Virtual prototyping as a mechanism for simulation-based design

ABSTRACT

The concepts of simulation based design and simulation as specification require support from appropriate computing tools. The Virtual Test Bed software continues to evolve to provide this support. Features of the software that support early-stage top-down collaborative design, in-situ and ex-situ execution of subsystem models at independent time steps, and variable levels of resolution are described here.

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