The network-connected hardware interface for autonomous validation.

Give agents direct, controlled access to your hardware and test equipment. Tracer combines programmable power, mixed-signal I/O, embedded buses, and external instrument control in one network-connected interface.

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Upload design context

Step 1 — Upload design context Exploded stack of the real moteus c1 pinned by teal registration lines, beside a manifest of the ingested design context: schematics, layout, BOM, test access, requirements. DESIGN CONTEXTSCHEMATIC · 12 SHEETSLAYOUT · 4 LAYERSBOM · 125 PLACEMENTSTEST ACCESS · 82 PADSREQUIREMENTS · 9 TESTSINGESTSCHEMATICS, LAYOUT, BOM AND REQUIREMENTS BECOME A LIVE MODEL

Your design files become a shared source of truth — explicit limits the agents work within.

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Custom fixtures and harnesses

Step 2 — Custom fixtures and harnesses A transparent fixture plate hovers over the real board; drill marks on its face drop dashed alignment beams onto scattered bare-copper probe points. BED-OF-NAILSFIXTUREFITFIXTURE GEOMETRY IS BUILT FROM THE SAME MODEL

Cut to your board, so validation starts the moment hardware arrives.

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Connect Tracer and your equipment

Step 3 — Connect Tracer and your test equipment The board sits in its fixture: pogo pins make every contact at once and leave as a single harness into Tracer, and the customer's scope and supply plug into Tracer rather than onto their board. SCOPEPSUTRACERmoteus c1FIXTURECONNECTONE HARNESS CARRIES EVERY SIGNAL — NO PROBING, NO CLIP LEADS

One USB-C powers it; your USB and LAN instruments join as one network-addressable bench.

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Agents run validation and firmware

Step 4 — Agents run validation and firmware development The board’s real motor-thermistor net is highlighted in teal while a floating readout card records it drifting up during the motor test. RUNAGENTS EXECUTE THE PLAN AND EVERY STEP LEAVES EVIDENCE

Tests, failure inspection, firmware flashes — rerun until it passes, from your desk or another country.

What Tracer enables

Tracer turns an electronics bench into a stable, network-addressable endpoint that agents can operate remotely.

Controlled power and measurement

Sequence power, enforce current limits, measure voltage and current, and evaluate the board against approved thresholds.

Controlled power and measurement Tracer feeds a rail to the board under test while a readout records the rail’s voltage and current against an approved limit. RAIL A · 12.00 VI 0.62 ALIMIT 3.0 APSU · 0–48 V · 3 ADUT

Embedded communication

Exercise GPIO, CAN, SPI, I²C, and UART using the same interfaces as the device firmware and surrounding system.

Embedded communication Five bus strands run from Tracer to the board under test — GPIO, CAN, SPI, I²C and UART — each carrying its own traffic. GPIOCAN FDSPII²CUARTSAME BUSES AS THE FIRMWARE

Precise sequencing

Coordinate power-rail transitions, GPIO events, bus traffic, and external instrument captures with sub-millisecond precision.

Precise sequencing Four lanes — a power rail, a GPIO line, a CAN burst and an instrument capture — with their edges registered to the same sub-millisecond instants. RAILGPIOCANCAPTURET0T0 + 0.4 MSSUB-MILLISECOND

Autonomous validation loops

Hilstart agents can run tests, inspect failures, modify and flash firmware, then repeat the tests on the device to verify the change.

Autonomous validation loops A board in the middle of a closed track with four stations on it — test, inspect, flash, rerun — and one packet going round until it passes. TESTINSPECTFLASH FIRMWARERERUNUNTIL IT PASSES

Remote and repeatable access

Run the connected bench from your desk, home, or another country using Hilstart's browser environment or the API from your own agent and build system.

Remote and repeatable access The bench — Tracer and the board — ringed as one network endpoint, linked over a long run to a terminal far off to the side, traffic running both ways. BENCH · ONE ENDPOINTBROWSER · APIANY NETWORK

Technical specifications

Analog input
8 channels: 4 × 0–5 V and 4 × 0–24 V
Analog output
4 channels: 2 × 0–5 V and 2 × 0–24 V
Programmable power
0–48 V at 3 A with per-rail current limiting and voltage and current telemetry at 1 kHz
Fixed power rails
5 V and 3.3 V, both rated at 3 A with per-rail current limiting and voltage and current telemetry at 1 kHz
System power
One USB-C connection powers the Tracer system
Digital I/O
10 bidirectional GPIO with software-selectable 1.8 V, 3.3 V, or 5 V levels; timer channels support PWM
Isolated I/O
2 opto-isolated inputs and 2 galvanically isolated solid-state relay outputs rated at 2 A
Embedded buses
CAN FD or Classical CAN up to 5 Mbit/s with software-switched termination; SPI, I²C, and UART with selectable I/O voltage
Pin protection
ESD, overcurrent, overvoltage, and negative-voltage protection on every external pin
Timing
Sub-millisecond coordination across Tracer's internal peripherals
External instruments
Control supported USB and LAN equipment alongside Tracer's internal channels

Close the loop on your hardware

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