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What is AllSpice Actions?
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Introduction to AllSpice Actions
Software teams usually have automated tasks that makes it easy for them to collaborate and launch features more often. However hardware teams don’t have an equivalent method to automate their design processes. That’s until now.
Actions is a powerful feature within AllSpice that you can use to leverage the power of automation. We are empowering hardware teams by bringing CI/CD concepts and practices from the software industry.
What is Hardware DevOps?
Hardware DevOps is a field that applies the principles of DevOps to the development and operations of hardware systems. It combines practices and tools that enable engineers to streamline and automate their design process.
The main focus is to improve the team’s efficiency, speed, and quality of hardware design while providing organizations greater visibility and traceability into their hardware development operations.
What is CI for Hardware?
Continuous Integration (CI) for hardware development is an adaptation of the CI principles traditionally used in software development. It involves regularly validating changes from the start of the design cycle and automated testing to ensure that new modifications integrate smoothly with the existing design.
This process significantly reduces the time between validation cycles and helps catch issues early in the development process.
What is AllSpice Actions?
Actions is a Hardware DevOps feature in the AllSpice platform that helps your team implement CI best practices in their workflow, automating tasks that were being done manually. With AllSpice Actions, you can automatically run tests whenever someone pushes a change into a design, automatically generate a bill of materials with each design release, track the total cost of your designs, and many other things.
You can build an automation engine once, and benefit each time you update your PCBs or schematics.