India, Aug. 21 -- In a move to modernise its vehicle development process, Suzuki Motor Corporation has partnered with technology services company Tata Elxsi to establish a Cloud Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Centre. The new facility, located in Trivandrum, India, aims to fast-track the creation of Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs) by moving development and validation to a virtual environment.

The centre's core function is to provide a cloud-based HIL validation system, a testing method where a vehicle's electronic control units (ECUs) are connected to a simulated environment. Instead of using a physical car, engineers test the software on the actual hardware, but the "loop" is completed by a computer that simulates the rest of the vehicle. T...