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Private Beta

Replace Heavy Hardware Simulation with Lightweight Virtual Hardware

Certo desktop is a portable application with a driver-level hardware virtualization layer designed for embedded and systems teams who need faster iteration without heavyweight HIL infrastructure.

 

We’re inviting 5–10 engineers to pressure-test our private beta.

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What We Need From You

1.  Install and run Certo desktop in a real workflow

2.  Attempt to break it

3.  Provide structured feedback

What You Receive

  • Early private access (60 Days Free)
  • Direct input into roadmap decisions
  • Private Discord channel with core team
  • Founding Design Partner recognition
  • 50% OFF Certo Desktop App for LIFE

Who This Is For

This beta is designed for engineers who:

  • Build embedded or firmware systems
  • Integrate hardware and software in a full stack environment
  • Work in hardware validation or integration
  • Maintain or depend on HIL environments
  • Use tools like QEMU, Renode, Simics, dSPACE, NI, or Vector
  • Need faster iteration without physical hardware
  • Care about performance, portability, and control

If your iteration loop is constrained by hardware availability or heavy simulation stacks, Certo EMU is for you.

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Join our exclusive beta program and help shape the future of hardware emulation

The Problem

Hardware-in-the-loop and traditional simulation stacks are:

Heavy

Expensive

Infrastructure- dependent

Difficult to scale across teams

Slow to iterate

Embedded Workflow: Before & After

Stop Hardware From Holding Your Product Team Hostage

Modern product development is often trapped in a sequential Waterfall of Pain where Designers, System Engineers, and Developers spend months blocked by hardware availability. Certo enables Parallel Velocity by virtualizing the hardware contract, ensuring your entire team moves in sync from day one.

Before: Waterfall of Pain

Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Month 4 Month 5 Month 6 .
Hardware
Firmware
Software
QA/Testers
Design Phase Arch defined
Design Phase Arch defined
Design Phase Arch defined
Design Phase Test Planning
Hardware Fabrication Waiting for fab.
BLOCKED Guessing registers.
BLOCKED UI mocks only.
IDLE TIME Waste of resources.
Board Bring-Up

Hardware smokes or fails boot.

Integration

Software finds "Real" API is different.

QA / Testing

Bug found. HW or SW issue? Unknowable.

Result Potential HW Respin

After: Parallel Velocity

"Easy Integration" in Month 3 isn't a lucky accident—it's the result of the Firmware team's TCL logic and the QA team's capture-replay data ensuring everyone is working on the same "reality" from the start.

Month 1 Month 2 Month 3
Hardware
Firmware
Software
QA/Testers
Design & Executable Spec. Architect defines HW & driver interactions in Certo Emu.
Outputs VHB file depicting hardware interface. Teams align on single spec.
Hardware Team Routes PCBs, sends to Fab.
Firmware Team Writes TCL logic for the virtual hardware behavior.
Software Team Connects to the virtual hardware so the software thinks the real hardware is connected.
QA Team Captures live system calls to be replayed later without real hardware.
Shift-Left: 80% of bugs found before hardware exists.
Physical Integration
Hardware arrives. Firmware is flashed. It works immediately. Any remaining bugs are purely electrical.
Cost Analysis
Before Found in Month 6; requires 3 months of rework.
After Found in Month 2; fixed in 5 minutes.
Time to Market: Reduced by 50%. Accelerating Revenue.

What is Certo EMU?

Certo EMU allows teams to emulate hardware behavior without physical devices or heavyweight orchestration layers.

Driver-level DBI

Driver-level dynamic binary instrumentation

Config-driven

Config-driven hardware behavior modeling

Ultra-lightweight

<1MB portable runtime

Infrastructure-independent

No complex orchestration required

Local execution

Designed for local execution

Configurable simulation

Built for configurable system simulation

Frequently Asked Questions

What systems is the Certo EMU currently compatible with?

Supports Debian and RHEL on both x86 and ARM architectures. See our roadmap for upcoming platform compatibility.

Is my hardware configuration data safe?

Yes, Certo EMU’s desktop app is designed to run on your local machine and does not store your data in a cloud environment.

Can it be run as a headless software?

Yes! Certo EMU now has a CLI.