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