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1National Instruments Confidential

Improving Life Cycle Management

for Testing Aerospace and Defense

Electronics

Sean ThompsonPlatform Manager

Aerospace/Defense Applications

[email protected]
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Agenda

Understanding Life Cycles

Improving Life Cycle Management with a Software

Defined Modular Platform


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Definition Development Production &Deployment

Operation &Support

All Systems and Products Have a Life Cycle


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COTS Electronics Have Their Own Life Cycles

EIA-724, Product Life Cycle Data Modelfor microelectronics


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Operation & Support

Sustainment-Dominated Life CycleLong operation and support phases


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Extended Life Cycles

Source: EIA Engineering Bulletin, Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages Management Practices


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Definition DevelopmentProduction &Deployment

Operationand Support

Life Cycle Management Practices

Reactive/Tactical

Alternate source

Substitution

Redefine requirement

Emulation

Lifetime Buy

Redesign

Reverse Engineer

Reclamation

Proactive/Strategic

Modular open architectures

Technology roadmapping

Planned system upgrades

Technology insertion planning

Life cycle analysis and monitoring

Formal lifecycle strategy


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Modular Platform based on COTS

Technologies


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System Software Architecture

Hardware is the most common cause of

obsolescence issues

Changing software to deal with hardware

obsolescence is the biggest source of cost and

disruption

Good software architecture is key to mitigating

obsolescence issues


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Key Investment Areas for NI

System Software Stack

Modular HW platform based on COTS technology

Heterogeneous Computing/Graphical System Design FPGA

Multicore Processors

Long term supportTechnology Investments


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Software Provides the Flexibility forAbstraction or Drill Down as Required

Frost and Sullivan 2006 World Synthetic Instrumentation Test Equipment Report

Software is the core of a [Synthetic Instrumentation] test system, it

is the task of the software to define and control the hardware


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Modular Test Software Technology

Hardware AbstractionIVI

VISA

Test Management Software

TestStand NI Switch Executive

Test Development SoftwareLabVIEW

LabWindows/CVI

Visual Studio .NET & Measurement Studio

Services & DriversNI-DAQ

NI-DMM

NI-SCOPE

NI-FGEN

NI-HSDIO

Other

Combine/Manage

Tests acrossEnvironments

Abstract HW-specific

Implementation

Add Test to HW

Control/Interface


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Modular Architecture TPS Software

NI TestStand API

NI TestStand Engine

Operator

Interface

Sequence

Editor

LabVIEW CVI .NET C/C++ ActiveX HTBasic ATLAS

ATML,

Reports

Databases

Other

VEE,

Java

(ActiveX server)


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ATML Document Schemas

Development

Test

Result

Test

Description

Instrument

Description

Test

Adapter

Test

Station

UUT

DescriptionTest

Configuration


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Enabling High-Performance Automated Test Rugged, modular form factor

High-speed data movement

Timing and synchronization

Optimization for parallel execution

PXI: Hardware platform based on COTS

Multicore ProcessorsPCI Express FPGAs Data Converters

Riding Moores Law


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Traditional Instruments

Expanding Measurement Capabilities

Accura

cy(Bits)

2826

24

22

20

18

16

14

12

10

8

41 10 100 1K 10K 100K 1M 10M 100M 1G 10G 100G

Sampling Rate (S/s)

6

NI Products, 2004NI Products, 1995

NI Products, 2010

NI Products, 2005

NI PXI-4071 7-digit FlexDMM

Industrys fastest, most accurate 7-digit DMM

NI PXI-5922, 24-bit, 15 MS/sIndustrys highest resolution digitizer

PXI-5186, 8-bit, 12.5 MS/s, 5 GHz BW

Industrys highest performance Digitizer

Phase Matrix 26.5 GHz

Signal Analyzer


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FPGAs

Heterogeneous ComputingGraphical System Design

Multicore

Processors

Task Parallelism Data Parallelism Pipelining


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IP to the Pin Technology

Driving user-defined software IP as close to the I/O pins of

reconfigurable (FPGA-based) instruments as possible.

Downloadable FPGA IP :

Control logic

Data transforms

Waveform creation

Digital protocols

Encryption

Math algorithms RF signal processing


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Software Defined Test ExampleDigital Protocol Test

Application

Presentation

Session

Transport

Network

Data Link

Physical


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Data Link

Physical



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NI FlexRIO FPGA Module Virtex-5 FPGA

132 digital I/O lines

Up to 512 MB of DRAM

NI FlexRIO Adapter Module Interchangeable I/O

Analog or Digital

NI FlexRIO Adapter Module

Development Kit (MDK)

Data Link

Physical



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Software Defined Test ExampleSDLC Test System


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Life Cycle Planning Fundamentals

Know the life cycle of your system or product

Know the life cycle of the COTS components youreusing in your tester or embedded system

Leverage open, modular platforms

Good software architecture is key to mitigatingobsolescence issues

Definition DevelopmentProduction &

Deployment

Operation &

Support


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