STTE/EF-2000 Typhoon New Generation of Automatic Test Bench (STTEs) For Eurofi ghter's Avionic Units

The STTEs (special to type test equipment) are specific automatic test benches designed to perform HW/SW (hardware/software co-design) integration tasks, acceptance test procedure protocols and validation of production processes of avionic units for the Eurofighter Aircraft Indra Systems, Inc., a Spanish information technologies company, has designed a new generation of low cost STTEs based on the PXI architecture to reduce cost against other modular architectures such as VXL PXI(PCL extensions for Instrumentation.) architecture is an electronic instrumentation platform. This paper outlines the sill design and how Indra has applied its extensive experience in automatic test equipment (ATE) design to this new STTE generation.