In power electronics, switching and timing are the product. At tens to hundreds of kilohertz, a control decision that lands a microsecond late is not a rounding error: it is a different waveform, a different current, sometimes a different outcome for the hardware.
SIL is early, but it cannot see the mistimed edge. HIL can, but it arrives late.
This is the gap VP-M closes: the real production MCU, running the real firmware, closed-loop against an emulated plant that keeps up with real switching, on the desk, before the prototype exists. Replace this text with the full article when it is ready.