Abstract
Globalization and growing new markets force the car manufacturers and their suppliers to work faster and more effective in the development of new safety and comfort features for their vehicles. Hence, time-consuming expensive testing is more and more replaced by computer simulations. This contribution describes an integrated hardware and software environment which is used to perform real-time simulations of the vehicle dynamics. It is based on a higher-order semi-physical vehicle simulation model that is implemented on a DSP-based hardware. To visualize the dynamic behavior of the vehicle the simulated vehicle motion is animated using 3D graphics features.