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

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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.

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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    Julie  Newcomb. <a
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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}
    }
    

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