Teradyne Assembly Test Division’s graphical user interface and programming environment for the XStation X-ray inspection (AXI) systems is an PC/Linux-based applications development framework that significantly reduces generation time and improves the consistency and quality of programs. It can cut generation time by almost 65%. With previous packages, it took endless hours to get a program onto an AXI system. Users had to access many different manuals in order to understand the set-up of algorithms to achieve the highest fault detection. XFrame automates all this work, so an initial program can be developed and ready for debug in one hour, by which it uses CAD-extracted files. The user can search the database for matching device types or add them to the database. Software “wizards” guide the user through the program development. The programs are automatically transferred to the XStation system where the application configuration file is edited. Once an inspection cycle has been run, XFrame retrieves the data, images and/or tags and allows the user to tune/debug the parameters using a machine simulator and graphical editing tool. The user then automatically generates a rules file based on the data from the image. Unlike other AXI environments, XFrame provides flexibility by offering a rule editor which lets the customer set thresholds rather than having thresh-olds hard-coded into the software.
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