This recommended practice provides Instrument Description templates, compliant with IEEE 1671.2, that providers of synthetic instruments should use to describe waveform generators, digitizers, external local oscillators, and up and down converter. Instrument Description templates, compliant with IEEE Std 1671.2-2012, that providers of synthetic instruments should use to describe waveform generators, digitizers, external local oscillators, and up and down converters are provided in this recommended practice. These synthetic instruments may be integrated in an automatic test system (ATS) that is to be used to test and diagnose a unit under test (UUT).

This recommended practice provides Instrument Description templates, compliant with IEEE 1671.2, that providers of synthetic instruments should use to describe waveform generators, digitizers, external local oscillators, and up and down converter.

The purpose of this recommended practice is to provide the definition of synthetic instruments as well as identify the following requirements for each of the synthetic instruments: a) Input, b) Output. c) Time base, d) Power, e) Physical, f) Communications and control, g) Memory parameter, h) High-speed data port, i) Validation