brassboard

plural brassboards · alternative brass board

1. An experimental or demonstration test model, intended for field testing outside the laboratory environment.

   DOD hopes during this part of Phase 1 to develop a sufficient number of integrated system brassboards.

   1981 January, “Sumney on VHSIC”, in Defense Electronics, volume 13, number 1, page 50

   2 more examples

   From the outset, the Army was interested in five of the six basic functional brassboards to be provided by the program.

   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

   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.

   1993, Norman B. Reilly, “Trade-off Analysis”, in Successful Systems Engineering for Engineers and Managers, Van Nostrand Reinhold; Chapman & Hall, →ISBN, page 161