Emilie Rouland, Philippe Cuenot and Eric Jenn, research engineers at IRT Saint Exupéry, with Eric Faure and Nicolas Broueilh from ASTC Design Partners, received the ERTS2 conference award in the field of virtual engineering for their paper “An Experiment is Exploiting Virtual Platforms for the Development of Embedded Equipments“. This paper a system hardware co-development approach taking benefits from virtual platform technologies in an industrial context. This approach is being evaluated on a use case representative of aeronautics, space, automotive and transportation applications.