Debugging on the Hardware-Software Boundary with Salami
William McGrath, Jeremy Warner, Daniel Drew, David Mellis, Bjoern Hartmann

Citation
William McGrath, Jeremy Warner, Daniel Drew, David Mellis, Bjoern Hartmann. "Debugging on the Hardware-Software Boundary with Salami". Talk or presentation, 26, October, 2016.

Abstract
Novice-friendly embedded programming pla4orms such as Arduino have allowed countless people to begin with embedded programming and electronic design. These platforms help hide some of the development complexity compared to expert toolchains. However, debugging projects based on embedded processors can be confusing, frustrating, and time-consuming. We believe that these difficulAes arise due to the fact that much of the state of such systems is invisible to the user by default and difficult and tedious to examine. Developers may ask themselves "Why didn't the system respond to a changed input?", "Are the signals changing appropriately?", or even "Did I just accidentally irreversibly damage a part?". However, small microcontrollers do not have a wealth of output bandwidth and developers oJen resort to blinking LEDs or prinAng out messages at key junctures, but this approach is slow, someAmes difficult to interpret, and not scalable.

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  William McGrath, Jeremy Warner, Daniel Drew, David Mellis,
  Bjoern Hartmann. <a
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  October, 2016.

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  William McGrath, Jeremy Warner, Daniel Drew, David Mellis,
  Bjoern Hartmann. "Debugging on the Hardware-Software
  Boundary with Salami". Talk or presentation,  26,
  October, 2016.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{McGrathWarnerDrewMellisHartmann16_DebuggingOnHardwareSoftwareBoundaryWithSalami,
      author = {William McGrath and Jeremy Warner and Daniel Drew
                and David Mellis and Bjoern Hartmann},
      title = {Debugging on the Hardware-Software Boundary with
                Salami},
      day = {26},
      month = {October},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {Novice-friendly embedded programming pla4orms such
                as Arduino have allowed countless people to begin
                with embedded programming and electronic design.
                These platforms help hide some of the development
                complexity compared to expert toolchains. However,
                debugging projects based on embedded processors
                can be confusing, frustrating, and time-consuming.
                We believe that these difficulAes arise due to the
                fact that much of the state of such systems is
                invisible to the user by default and difficult and
                tedious to examine. Developers may ask themselves
                "Why didn't the system respond to a changed
                input?", "Are the signals changing
                appropriately?", or even "Did I just accidentally
                irreversibly damage a part?". However, small
                microcontrollers do not have a wealth of output
                bandwidth and developers oJen resort to blinking
                LEDs or prinAng out messages at key junctures, but
                this approach is slow, someAmes difficult to
                interpret, and not scalable.},
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/872.html}
  }
  

Posted by David Mellis on 28 Oct 2016.
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