WIDE: Worksheet Integrated Development Environment for Arduino-Based Embedded System Design

This paper presents a novel programming approach for Arduino boards, utilizing tables within a spreadsheet environment. This method automatically generates over 80% of the code in a typical application, simplifying programming, facilitating debugging and presenting an easier learning curve, especially for non-electronics and computer science engineers. WIDE supports defining analog and digital pins, logical variables, state description, state flow, printing, menu, Infrared communication, Bluetooth, RS485 communication, and storing variables in EEPROM using tables that are easy to fill, modify and troubleshoot. The automatically generated code is collected into one worksheet and then copied to the Arduino IDE for compilation and downloading. This method has been successfully applied to various projects, allowing more time to be spent on problem-solving rather than the mechanics of code writing.