The Toastboard: Ubiquitous Instrumentation and Automated Checking of Breadboarded Circuits
Daniel Drew, William McGrath, Bjoern Hartmann, David Mellis, Julie Newcomb

Citation
Daniel Drew, William McGrath, Bjoern Hartmann, David Mellis, Julie Newcomb. "The Toastboard: Ubiquitous Instrumentation and Automated Checking of Breadboarded Circuits". Talk or presentation, October, 2016.

Abstract
The recent proliferation of easy to use electronic components and toolkits has introduced a large number of novices to designing and building electronic projects. Nevertheless, debugging circuits remains a difficult and time-consuming task. We present a novel debugging tool for electronic design projects, the Toastboard, that aims to reduce debugging time by improving upon the standard paradigm of point-wise circuit measurements. Ubiquitous instrumentation allows for immediate visualization of an entire breadboard's state, meaning users can diagnose problems based on a wealth of data instead of having to form a single hypothesis and plan before taking a measurement. Basic connectivity information is displayed visually on the circuit itself and quantitative data is displayed on the accompanying web interface. Software-based testing functions further lower the expertise threshold for efficient debugging by diagnosing classes of circuit errors automatically.

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  Daniel Drew, William McGrath, Bjoern Hartmann, David Mellis,
  Julie  Newcomb. <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/887.html"
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  Automated Checking of Breadboarded
  Circuits</i></a>, Talk or presentation, 
  October, 2016.

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  Daniel Drew, William McGrath, Bjoern Hartmann, David Mellis,
  Julie  Newcomb. "The Toastboard: Ubiquitous
  Instrumentation and Automated Checking of Breadboarded
  Circuits". Talk or presentation,  October, 2016.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{DrewMcGrathHartmannMellisNewcomb16_ToastboardUbiquitousInstrumentationAutomatedChecking,
      author = {Daniel Drew and William McGrath and Bjoern
                Hartmann and David Mellis and Julie  Newcomb},
      title = {The Toastboard: Ubiquitous Instrumentation and
                Automated Checking of Breadboarded Circuits},
      month = {October},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {The recent proliferation of easy to use electronic
                components and toolkits has introduced a large
                number of novices to designing and building
                electronic projects. Nevertheless, debugging
                circuits remains a difficult and time-consuming
                task. We present a novel debugging tool for
                electronic design projects, the Toastboard, that
                aims to reduce debugging time by improving upon
                the standard paradigm of point-wise circuit
                measurements. Ubiquitous instrumentation allows
                for immediate visualization of an entire
                breadboard's state, meaning users can diagnose
                problems based on a wealth of data instead of
                having to form a single hypothesis and plan before
                taking a measurement. Basic connectivity
                information is displayed visually on the circuit
                itself and quantitative data is displayed on the
                accompanying web interface. Software-based testing
                functions further lower the expertise threshold
                for efficient debugging by diagnosing classes of
                circuit errors automatically. },
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/887.html}
  }
  

Posted by Daniel Drew on 2 Nov 2016.
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