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Deployed Test

Features/Benefits Summary

Two Deployed Test  
software components 
offered  (BIT and BCS)

Each tailored for a different test-phase/strategy. Use of both provides the best possible overall Deployed Test strategy, adapted for 
the realities of merchant silicon and the use of a standard COTS operating system (OS).

Completely OS-independent.

Intrusive testing provides the highest possible coverage and confidence.

Ensures no intrusive testing can possibly disturb the OS or application.

Functionally verifiable, using the ‘stuck nodes’ method with statistically valid sample sizes for fault injection.

Additional to the ‘Internal Node’ tests that are fully onboard the single board computer (SBC). Allows the use of standard BIT for accep-
tance test procedures (ATP), as well as deployment. No separate ATP software needs to be commissioned.  Also, some ‘edge node’ tests 
can usually be enabled in deployment, increasing the overall system test coverage. Standardized responses are verified wherever 
possible (e.g. normal response to an initiated Ethernet ‘ping’).

Standard BIT product can be used in almost all circumstances, without recourse to source code, or invoking development time. 

Configure and forget, or use for first stage field diagnosis.

Can balance the best depth of coverage for the required maximum execution time, giving a best fit to the application circumstances.

‘Best coverage in one second’ option.

Bypasses all tests in an emergency start-up condition (e.g. an in-air brown-out). Fast Start situation sampled from the backplane.

For easy integration, BIT can store results in nominated Flash, RAM, or bus memory locations, for later pick-up by the application.

Via an SBC LED: also a backplane output for system notification.

Minimizes integration. BIT tests and collates results for all GE Intelligent Platform boards/daughter boards connected in the system.

Later GE Intelligent Platform BIT versions that run a wider range of hardware can be field-installed on older boards, providing unit 
compatibility or cross-program commonality.

Custom tests (e.g. for proprietary PMCs) easily added using a standard template. No purchase of BIT source code is required for this purpose.