Verisium Drone - PinDown ML-Debug Visualisation Tool

Abstract: In collaboration with Cadence this thesis work has created a web based interface which aims to visualise large sets of data in a more human readable way. Cadence is a company specialising in electronic system design and is offering other companies solutions for silicon design creation, simulation, implementation and signoff of analog and digital circuits and a lot more. This interface will also be replacing an old 3D based interface called CityScapes. The goal of this thesis was to create a new interface for the debugging tool PinDown with the help of user tests and established design principles. An interface for PinDown would function as a visual medium for the large amounts of data PinDown generates after a test-suite. The thesis consisted of three main phases: planning and information gathering, prototypes and user testing and lastly completion of the final report. The prototype development went through three iterations, lo-fi, mid-fi and hi-fi. During the lo-fi iteration three different designs were explored and in later iterations only the treemap design was kept and continued to be worked on. The resulting interface became an interactive treemap model with clickable elements, where each element in the treemap represents either a folder or file in a larger file system. When the user left clicks on a folder element it brings them into that folder meaning that only one layer of the file system is visible at one time. The user can also sort and filter out folders and files based on the data they have provided in the interface.