Internal automation lets you:

• Perform compliance tests – Compliance tests are nothing more than simple arrangements of primitive tests where the test limits have been determined by a committee of "experts". ASA has created a suite of compliance tests for various published standards, and they are all available at no cost for users of M1 Waveform Tools, as compared to ScopeCo customers who pay $4k-$40k for each compliance test.
• Speed up repetitive work – Many customers don't have compliance test needs and simply use the internal test automation capability to speed up very repetitive tasks. One of our customers measured a 45x speedup in their characterization work by moving to M1.
• Automate measurement workflow – Some companies view their measurement workflow as an element of competitive advantage, and go so far as to try to create their own proprietary analysis tools. The problem with this is that customer engineers can't begin to bring the breadth of experience and measurement-technical know-how to the table that ASA can provide. You can implement your measurement workflow in a TestScript and be guaranteed that the workflow will be followed.

Our automation approach provides:

• Unlimited scaling at an extremely low cost using M1 Reader
• Versatile configuration: high-throughput and low-cost configurations are equally supported
• Enterprise-wide measurement data-sharing and re-use
• Platform-insensitivity – M1 serves as a sophisticated hardware abstraction layer, eliminating manufacturer dependencies and other barriers to rapid, organization-wide deployment and extension.
• Simplified Integration – With a single command from the automation control, M1 can execute multiple, sophisticated test scripts and return the results.
• Common analysis engine, automation language, and UI – Using M1 eliminates at least 45 ScopeCo software titles and dozens of complicated interdependencies between titles. This reduces training requirements, and provides a common testing culture throughout you organization.

• DLL Framework – By filling in "the math" in an ASA-provided DLL framework, an M1 user can add new measurements as well as easily and instantly share them with other M1 users. ASA can provide sample framework code in either C++ or C#.
• MATLAB – By entering an algebraic-like description of the desired new measurement via MATLAB, an M1 user can add new measurements. This is the lower-performance choice of the two approaches, but for some users, more convenient given the intuitive interface of MATLAB. M1 allows up to 42 predefined inputs (waveforms, time tag lists, result lists from other measurements, etc.) as well as an unlimited number of user-defined variables. M1 includes MATLAB at no additional charge, which is a savings to the customer of $1-2K per scope.