TechnoPro Launches Engineering Services Leveraging Vector's 'vVIRTUALtarget'

Tokyo, Japan, June 2, 2026 – TechnoPro Consulting Partners Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; hereinafter 'TechnoPro') has officially launched a new vECU engineering service utilizing 'vVIRTUALtarget,' a virtual ECU generation tool from Vector Informatik GmbH (Vector Group Headquarters: Stuttgart, Germany; hereinafter 'Vector'). This service focuses on technical support for flexibly integrating virtual ECUs (vECUs) generated by Vector's vVIRTUALtarget with various third-party products via the OpenSUT API. This enables the construction of development and verification environments that do not rely on traditional physical ECUs, thereby achieving greater efficiency, improved quality, and reduced development costs for automotive software. In recent years, automotive electronic control systems have become increasingly complex and sophisticated due to the advancement of electrification, autonomous driving, and connectivity. Consequently, traditional verification methods using physical ECUs have made early-stage verification difficult, leading to challenges such as longer development periods and increased costs. To meet the demand for early verification using vECUs based on virtualization technology, TechnoPro has built an engineering service that consistently supports everything from vECU generation to integration with external tools and the construction of integrated test environments, leveraging Vector's vVIRTUALtarget. In particular, by utilizing the OpenSUT API, the service ensures high compatibility and scalability with existing development tools and verification environments, allowing for flexible responses to the diverse needs of development sites. Vector's vVIRTUALtarget is a tool that generates ECU software compliant with the AUTOSAR architecture as a virtual ECU capable of running on a PC. It features RTE (Runtime Environment) and BSW (Basic Software) abstraction, as well as OS simulation functions, enabling the reproduction of communication simulations in a virtual environment independent of hardware. Furthermore, the OpenSUT API provides a C-language-based communication interface, enabling signal access, execution control, and time management between the vECU and external tools. This allows the vECU to be seamlessly integrated into existing development toolchains, enabling verification from the early stages of development. TechnoPro intends to continue advancing vECU technology, strengthening support for integration with diverse development tools using the OpenSUT API, and promoting the fusion of Model-Based Development (MBD) and AI technology to contribute to the construction of next-generation automotive software development environments.