The bottleneck in hardware development
Development is accelerating. Access to the hardware is the constraint. Every handoff adds time, cost, and missed opportunities.
Three pillars to open the bottleneck
Shrink time and distance
Bring your engineers to the bench without shipping boards or booking flights. A small appliance sits next to your device under test (DUT) and dials out to the MIMICK Cloud, so anyone you authorize reaches that hardware from their own workstation. There's no VPN to configure and no inbound networking on the lab side.
Observe everything, trust the result
Every session runs through the Cloud, which authenticates you and keeps a recorded history of what happened. You can see how the hardware behaved and reproduce it later, instead of relying on someone's memory of the bench.
Run it once, replay it forever
Drive hardware from the mimick command-line tool in your scripts and CI. Start with one bench and grow toward a fleet of appliances, with consistent results you can audit.
MIMICK keeps moving when you can't
Hardware development shouldn't stop at 5 pm. Because MIMICK is CLI-first, your bench keeps working after you log off.
Work overnight
Queue long regression suites from the CLI in your CI pipeline and read the results in the morning, instead of waiting on a shipment or a teammate in another time zone.
Automate from anywhere
Anything that can run a command can drive your hardware: your scripts, your CI jobs, your own tooling. The appliance does the same work whether a person or a pipeline is calling.
Recorded history
Sessions run through the Cloud and are recorded, so an intermittent failure can be reviewed after it happens rather than reproduced from scratch.
Built for your work
Every hardware team has different needs. Here is how MIMICK fits some of them.
R&D engineer
Power cycle, flash, observe, and stress-test from anywhere. Finish bring-up and debugging without needing someone on-site.
- Control GPIO, power, and USB
- Automate bring-up tests
- Centralized log collection and history
Remote firmware engineer
Give remote developers eyes and hands on a shared device under test, and work the same board together in one session.
- Shared, recorded shell access
- Remote power cycle
- One DUT, many teammates
Compliance engineer
Run rigorous, repeatable test batteries for regulatory approval, with a recorded trail of every run.
- Repeatable CLI-scripted batteries
- Recorded session history
- Load firmware and its test suite
Calibration engineer
Automate the physical steps and capture the readings. Drive movement and power while you log sensor telemetry.
- Power relays and motor control
- Multiple sensor interfaces
- Recorded measurement log
Production operator
Run a validated script with minimal training. Operators get a clear pass or fail result at the end.
- One-command run workflow
- Capture chip IDs and serials centrally
- Clear pass or fail result
Firmware release engineer
Keep a fleet of boards ready to test your latest builds. Push firmware, run smoke tests, and catch regressions before release.
- Flash and test across device variants
- Parallel runs across the fleet
- Centralized logs and metrics
Stop shipping boards. Start shipping products.
See how MIMICK works in the docs, or request access to bring it to your own hardware.