Automatic Test Equipment For DBF
The Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) developed for Digital Beam Former (DBF) is capable of simulating a complete real-time external environment for DBF. The Digital Beam Former is an indigenisation project where CoreEL has pioneered the beam forming in the digital domain using FPGAs. It was delivered as a turnkey solution.
The ATE emulates peripherals of DBF system, behaves as receivers which provide data to DBF system for beam computation; and as signal processor which receives the computed beam from DBF. The ATE is architected to emulate multiple receivers. The current ATE is implemented across multiple cards and FPGAs, and can be easily scaled to emulate 1 to 60 receiver groups or more.
Key Features
- FPGA based modular and generic ATE
- Possible to test DBF completely in absence of other subsystems
- Real-time testing
- Simulation of runtime scenarios; diagnose performance
- Testing against a comprehensive verification plan
- ATE is also capable of testing other subsystems in DBF