Virtual Prototyping: Closing the digital gap between product requirements and post-Si verification

The paradigm shift of the digital transformation of the Industry 4.0 towards top level graphical representations of system and product requirements make early digital representations more and more common, often in the form of SysML models. In later process development phases, Virtual Prototypes are often used to facilitate early product learning, test case enabling and debug. This paper discusses the various aspects of Virtual Prototyping starting from very abstract models down to hardware prototyping and expected modelling effort and benefit based on examples out of the automotive smart power and sensor world.