ACME Virtual Prototype · Hidden Cost Calculator

What the hardware bottleneck is costing you

Set up your project profile and see the financial and schedule impact of removing the hardware bottleneck with ACME's virtual prototyping platform.

Your project
Project profile
Voltage level
Application
Embedded SW team size 4
120
Project length (months) 18 mo
6 mo48 mo
Fully loaded cost / FTE (€/year) 100k €
60k €180k €
Efficiency assumptions
Engineering time you can recover 20%
10%30%
Lab dependency removed with ACME 50%
10%80%
Months waiting for first HW prototype 12 mo
6 mo18 mo
Estimated impact with ACME
Engineering cost
Total engineering cost
(team, full project)
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Engineering time recovered
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Laboratory cost
Current lab cost
(full project, one testbench)
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Lab cost with ACME
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Lab cost savings
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Time to market
Schedule improvement
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Share of project timeline recovered
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Testbench utilization
Bench-days tied up in debugging today
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Bench-days freed for functional testing
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Your physical test bench stays essential for functional, certification, and validation testing — ACME doesn't replace that investment. It moves day-to-day firmware debugging into the virtual environment, freeing bench capacity for the testing it was actually built for.
Total estimated savings lab cost savings + engineering time recovered
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R&D savings only — excludes the commercial value of earlier time-to-market, better software quality on release, reduced field risk, and better-informed product architecture decisions.

These are directional estimates based on real customer data. Book a 20-minute call to validate the numbers for your specific programme.

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Assumptions: lab time occupies 60% of project workdays on a single shared testbench · low-voltage lab rate €100/h, high-voltage €500/h · 21 working days / month, 8 hours / day · time-to-market improvement = HW wait time − 2 months (final integration buffer) · figures are directional planning estimates, not contractual guarantees.