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Integrating An Oscilloscope Into A General Purpose Automatic Test System, William Charles Bauer

Masters Theses

"The General Purpose Automatic Test System was developed for the Air Force as a system to automatically test and fault isolate an electronic unit under test. The Test System is a building block concept and this paper developed the hardware and programming software necessary to integrate an oscilloscope into the system. A Tektronix Type 564 oscilloscope with a Tektronix Type 3A5 Programmable Amplifier and a Tektronix Type 3B5 Programmable Time Base was used. A prototype of the digital and analog interface between the Test System and the Tektronix System was built and demonstrated. The Oscilloscope Building Block displays waveforms only …