Modular electronic instrument system having automated calibration capability
First Claim
1. A modular electronic instrument calibration system, comprising:
- an instrument to be calibrated having associated therewith a characteristics file including calibration information;
one or more calibration instruments connectable to said instrument to be calibrated, each of said calibration instruments having associated therewith a characteristics file including resource capability information; and
control means for automatically deriving requirements for calibration from said calibration information, and matching said requirements with said resource capability information.
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Abstract
A modular electronic instrument system having automated calibration capability comprises a system controller and a plurality of calibration instruments for calibrating a target instrument. The instruments, if remotely controllable, may be interconnected by a common interface bus. The calibration instruments have associated therewith a characteristics file including resource capability information, and an instrument to be calibrated has associated therewith a characteristics file including calibration information. The system controller automatically derives calibration requirements from the calibration information and matches the requirements with resource capabilities of the calibration instruments. All of the characteristics files may be provided in a standardized format so that a system may be configured without regard to instrument-specific model numbers or manufacturers.
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1. A modular electronic instrument calibration system, comprising:
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an instrument to be calibrated having associated therewith a characteristics file including calibration information; one or more calibration instruments connectable to said instrument to be calibrated, each of said calibration instruments having associated therewith a characteristics file including resource capability information; and control means for automatically deriving requirements for calibration from said calibration information, and matching said requirements with said resource capability information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An automated calibration system for calibrating a target instrument, said calibration system comprising:
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one or more calibration instruments connectable to said target instrument; means for providing calibration requirements of said target instrument in standardized format; means for providing resource capabilities of said calibration instruments in standardized format; and means for matching said requirements with said resource capabilities and generating therefrom calibration steps. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. In an automated test system having at least one instrument and a computer controller therefor, the computer controller accessing a characteristics file describing functions and properties of the instrument for generating test instructions therefor, the improvement comprising:
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a calibration file describing calibration information for the instrument; at least one calibration instrument connected to said computer controller, a calibration instrument file describing characteristics of each calibration instrument, said computer controller accessing said calibration file to determine a calibration procedure for the instrument and accessing said calibration instrument file to identify at least one calibration instrument for use in said calibration procedure. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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