Comments for Behan's Ramblings http://blog.websterwood.com Thoughts . . . some only half baked Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:20:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Comment on The 4 Must-Haves for an Embedded Development Board. by Sean C. http://blog.websterwood.com/2009/07/22/4_must_haves/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Sean C. Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:20:23 +0000 http://blog.websterwood.com/?p=49#comment-4 I can tell you that these open up worlds of possibility for testers as well. <b>Blinky LED:</b> LED doesn't blink? Don't waste time testing! Go get Behan! <b>Serial console:</b> I can use expect and the high level language of my choice to send commands and read responses. A.K.A, write automated tests. <b>JTAG:</b> Well, for functional test, not so necessary. But test boards go nuts all the time, and I want to bring them back to life for the same reasons developers do. <b>Ethernet Port:</b> I can hook up a bunch of boards and use the same test head to drive all of them. This lets me do all kids of cool automated tests; I can have the boards communicate with each other, I can parallelize my test suite... Really, if I'm going to use more than one board in a test, point-to-multipoint communication is way easier over ethernet then dealing with terminal servers and other crap like that. [WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The poster sent us '0 which is not a hashcash value. I can tell you that these open up worlds of possibility for testers as well.

Blinky LED: LED doesn’t blink? Don’t waste time testing! Go get Behan!

Serial console: I can use expect and the high level language of my choice to send commands and read responses. A.K.A, write automated tests.

JTAG: Well, for functional test, not so necessary. But test boards go nuts all the time, and I want to bring them back to life for the same reasons developers do.

Ethernet Port: I can hook up a bunch of boards and use the same test head to drive all of them. This lets me do all kids of cool automated tests; I can have the boards communicate with each other, I can parallelize my test suite…

Really, if I’m going to use more than one board in a test, point-to-multipoint communication is way easier over ethernet then dealing with terminal servers and other crap like that.

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]]> Comment on Backuppc Everywhere by Anonymous http://blog.websterwood.com/2008/12/28/backuppc-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Anonymous Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:50:43 +0000 http://blog.websterwood.com/?p=7#comment-2 Mmmm. Backups. One day I want to use my mesh network to do distributed backups with my neighbors. Mmmm. Backups. One day I want to use my mesh network to do distributed backups with my neighbors.

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