METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TESTING SENSOR SIGNAL PROCESSOR

摘要

Testing and protection apparatus for a signal processor which applies during testing a test signal obtained by applying to a reference ramp signal a certain dynamic compensation having a transfer function equal to the inverse of the transfer function of the signal processor. This test signal which is applied in place of the sensor signal should match the reference signal. When the response to the test signal is multiplexed back to the tester along with response signals from microcomputers, variable time skewing of the returned test signal is eliminated by feeding the reference signal through a processing path parallel to that of the test signal and then comparing those two signals in the tester. The reference signal is also used in the microcomputer to continually generate a dummy actuation signal which provides a continuous check on microcomputer operation.