Validation using Virtual ECU

Overview

Connected vehicles, Autonomous driving (AD), Electrification, and shared mobility are mutually reinforcing developments in the automotive industry. As we move towards driverless cars and software-defined vehicles, the technology running the vehicles is becoming increasingly complex and requires continuous design, development, testing, and monitoring.

Over a period of time, the number of ECUs and software complexity has increased. But before deploying complex software and ECUs on the vehicle, there is a need for rigorous testing to ensure safety.

Current testing solutions focus primarily on validating ECUs with Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulation. However, there are scenarios where hardware is not yet available, or software components are at different stages of development. To address these challenges, virtual ECU-based simulation is being explored by various players in the automotive industry.

Our whitepaper proposes an end-to-end testing strategy that leverages a virtual environment for ECU- validation at various stages to reduce overall development, testing, and deployment time to market. This paper also provides information on how one such virtual ECU tool called QEMU - an open-source emulator and virtualizer – can be applied. The tool enables us to perform validation as close as possible to the actual hardware.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn about effective testing strategies for future mobility solutions.