dSPACE outlines how HIL test assets can move into SIL

Summary

dSPACE has published guidance on reusing established HIL assets in software-in-the-loop validation. The company describes carrying plant models, network and restbus configurations, ECU artifacts, test projects and simulation setups between virtual and physical environments instead of maintaining separate copies.

Supplier claim

According to dSPACE, common artifacts can let teams begin regression work before ECU hardware is available, reserve scarce HIL benches for integration and timing-critical checks, and support PC- or cloud-based continuous testing. These are workflow benefits presented by the supplier, not independent benchmark results.

Bench-selection questions

Before standardizing on this approach, ask which artifacts transfer without conversion, how identical test semantics are proven across SIL and HIL, and whether your existing XIL, CI and reporting tools remain usable. Also quantify model correlation effort, licensing for parallel SIL execution, configuration/version control, and the HIL capacity actually released after migration.