MicroHILS in Integration Technology

Integration Technology (Wako City, Saitama Prefecture) will release MicroHILS, a small-scale hardware-in-the-loop simulation (HILS) that allows ECU (electronic control unit) testing in a virtual environment without using a real vehicle, by September. While expensive HILS that test entire cars and engines are the mainstream, this product meets the needs of small-scale testing such as door mirror and window opening and closing. The product will be marketed to Tier 1 (first tier subcontractor) manufacturers in the automotive field. The MicroHILS is a set of hardware and software and is compatible with in-vehicle networks (CAN). The MicroHILS is a set of hardware and software, compatible with in-vehicle networks (CAN), and uses the open-source microcomputer Arduino for the hardware and the numerical calculation software Matlab/Simulink from MassWorks (Massachusetts, U.S.) for the software, some of which was developed in-house. Credit: The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images