brassboard
English
Alternative forms
- brass board
Noun
brassboard (plural brassboards)
- An experimental or demonstration test model, intended for field testing outside the laboratory environment.
- 1981 January, “Sumney on VHSIC”, in Defense Electronics, volume 13, number 1, page 50:
- DOD hopes during this part of Phase 1 to develop a sufficient number of integrated system brassboards.
- 1984 November–December, H. Steven Kimmel, “Very High Speed Integrated Circuits for Army Systems”, in Army Research, Development & Acquisition Magazine, volume 25, number 6, page 11:
- From the outset, the Army was interested in five of the six basic functional brassboards to be provided by the program.
- 1993, Norman B. Reilly, “Trade-off Analysis”, in Successful Systems Engineering for Engineers and Managers, Van Nostrand Reinhold; Chapman & Hall, →ISBN, page 161:
- Brassboards generally represent a more serious attempt to mimic the behavior of the final product, particularly in terms of component placing, connector lengths, and packaging. Portions of brassboards that involve high-risk areas may be constructed as near replicas of the envisioned final product and may be of sufficient integrity to undergo considerable testing.
-
Further reading
Brassboard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia