Revolutionize your automotive development process with the power of ECU virtualization
Embrace a new era of efficiency, flexibility, and innovation that will propel your vehicles to new heights.
Embrace a new era of efficiency, flexibility, and innovation that will propel your vehicles to new heights.
The automotive industry is undergoing a transformative shift to meet evolving customer demands for convenience, safety, autonomy, and electrification. This revolution is steering the industry toward software-driven vehicles, amplifying complexity and demanding continuous efforts in design, development, testing, and monitoring. While current testing methods focus on Hardware-in-Loop (HIL) simulation to validate ECUs, challenges arise when hardware isn’t readily available or software components are in varying stages of development. To address this challenge, Virtual ECU based simulation is being explored by various players in the automotive industry.
vECUs bring important benefits such as front- loading of the validation effort, greater testing scalability, and better ecosystem collaboration.
Synopsys Silver
Silver, a virtual ECU platform, provides a comprehensive option for validating the entire vehicle electronic system without having to depend on physical hardware
ECU virtualization solutions empowers you to break free from traditional hardware-based development cycles. Experience faster development, reduced costs, and enhanced collaboration. Embrace flexibility and scalability to future-proof your vehicles in an ever-changing automotive landscape.
With Silver, virtual ECUs can be built that closely mimic the behavior of their real counterparts. Silver is also a powerful experimentation environment for validating and testing the interaction of networked ECUs, engine, transmission and other vehicle components through simulation.
Do not lose time anymore when upgrading to a new software release in the vehicle. After the initial effort to set-up the automated build process, updating the vECU for a new software release is typically done within a few minutes. This way, software bugs can be detected early by simulation, before moving to the vehicle.
Silver allows to run simulation models of various tools on your computer without having these tools installed in the execution environment. During distributed development, models are exchanged between developers in binary form (FMU, sFunction, Silver module) – without passing the corresponding source code. This helps to protect your know-how.
Depending on the use case and the availability of the source code, different parts of the ECU software can be ported to a PC.
A Silver configuration can also be duplicated quickly. This allows every developer to use his or her personal development environment without blocking scarce resources such as HiLs, test rigs or test vehicles.
Virtualize your electronic control unit based on Silver, either once as part of a pilot project, or continuously during development for each software release.
Streamlined Development Process
Cost-Efficiency
Enhanced Flexibility
Improved Collaboration
