To facilitate efficient, cost-effective development of in-orbit test (IOT) measurements and turnkey systems, microwave measurement system (MMS) software built on an engineered platform of reusable software services and facilities has been developed over the past several years and deployed in operational systems. The Measurement Processing and Control Platform (MPCP) provides modular software components that have been developed and tested for measurement scheduling, interprocess communications, and resource and system information sharing. Its code libraries support graphically based user interfaces, instrument control, instrument bus management, and error detection and reporting; and its data processing subsystems support database management, report generation, and interactive data analysis. Operating in a network environment under a UNIX System V operating system, this multiuser, multitasking MMS software supports both local and wide-area networking, including remote access and control of the IOT measurement equipment. It executes in a distributed processing system architecture spanning a number of dissimilar workstations. With interprocess/intermachine communications provided by the MPCP mail system, the separate user interface and measurement programs can execute on different machines at different times, for improved operational flexibility. The paper describes the design and implementation of the MMS software. The concepts and methods presented are also applicable to other measurement-oriented systems (such as those used for communications system monitoring), where escalating software costs must be controlled.
Microwave measurement system software
Software für Mikrowellenmeßsysteme
Comsat Technical Review ; 23 , 1 ; 101-137
1993
37 Seiten, 10 Quellen
Article (Journal)
English
Rechnernetz , rechnerunterstützte Instrumentierung , Messen , Mikrowellentechnik , Fehlererkennung , Datenbank , Workstation , Systemarchitektur , Software , Programmbibliothek , Benutzerschnittstelle , UNIX (Betriebssystem) , Teilnehmerbetrieb , Raumfahrt , graphische Benutzeroberfläche , Mikrowellenmessung , Netzwerkbetriebssystem
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