Motorola has various groups that use Tcl for automated testing, among other things. I work in SDC [http://www.motorola.com/cgiss/] and maintain an automated test tool based on Tcl for our group.

(I seem to remember there being a page on Motorola before, but it's gone. I suppose I should expand and update this.)

[sheila] 2003/07/08


Searching for motorola delivers two entries, but both pointing to this page. It could be that the page titles differed in the use of psaces and are now collapsed into one ...

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Motorola has hundreds, or likely thousands, of Tcl coders.
All (?!) Motorola semiconductor fabrication facilities are
...
individual workstations ...
GEM ...
recipes coded in Tcl.

Motorola generally takes the position that there's no
advantage to it in confirming any of its reliance on
Tcl.

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I can speak for myself.

I work at Motorola in the Secure Design Center maintaining
and developing an automated test tool, written in tcl/tk,
which is used during box testing of our hardware encryption modules.

Our test tool incorporates dlls which support des and aes
algorithms as well as dlls that allow us to access hardware
interfaces not supported by Tcl. The test tool includes things
like generators/parsers for standards that our products have to
meet, etc.

We have a gui for selecting tests for test runs, setting up test
invariants and covariants, etc.

This test platform is also used in the factory for our products.

We also used a modified version of this test platform as an encryption
server. The server has a dll that communicates with hardware devices
supporting various algorithms, and clients can connect with encryption requests.

         +-----------+                     +---------+
         |  Tcl Test |     physical layer  |device   |
         |            ====data, commands=== under    |
         | Platform  | sent via rs232, NIC,|test     |
         +-----------+ etc.                +---------+

I don't have metrics to show the impact of using the test tool, but I can
try to dig some up and post them here if possible.

[sheila]
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