Atec TILE-6 User Manual

Totally Integrated Lab Environment

NEW in TILE! 6
– TILE! Launcher
– Report Generator

FEATURES:

n Automates EMC Testing

– Ready-to-Use Profiles for Testing to
RE, CE and RI, CI Test Regulations
– Design Custom Tests

n Standards Compliant Test Capabilities

n Vendor Compatibility

– 1600+ Drivers Available
– Supports GPIB, Ethernet, USB and
Serial Instrument Communications

– Simulator

EMC Software

TILE!

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n Used in Corporate, Commercial, and

Government Test Laboratories

TILE! (Total Integrated Lab Environ­ment) Software is an integrated

test environment for creating and
performing Electromagnetic Com­patibility (EMC) Tests. TILE!’s
unique visual interface offers the
necessary environment to create

test proles, eliminating the need

for additional programming. Test

Proles are created in a Microsoft

Windows environment with drag
and drop simplicity.

TILE! is hardware independent
with driver support for most EMC

instrumentation available today,

with options to add drivers for new
instruments in the future.

TILE! is designed to perform EMC
measurements in any test environ-

ment, from an OATS, semi- or fully

anechoic chambers, reverberation
chambers, GTEMs or any suitable

test enclosure.

DESCRIPTION

An EMC test is performed by a
series of steps executed in a specic

sequence. TILE! represents each
step in the test sequence as an icon

on a screen, with the test sequence
resembling a owchart. In TILE!,

icons are called “actions” and are
grouped in six categories: Emis-

sions, Immunity, Information,
Utility, GTEM, and Miscellaneous.

Right-clicking on an icon opens
a dialog box for customizing the
settings of that particular action.

For example, the icon for Measure

Range opens a dialog box with tabs

for Frequency, Amplitude, Data, etc.

Values related to the test can then

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be specied for the settings within

each tab. Each of these steps have
been created in TILE! and a test
sequence can be generated by link­ing necessary steps for testing to a

specic test regulation or to a user
test specication. These test se-

quences can be stored as ready-to-

use tests or “test proles”. TILE!
is offered with a library of proles

designed for testing to international
test regulations for radiated emis-

sions and immunity (RE, RI) and

conducted emissions and immunity

(CE, CI). These proles produce

measurements in compliance with

test standards by the IEC, FCC,
SAE and others.

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Please contact ETS-Lindgren for further information.

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EMC Software

TILE! 6

Totally Integrated Lab Environment

FEATURES

The real power and exibility of

TILE! is the ability to create custom

test proles, using the Flow Chart

window of the application.

TILE! Test environment offers four
other windows in addition to Flow
Chart window.
– The Data window accessed
the information being tracked

in a prole.

– The Instrument window
accesses the instrumentation

that will be used in the prole.

– The Log window displays the
history of commands sent to the
instrumentation.

– The Audit Trail window dis-
plays the settings history for

each icon on the owchart.

TILE! offers the ability to create as
many graphs and tables as needed.
Parameters for the graphs and tables

are dened by the user (titles, legends,
xy values, ranges, column widths,
decimal accuracy, etc.) and are

updated and displayed in real-time as
the data is collected during the test.

Graphs can be exported as Windows
metales (.wmf), and tables can be
exported as comma-separated les

(.csv) for use in tools like Microsoft
Excel® to generate test reports. Both
graphs and tables can also be copied
to the clipboard for pasting into a
Microsoft Word® document.

TILE! 6 FEATURES:

TILE Launcher

This easy-to-use wrapper now pro-

vides the interface to the software,

which enables administrative-level
users to easily run tests (written by
the more experienced users) with the
ease of point-n-click menus. This
allows engineering resources to focus
on more complicated tasks.

Report Generator

The new report generator has expand-

ed capabilities, including a fully cus­tomizable, predened MS Word docu­ment template with test data, tables,

and both graphics and photographs of
the test set-up. Reports produced are
customer-ready within seconds.

Simulator

As an exclusive benet to users under
current TILE! Maintenance Support,

TILE! 6 features an integrated simula­tor. This powerful new tool enables

users to utilize an innite number of
testing environments, without leaving

their desk. It also provides a simulated

environment, reecting how each of

the selected instruments will interact
together. This simulator can also
free up chamber time by allowing for

activities such as prole development,
training, customer demos & sales and

validation testing to be done virtually.

APPLICATIONS

n Testing to International EMC

Test Regulations

– Radiated Immunity
– Conducted Immunity
– Radiated Emissions
– Conducted Emissions

n For use in Different Testing

Environments:
– OATS
– Semi & Full Anechoic Chambers
– Reverberation Chambers
– GTEMs
– Shielded Enclosures

n Custom Test Prole Creation With-

out the Need for Programming

CONFIGURATIONS

n TILE!

n TILE! for GTEM

OPTIONS

n Additional Product Licensing

n Annual TILE! Maintenance

Support Contract

n Product Training

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