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% Registration Automated BoardFarm: Only Better with Bacon
% [2]Register/Submit Christian Holtje (christian.holtje@timesys.com)
In this presentation, we will introduce the concept of
a BoardFarm, a tool to aid in the development and
support of embedded systems. Timesys had an opportunity
to save time and energy that was being spent juggling a
limited number of embedded boards among our developers,
customers, and support staff who are spread throughout
the world. We decided to build a system to provide
remote access to the boards and to automate many of the
tedious tasks such as running tests, booting the boards
and installing software including the operating
systems, board support packages and toolchains. This
allows the developers and support gurus at Timesys to
concentrate on the problem at hand instead of how each
board boots or how a specific board needs to be set up.
We will talk about why the BoardFarm was built, how to
use it, how it works, and what it's being used for. We
will also talk about ideas that we have for future
improvements. Pigs were harmed in the making of this
BoardFarm and were delicious.
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