Valeo & Anritsu team up to speed digital twin validation for software-defined vehicles
Press Release, 6 February 2026
Valeo and Anritsu have announced a strategic collaboration aimed at dramatically improving how connected, software-defined vehicles are tested and validated before they hit the road. As modern vehicles evolve into cloud-connected computers on wheels, traditional hardware-based testing methods struggle to keep up with the growing complexity, cost and time demands of continuous integration and deployment. The two companies’ partnership focuses on combining Valeo’s software expertise with Anritsu’s advanced connectivity simulation tools to create a digital twin framework that can mimic real-world network and telematics behavior in a fully virtual environment.
In practice, this means engineers can use virtual simulations to test everything from telematics units to vehicle-to-cloud and vehicle-to-vehicle interactions without building expensive physical prototypes for each scenario. Anritsu’s In-the-Loop simulator reproduces real-world field events, including complex cellular network conditions and multi-network interactions, allowing a digital twin of the vehicle’s connectivity systems to run on cloud or local servers. This approach significantly boosts the speed, scalability and automation of validation workflows, helping manufacturers meet the rigorous demands of software-defined vehicle development cycles while reducing overall costs.
Valeo’s Chief Technology Officer for the Brain division highlighted that telematics and connectivity are foundational to modern software-defined vehicle architectures, and virtualizing these systems is essential to meet shrinking development timelines. Meanwhile, Anritsu’s leadership underscored the importance of modeling edge cases that occur in real network environments, enabling OEMs to conduct thorough virtual testing from in-vehicle systems to backend infrastructure.
The collaboration will be showcased live at MWC 2026 in Barcelona from March 2–5, where both companies plan to demonstrate how digital twin validation can transform software testing for connected cars. By enabling more efficient and realistic testing early in the development process, this partnership could play a key role in accelerating the rollout of advanced, software-driven mobility features across the automotive industry.
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