Debugging Tests Using Hardware Response Emulator - Agilent Technologies 93000 SOC Series Training Manual

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Overview of Emulator
Debugging Tests using Hardware
Response Emulator
This section is just an introduction of a powerful debugging tool,
the Hardware Response Emulator (Emulator). For details of this
tool, see the Test Method Programming Reference manual after
this lesson.
When you execute a testflow or testsuite(s) offline for debugging,
you may have the following two problems:
Random and insignificant data will be returned to the test method
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APIs.
You cannot control the pass/fail results of each testsuite easily.
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The SmarTest provides the tool, Hardware Response Emulator
(Emulator), to resolve the above problems. The Emulator runs in
the background of the test execution and returns already prepared
data such as analog waveform data, measurement values, pass/fail
result, and so on at appropriate points in the test as shown in the
following figure
In particular, this helps to debug your test method program that
performs calculation using the actual measurement data such as
waveform data captured by digitizers. This also helps to check the
execution flow of the testflow easily by setting the pass/fail state
for each testsuite.
Further, you can enable or disable the Emulator easily without
changing your method program and testflow. This means you can
easily start online debug soon after the end of offline debug, and
you can easily return to offline debug.
Testsuite
Offline Mode:
(Test Method Program)
Test Execution
Not Access
Emulator
(Import mode)
Offline Debugging using Emulator
Lesson 2 – Creating a Test Method
API for retrieving
hardware response
Return hardware
response data
File File
Judge pass/fail
of testsuite
Return test result
data (pass/fail)
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