Validation Of EPSim - An Embedded Platform Simulator For Control-Embedded Co-Design

The engineering processes for the design of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are often suboptimal due to - among others - inefficient collaboration between the involved engineering domains. This may lead to increased development time and cost, oversized hardware, suboptimal product performance, etc. One of the factors contributing to this inefficient collaboration is that the integration of product components in the final stages of the development process was not sufficiently specified at design time. In this paper, we propose the Embedded Platform Simulator, EPSim, enabling the virtual integration of the control and the embedded domain in early stages of the development process. We elaborate on the architecture of the EPSim-tool and validate its precision with traditional control-embedded Hardware-in-the-Loop simulations.