TILE!™ - Totally Integrated Laboratory Environment System

Key Features

• Automates EMC Testing
  -- Ready-to-Use Profiles for Testing to RE, CE and RI, CI Test Regulations
  -- Design Custom Tests
• Standards Compliant Test Methods
• Vendor Compatible
  -- 1600+ Drivers Available
  -- Supports GPIB, Ethernet, USB and Serial Instrument Communications
• Used in Corporate Test Facilities and in Commercial Test Labs
• Windows 7 Compatible

Description

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 profiles, eliminating the need for additional programming. Test Profiles 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 environment, 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 specific sequence. TILE! represents each step in the test sequence as an icon on a screen, with the test sequence resembling a flowchart. In TILE!, icons are called “actions” and are grouped in six categories: Emissions, 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 be specified 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 specific test regulation or to a user test specification. These test sequences can be stored as ready-touse tests or “test profiles”. TILE! is offered with a library of profiles designed for testing to international test regulations for radiated emissions and immunity (RE, RI) and conducted emissions and immunity (CE, CI). These profiles produce measurements in compliance with test standards by the IEC, FCC, SAE and others.

FEATURES

The real power and flexibility of TILE! is the ability to create custom test profiles. Test profiles are created in 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 profile.
• The Instrument window accesses the instrumentation that will be used in the profile.
• The Log window displays the history of commands sent to the instrumentation.
• The Audit Trail window displays the settings history for each icon on the flowchart.

TILE! offers the ability to create as many graphs and tables as needed. Parameters for the graphs and tables are defined by the user (titles, legends, xy values, ranges, column widths, decimal accuracy, etc.) and are updated and displayed in realtime as the data is collected during the test. Graphs can be exported as Windows metafiles (.wmf), and tables can be exported as commaseparated files (.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 provides 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 Report Generator The new report generator has expanded capabilities, including a fully customizable, predefined 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 benefit to users under current TILE! Maintenance Support, TILE! 6 features an integrated simulator. This powerful new tool enables users to utilize an infinite number of testing environments, without leaving their desk. It also provides a simulated environment, reflecting how each of the selected instruments will interact together. This simulator can also free up chamber time by allowing for activities such as profile development, training, customer demos & sales and validation testing to be done virtually.

APPLICATIONS

• Testing to International EMC Test Regulations
  • Radiated Immunity
  • Conducted Immunity
  • Radiated Emissions
  • Conducted Emissions
• For use in Different Test Environments:
  • OATS
  • Semi- & Full Anechoic Chambers
  • Reverberation Chambers
  • GTEMs
  • Enclosures
• Custom Test Profile Creation Without the Need for Programming