New generation of automatic test bench (STTES) for eurofighter typhoon's avionic units

The STTEs (Special to Type Test Equipment) are specific automatic test benches designed to perform HW/SW integration tasks, acceptance test procedure protocols and validation of production processes of avionic units for the Eurofighter Aircraft. Indra has designed a new generation of low cost STTEs based on the PXI architecture to reduce cost against other modular architectures such as VXI. The paper outlines the STTE design and how Indra has applied its extensive know-how in Automatic Test Equipment design to this new STTE generation.