Timesys Launches Embedded Board Farm, Providing Shared Remote Access to Hardware for Software Development, Test Automation, and Debugging
June 11, 2021
News
Timesys Corporation announced the launch of their Embedded Board Farm (EBF)
Timesys’ Embedded Board Farm is designed to provide a secure, user-owned infrastructure solution for remote access to hardware for software development, test automation, and debugging across an organization.
The EBF and Board Support Packages (BSPs) for any embedded operating system (Linux, Android, QNX, FreeRTOS and others) provide secure remote access for developers, testers, support engineers, sales engineers, and others.
Unlike solutions that only provide access to simulated project hardware, the EBF provides remote access to live hardware, ensuring that teams are working with real products. This is done by using a centralized server that grants users full control of the devices, as if the live hardware were sitting next to them. Everything sits behind the company’s firewall, ensuring all products are secure even when accessed remotely.
According to Timesys, EBF users cut hardware-access-dependent development and testing costs by up to 80% with the EBF while accelerating time-to-market.
Timesys Embedded Board Farm allows users to:
- Collaborate and work remotely on software development, test automation, debugging, and sales demos
- See all inputs & outputs, live encrypted video/audio streaming, securely behind a firewall
- Share boards with multi-user access to facilitate collaboration between team members on shared hardware
- Stay in their preferred workflow for debugging and automate processes for testing with EBF command line interface
Embedded Board Farm allows users to streamline and accelerate testing and quality assurance with test automation framework plugins. EBF includes integration with test systems and frameworks such as Fuego, Squish, and the Timesys Test Project to enable test coverage including UI, and to allow for high efficiency and collaboration across geographies.
Timesys’ Embedded Board Farm is designed to eliminate hardware access bottlenecks for high efficiency, reduced budget, and schedule. As well as shorten test cycles with test automation framework plugins and allow teams to remotely develop and debug BSPs from anywhere.
Development teams can request a personalized Embedded Board Farm demo by visiting https://www.timesys.com/open-source-embedded/board-farm/#schedule-demo.
For more information, visit www.timesys.com
Tiera Oliver is the assistant managing editor at Embedded Computing Design. She is responsible for web content editing, product news, and story development. She also manages, edits, and develops content for ECD podcasts, including Embedded Insiders.
She utilizes her expertise in journalism and content management to oversee editorial content, coordinate with editors, and ensure high-quality output across web, print, and multimedia platforms. She manages diverse projects, assists in the production of digital magazines, and hosts company podcasts by conducting in-depth interviews with industry leaders to deliver engaging and insightful discussions.
Tiera attended Northern Arizona University, where she received her bachelor's in journalism and political science. She was also a news reporter for the student-led newspaper, The Lumberjack.
