The flexible, scalable, 100 percent software-defined NI HIL platform is built on industry standards such as the PXI platform, which is supported by 60+ vendors. With vendor-agnostic support for and compatibility with modeling environments like MathWorks® MATLAB® software and Simulink® software, the NI HIL toolchain uses high-fidelity model integration. Lead times for new systems and their expansions take weeks—not months—reducing downtime, saving costs, and giving you full control over how and when to scale as your test needs evolve, without the need for vendor-specific services.
The NI approach to HIL testing helps transportation engineers build scalable, reusable test systems for increasingly software-defined transportation and automotive systems. The open, modular architecture consisting of multiple building blocks supports foundational capabilities like real-time plant simulation, I/O interfaces, communication buses, fault insertion and expands into additional features such as multi-ECU testing, and CI/CD automated test workflows. Engineers can integrate models from environments such as MATLAB® and Simulink®, and other vendors to transition from MIL and SIL to HIL and connect HIL testing with continuous integration workflows. The NI HIL System Design Guide provides reference architectures, software and hardware guidance, workflows, example projects, and video tutorials to help develop and maintain HIL test systems across transportation applications.
NI is a company we work very closely with. We see a lot of really good engineering that fits to the way we want to design our products and to the mindset that we have in our validation teams.
Chief Engineer for Assisted and Automated Driving (AAD)
Jaguar Land Rover
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