Ship firmware faster with real hardware tests
Most firmware teams test on the one board in the office. We built Ferqon so your CI pipeline can flash and test on real devices without the bottleneck.
August 3, 2026 · Alejandro Ramirez
Most teams write firmware the same way they always have. Build on a developer laptop, flash the closest board, run a few manual checks, and hope the next release works in the field.
That works until it does not. A board in the field fails, and nobody can reproduce it because the only matching device is in the lab, or worse, already shipped to a customer.
The real problem is not the test. It is access.
Unit tests and emulation are useful, but they only tell you what the simulator thinks will happen. They do not catch the things that happen on real hardware:
- A power rail that droops under a specific sequence of operations
- A flash write that behaves differently after many erase cycles
- A peripheral that works in QEMU but not on the actual silicon
The fix is obvious: run tests on real devices as part of every build. The hard part is giving your CI pipeline access to those devices without turning one engineer into the full time board librarian.
What Ferqon changes
Ferqon Server stays in your lab and exposes every connected device to your CI runners. A pipeline YAML file describes the build, flash, and test stages, then Ferqon picks the right board profile, flashes the firmware, and records the results.
You get:
- Real hardware tests on every pull request
- One shared device pool instead of boards scattered across desks
- Logs and artifacts for every run, so failures are reproducible
- Self hosted deployment, so your firmware never leaves your network
Start small, then scale
The easiest way in is the free tier. One Ferqon Server, unlimited device joins, and enough capacity to prove the workflow on one project. When you need more servers or a longer update window, the paid tiers are one time licenses.
Create a free account and Ferqon sets up a free license automatically.