forum for Digital IO
products, a forum for System Products and
one for all other Geotest products. |
The ATEasy
drivers forum allows users to share their
ATEasy instrument drivers while the other
forum can be used to share examples and
general questions or information about
ATEasy. To further personalize the
experience, users can upload their own icons
(avatars). Geotest hopes that the Geotest
user forums will have many participants and
posts. The Geotest forums can be found at
http://www.geotestinc.com/Forums/.
Click here to visit the Geotest forums page. |
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| The TS-375 test system is a
preconfigured test system designed specifically to
address both the military and commercial avionics
test markets for depot and MRO facilities. Based on
Geotest’s GX7102 PXI platform, GBATS offers test
engineers a compact, 3U / 6U system with a variety
of options for supporting analog, digital, and
mixed-signal test applications as well as ARINC429
and MIL-STD 1553 interfaces. |
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The system comes
preconfigured with a high pin count, mass
termination interface – making the system ideal for
supporting a variety of products including card
level and box level products such as LRUs and SRUs,
sub-system assemblies, and system level assemblies.
And like all other Geotest systems, the GBATS is
available with ATEasy – providing users an
integrated and complete test executive and test
development environment.
Click here for more information about the TS-375 |
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ATEasy version 7.0
contains numerous enhancements to the Test
Development, Run-Time and Test Executive
environments. With new options and capabilities for
creating and executing test programs, ATEasy
continues to offer users the most feature rich and
cost effective software platform in the industry.
Some of ATEasy 7.0’s new features include:
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Ability to create
libraries (DLLs) which can be used by external
languages or by ATEasy drivers |
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Test Executive support for external
test executable programs |
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Support for ATML test results and
test descriptions |
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USB interface support |
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Batch build capability |
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Enhanced usability
including Back, Forward, history navigation and Auto
recover features |
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.MHT file support |
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| Be sure to checkout
Geotest's new online video
"Introduction to ATEasy". |
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| Geotest recently
released a new version of its analog waveform
development software. Designed to interactively edit
and create analog waveforms, WaveEasy provides the
user with more than 40 functions and operators for
creating waveforms. With WaveEasy the user can use a
combination of mathematical functions and free-form
drawing tools to create periodic or complex
waveforms, providing a powerful waveform development
and editing environment for analog and mixed-signal
applications. And with the latest version, WaveEasy
now also offers waveform analysis capabilities
including FFT and FIR functions.
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WaveEasy
software provides users with more than 40
functions and operators for creating
waveforms. |
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seamless integration with Geotest's GX1110 arbitrary
waveform generator or other third-party waveform
generators. A variety of application development
environments are supported by WaveEasy including
ATEasy, LabVIEW, LabWindows / CVI, and Microsoft
Visual Studio. Checkout the latest version of
WaveEasy on the
WaveEasy product page. |
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recently released updated software for
Geotests’s digital instrument products. The
GTDIO/ DIOEasy v3.2 build #42 offers updates
and support for the GX5055, Gx5291, GX529x
and GX528x products |
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the key features supported by this update
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Enhanced clock offset
feature for precise time alignment of all
digital channels when using multiple boards
within a single domain. |
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Enhanced memory load /
unload performance |
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HW 3.2 software support for
the VISA interface |
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Updated users guide |
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New .NET, VB 6.0, and
LabVIEW examples |
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GTDIO/DIOEasy v3.2 software can be
downloaded
here. |
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The UK military is purchasing a quantity of
AN/TSM-205s, an ultra-rugged portable
flight-line test set for Longbow platforms
such as the British WAH-64 Apache. The
AN/TSM-205 and AN/TSM-205As have been
successfully deployed worldwide since 1996
and are still in production. Based on COTS
PC equipment, these testers have been
successfully used in the harshest of
environments and have demonstrated very high
reliability and performance. The Royal
British Army has been using the AN/TSM-205A
test sets for several years and is now
procuring additional test sets to meet
operational requirements. |
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| An FMS customer
has purchased five additional PXI-based
Maverick field testers. The MTS-206 test set
is an ultra-rugged portable flight-line
tester for the Maverick missile system. This
PXI based test set tests all parts of the
Maverick missile system including missiles,
launchers, and subassemblies such as the GCS
and CAS. First deployed in 2004, the
state-of-the-art MTS-206 is already
operational in 12 countries. The MTS-206 is
proof that COTS PXI products can be used in
harsh environments and operate with very
high reliability. As a commercial
alternative and based on the MTS-206 design,
Geotest offers the MTS-207 tester, which
meets the same environmental specs and
design standards as the MTS-206 and can be
used in any operational theater. |
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received a contract to provide duplicate PXI-based
testers for the Longbow Hellfire program and
will be used for production of launchers.
The TS-201 and ETS-202 are production
testers for the Longbow launcher and have
been in use for several years. The TS-201 is
PC-based system while the newer ETS-202 is
PXI-based. Geotest has received a contract
to upgrade the TS-201 to a PXI configuration
and produce one more TS-201 and one more
ETS-202 in support of the Longbow launcher
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In Europe last month,
Geotest and JTAG Technologies conducted a series of
free seminars and workshops about the most recent
advances in boundary-scan (JTAG) technology and
functional test. The series was so successful that
Geotest has decided to bring the seminar to the
American market.
The seminar focuses on strategies that will lower
your costs of design, test, and support by combining
boundary-scan and functional test methodologies. The
seminar includes an overview of boundary scan and
digital functional test methods and also features a
demonstration of how you can combine boundary scan
and digital test tools. If you are interested in
more information on this seminar or would like to
request a seminar in your area, please call
888.837.8297.
The functional test / JTAG seminar is
scheduled for the following date and location:
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Tuesday, January 27th
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8:30 AM - 1:00 EST |
Burlington
Marriott, MA
One Burlington Mall Road
Burlington, MA 01803
781.229.6565 |
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Geotest will be offering a webinar –
Introduction to ATEasy in January, February,
and March. If you are not familiar with
ATEasy, this is the perfect opportunity to
see a live demo of ATEasy, presented by one
of our applications engineers.
Sign up for a webinar now at: |
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Attended
by more than 750 avionics maintenance experts from
around the world, the annual AMC conference
identifies technical solutions to maintenance issues
resulting in immediate and long-term maintenance
improvements and cost savings for the commercial
airline industry. The show will be taking place at
the Minneapolis Hyatt Regency, March 30, 2009 to
April 02, 2009.
For more information visit the
show website. |
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Visit the
for updates on upcoming workshops and events
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