The recent trend towards software defined vehicles (SDV), involves the integration of complex software layers driven by modern E/E architecture such as zonal and high performance compute. ECU verification and validation becomes a significant challenge with the complex architecture and various test cases.

Virtualization of ECU provides an effective way to test and verify vehicle electronics in the early stages of the development process. Being hardware agnostics, it allows for early verification and defect detection of issues, left-shifting the process.