Patent ID: 6918061
Filing Date: 2005-07-12
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. An element for carrying out and documenting a program or test sequence, wherein: the element is configured to perform a particular function for carrying out said program or test sequence, wherein, said particular function comprises at least one function selected from the group consisting of mathematical or logic operations, time detection or analysis, comparisons, signal analyses, signal range detection, threshold detection, maximum, minimum, mean or final value detection and sequence monitoring and control; the element has at least one control input to which an external control signal can be supplied; a variable in the element can be varied as a function of the external control signal; and a process for carrying out said particular function can be varied by the element in response to a value of said variable, in such a manner that, when the variable has one value and the external control signal is at a first signal level, the variable assumes a specific value which differs from said one value; and when the variable is at that specific value and an external control signal which is at the first signal level is once again applied, that the variable remains at that specific value.