PowerDEVS is a general-purpose software tool for discrete event system specification (DEVS) modeling and simulation oriented to the simulation of hybrid systems. It allows atomic DEVS models to be defined in C++ language that can then be coupled graphically in hierarchical block diagrams to create more complex systems. The environment automatically translates the graphically coupled models into a C++ code which executes the simulation.
A feature of PowerDEVS is the possibility to perform simulations under a real-time operating system (RTAI) synchronizing with a real-time clock, which permits the design and automatic implementation of synchronous and asynchronous digital controllers. Combined with its continuous system simulation library, PowerDEVS is also an efficient tool for real-time simulation of physical systems. Another feature is the interconnection between PowerDEVS and the numerical package Scilab. PowerDEVS simulations can make use of Scilab workspace variables and functions, and the results can be sent back to Scilab for further processing and data analysis. In addition to describing the main features of the software tool, the article also illustrates its use with some examples which show its simplicity and efficiency.
These are generic installation instructions.
In order to be able to install and compile ModelicaCC, the following dependencies must be installed:
- make
- qt5-default
- g++
- libqt5svg5-dev
In order to build the documentation:
- texlive-latex-base
- texlive-latex-extra
The simplest way to compile this package is:
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cdto the directory containing the package's source code and typeautoconfto generate the configuration scripts. -
Type
maketo compile all the binaries. The different tools are located in the bin folder. -
You can remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory by typing
make clean.
- Scilab removed as a dependency and distributed in the deb package.
- Build only for Linux x86_64 platforms
- New Windows distriution binaries based on WSL Linux.