Real-time testing involves the use of a real-time environment to implement a test application. Engineers use real-time testing techniques primarily to achieve greater reliability and/or determinism in a test system. These techniques also play a critical role in the development of many of today’s products and systems. Examples include durability, life-cycle, and other test systems that operate for long durations or with extended operator absence requiring the superior reliability provided by real-time execution platforms, as well as environmental test cells, dynamometers, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulators, and similar test systems that use closed-loop control execution, which requires the low-jitter determinism of real-time execution platforms.
In this article, we examine several real-time testing applications and discuss how they are evolving to meet challenges that test engineers face.
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