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Hardware validation, on autopilot.

Automate your electronics validation. Hilstart agents write firmware, generate tests, and run them on your real hardware.

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Board validation adds weeks to every release.Test setups do not carry over between revisions. Firmware and tests are rewritten from scratch each time. The design-to-validation loop that closes in minutes in software stays open for weeks in hardware.Hilstart agents write the firmware, generate the tests, and run them on your hardware, carrying every setup forward from bench to production line.

Agent driven, human verifiable at every step.

Your existing design data and requirements get converted into a detailed engineering specification. Agents build tests against this and run them automatically on your hardware.

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  • 01 · Context

    Single source of truth.

    Inferred from your design files, confirmed by you.

    Hilstart reads the schematic, layout, netlist, BoM, I/O summary and your requirements into one specification. Once approved, this context becomes the source of truth for everything downstream, setting the constraints for hardware interaction.

  • 02 · Generate

    Generate electronics tests.

    Written against the spec you approved, not against a guess.

    The agent writes electronics tests for board bring-up, firmware development, or design validation — at board level and for subsystems integrated into a larger enclosure — with strict test limits derived from the specification and visible before anything runs.

  • 03 · Run

    Run tests on real hardware.

    Autonomously, on the bench, against the limits you set.

    Tracer executes the approved plan on real hardware and reports what it found. No output is activated until the spec and test plans are approved, and every finding opens to the record behind it.

    • Close the loop on your hardware.

    Hilstart writes tests, runs them on real hardware, and keeps the loop closed, without the test infrastructure that usually takes a team and a year to build.

    Hilstart preparing a board's context and landing on it: the moteus c1's design files opened into layers while the demo creates the board, ingests the bundle, extracts the sources and drafts the context, then the Context page with 20 facts (7 to review), 14 connection points and 5 source files over the board card: the moteus c1 render and its description beside the ratings read from its datasheet, and its inputs, outputs and protection.

    Run it in our cloud, or from your own environment.

    Both reach the same hardware layer, with the same capabilities, so use whichever fits how you already work. Your data stays yours: your designs, tests, and measurements are only accessible to your team, never used to train our models, and never shared with third parties.

    Sandbox

    The environment is already set up: the agent drives the bench, writes and flashes firmware, and brings up boards — all in your browser. Upload your design files or connect a repository.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    A board, Tracer, and whatever design files or requirements you already have.

    Close the loop on your hardware

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