Emphasis on Evaluative Prerequisites for Decisive Software-in-the-Loop (SiL) Environments

Recent trends in virtualization have shown significant desideratum, for the simulations to be performed using credible SiL environments. The SiL environment is a plausible approach, which is decisive in verifying the complex control algorithms, embedded into various automotive ECUs. Major challenges would be associated with the approaches, processes, and manipulation of risks, in the course of the development of credible SiL environments. The need for a competent mitigation plan is required, which might postulate a paradigm shift in the software development processes. This is quintessentially required for the development of an effective, reliable, and credible SiL environment. With different approaches and processes, currently, for different SiL environments, created using different tools, from different vendors, emphasis on the evaluation of the standard set of prerequisites is very much necessary. The evaluation provides technical clarity and aids in the process of vECU generation, with a significant impact on the implementation of a credible SiL environment. This decisive SiL environment thus enables verifying & validating the vECU behavior and performance. In this paper, we provide insights into the evaluative prerequisites, considered before the creation of the SiL environment. The evaluation of these prerequisites is imperative in identifying and selecting the software components and evaluating its available information, integrated as part of vECU. With the help of use-cases, we try to highlight and emphasize the imperative prerequisites, evaluated, and the need for its evaluation, in creating a credible SiL environment.