Automated testbed and real-time port analysis for reconfigurable input–output boards

ABSTRACT

In the computational world, automation plays a vital role in every aspect. The idea of developing and testing Reconfigurable Input–Output (RIO) Boards automatically without manual interaction is a challenging task. Initially, testing was done manually which takes a lot of time and also requires human interaction. With the proposed idea one can reduce human interaction and testing time with smart automated design setup. This testing includes testing of various functionalities of the RIO boards. This can be done by testing the features of each port with its pin configuration. To be more precise, in this process an automated testbed is designed and algorithms are proposed to verify the features of each pin such as Digital Read, Digital Write, Analog Read and Analog Write of the RIO boards along with the motor pins. Thus, the proposed method makes the setup simple, without any complications by giving the instructions to perform the testing process for each board without human interaction. Results show that the proposed method can reduce time consumption 95%, human interaction by 95% and increase testing accuracy to 87%.

KEYWORDS:

• Automation
• RIO boards
• digital write
• digital read
• analog write
• analog read

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.