Tactel/Room5 : Micron Automata Processor Simulations + Developer Portal

Tactel/Room 5
Client: Micron Services

 During my time at Room5, I got a taste of supercomputing on a project for Micron that developed automated processing chips for analyzing various types of big data. The end-users were programmers from different disciplines ranging from educational, government, and bioinformatics services.

THE CHALLENGE

The Room5 needed to design a marketing site that allowed people to test the product. The engineering team created simulators for hands-on user learning. I was designing solutions with the engineering team and had to document the learning process through what we called the AP Workbench. This workbench was the UI that spoke with the chip.

HOW I CONTRIBUTED

I was so thrilled to be a part of the simulation process to teach the user on how the Automata Processor worked in action and explaining all the components creatively. We built a marketing website, the "Developer Portal", which integrated the simulators to help sell the product by giving people a taste of what it can do. I worked closely with the developers and engineers using Ruby-On-Rails to build a prototype that allowed users to test out a mock up of the processor online. I also built out the UX prototype of tutorials and supporting information on a "Knowledge Portal" platform so that people can navigate to the learning modules they needed.

AP WORKBENCH SIMULATION

This portion was a collective experience working with the engineers to capture the best personal learning feedback. The AP Workbench is a visual experience, and we tried to capitalize on it through familiar iconography, color legends, and building a player. As the sequence played, the nodes will light up according to how the developer programmed the individual states.

Developer Portal Support

Although we had plenty of information on the website portal and extensive documentation, it was essential to include a Knowledge Base. This was my last contribution to the project which included a UX prototype to the design experience of finding help through search terms that would reference the documentation. Since there is hardware involved, I wanted to give the user the option to search for software and hardware terms.