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The advance of technology and the demand for new features on vehicles has been challenging the automotive industry to find ways to speed up its development process, while increases the robustness and quality of its products. On this context, the embedded software development for vehicles has been directly impacted. In other words, the number of Electronic Control Units (ECUs) considerably increased on the past few years and the number of lines of code, as well as their complexity, have been exponentially increased. In order to deal with this new reality, besides the automotive test prototypes used during the development, the automotive industry has been using different virtual environment to develop, verify and validate its products.

Nowadays, technology advances have been growing exponentially, creating many branches of possibilities for new products and ways to improve the ones that are already on the market. These new possibilities have been used in the automotive industry to increase efficiency, quality, robustness of their products and also to introduce several functionalities that were not possible before. As result, project complexity is also exponentially increasing. On this context, several tools, techniques and processes have been developed and used to guarantee the quality and robustness of their products, while minimizing development time in order to stay competitive at the market. Considering this context, the use of Hardware In The Loop systems (HIL) is increasing, due to its flexibility, reliability and representativeness that have been verified over time for verification and validation activities using Electronic Control Modules.