TPS verification with UUT simulation

Abstract

TPS's (Test Program Set) verification or first article acceptance test commonly depends on fault insertion experiment on UUT (Unit Under Test). However the failure modes injected on UUT is limited and it is almost infeasible when the UUT is in development or in a distributed state. To resolve this problem, a TPS verification method based on UUT interface signal simulation is putting forward. The interoperability between ATS (automatic test system) and UUT simulation platform is very important to realize automatic TPS verification. After analyzing the ATS software architecture, the approach to realize interpretability between ATS software and UUT simulation platform is proposed. And then the UUT simulation platform software architecture is proposed based on the ATS software architecture. The hardware composition and software architecture of the UUT simulation is described in details. The UUT simulation platform has been implemented in avionics equipment TPS development, debug and verification.