Automated Test System for Test and Evaluation of C-Band Receiver Packages for GEOSAT Spacecrafts

This paper aims to develop an Automated Test System for the Test and Evaluation of C-Band Receiver Packages for GEOSAT Spacecrafts. Automated testing is the best way to increase the efficiency, coverage, quality and accuracy of the Test and Evaluation of Device under Test (DUT). Once automated tests are created they can easily be repeated and can be extended to perform tasks impossible with manual testing. Automated testing optimizes time and saves money. The importance of ATS has always been closely linked to the performance of the instrument interface architecture used in the system. GPIB (general purpose interface bus) is one such instrument interface standard that offers many benefits for establishing communicating between different measuring and analyzing instruments used in an ATS. This paper describes the details of hardware selection and software implementation for the realization of ATS for C-BAND RECEIVER.