LEVERAGING MODULARITY: FROM MEASUREMENT HARDWARE TO DFT SOFTWARE.

The article discusses the use of Proprietary modular platforms, which give the supplier more flexibility to tailor mechanical and performance characteristics that are specific to open platforms giving the end user flexibility in creating a modular test system. It also mentions the views of Craig Hughes, senior manager, instruments, Astronics Test Systems, on a modular test architecture as an adaptable design that can add or remove functions by hardware and software methods.