Extend | Extend (Imagine That, Inc.) is a simulation environment used to model, analyze, and optimize processes. It has a lot of features like libraries of components, hierarchies of models, linking with MS Office, and the ability to model continuous, discrete event, and hybrid systems. Extend has its own modeling language (ModL) which resembles C, and the ability to call code from other languages. It has specialized packages for Industrial Systems, Operations Research, and Continuous Process simulations. |
SIMUL8 | SIMUL8 by Visual Thinking Intl. It allows the user to pick from a predefined set of simulation objects and statistical distributions to create the model. It also allows hierarchical modelling. Main focus on discrete event simulation. |
Dymola | The modelling environment Dymola, by Dynasim, an object oriented tool for modelling and simulation of continuous systems. Focus on robotics and mechanical systems. Now integrated with Modelica modelling language. Modelica allows integration and reuse of code developed in different modelling and simulation environments. |
VisSim | VisSim (Visual Solutions), a visual block diagram language for nonlinear dynamic simulation. Demo available for download from the home page. |
Awesim | Awesim provides a simulation engine focused on the production of model animations thanks to Visual SLAM. Animations can be built graphically and the user can specify controls to build interactive simulations. |
LabVIEW | Labview (National Instruments): a visual programming environment, that enables interfacing with various measurement and laboratory devices. It now sports various simulation-relaated add-ons such as the NI LabVIEW SImulation module that allows to develop simulation models that acquire data in real-time using LabVIEW's data acquisition functions. It is also possible to import Simulink models in LabVIEW and to integrate Simulink models with a variety of real-time hardware I/O. |
Goldsim | GoldSim is a general purpose simulator for nearly any kind of physical, financial or organizational system. Models are built graphically drawing an influence diagram of your system. Goldsim Academic is offered free for students, professors and teachers. Goldsim also provides a player that enables anyone to view your model, without requiring the installation of the full package. Goldsim also provides dedicated modules for specific issues such as contaminant transport, radionuclide decay. Goldsim simulation can also be run in a distributed environment thanks to the Godlsim DP component ; C0 i. g! T9 P) B, K8 e
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BuildSim | BuildSim, by Tritera, is an Integrated Environment for Design, Simulation and Analysis of Systems. BuildSim is an interactive software application that integrates numerical analysis, block diagram mathematical representations, signal processing andgraphics in a graphical interactive environment.It allows to generate source-code (C++ and Java). Available for Macintosh. There is a version available for download. |
OptSim | OptSim 4.0 is the result of the merge between the former OptSim 3.6 sample mode engine, implementing simulation in the time domain sample by sample using a linear convolution algorithm, and the LinkSIM block mode engine, impelenting the Frequency Domain Split Step. It is an intuitive modeling and simulation environment supporting the design and the performance evaluation of the transmission level of optical communication systems. |
MicroSaint | Micro Saint is a general purpose, flexible simulation software product. It has a graphical user interface and is based on a flow chart approach to modeling. Runs on Windows machines. Demo available for download. |
EcosimPro | EcosimPro is a continuous system simulator. It is capable of dealing with Differential Algebraic Equations. It has a graphical user interface which facilitates the modeling task. Icons appearing in the model editor correspond to the real components of your system.The user can specify the models using the dedicated EL language, which can call FORTRAN and C routines.An interesting feature is the support of "simulation experiments" for a given model. A debugger is also available. |
SimCreator | SimCreator is a graphical simulation and modeling system. It is aimed at the simulation of continuous time systems.It's interface is similar to Mathworks's Simulink. Simpler models can be connected to build complex models. Models can be nested. The graphical specification is then translated in C code. A beta version is avaliable for download , while a commercial version is expected for the 4th quarter of 2000. |
Berleley Madonna | A numerical simulation program for Macintosh and Windows computers. Designed to be a general solver of systems of ordinary differential equations. Developed at the University of California at Berkeley for teaching and research, it has been used for six years in classrooms and laboratories. It is Shareware, download here . |
XJ Technologies | XJ Technologies provides a set of tools, all of them with a visual development environment, for different simulation fields: hybrid simulation (AnyLogic), parallel systems (Covers), and statecharts (AnyStates). |
Simprocess | Simprocess is an object-oriented, process modeling and analysis tool. It combines the simplicity of flowcharting with the power of simulation, statistical analysis, Activity-Based Costing (ABC), and animation. |
SansGUI | SansGUI is modeling and simulation environment for developing and deploying scientific and engineering simulators without writing any graphical user interface code. SansGUI is currently available for Microsoft Windows platforms. Microsoft Visual C++ and Compaq Visual Fortran are supported for creating highly interactive in-process simulators while other languages can be used to develop external process simulators. |
SimCreator | SimCreator is a graphical simulation and modeling system. At the top level is a GUI interface that allows placement and connection of various components. Each component can either be a subgroup made up of additional components, or a C Code component.
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QX3D | QX3D is an editor and a code generator that helps you visualize and animate your mechanical model. Just tell it the bodies to be connected, their geometric attributes (i.e. frame location,orientation), and the body shapes, then it will generate the VRML codes to visualize it for you. Large number of hapes can be assigned to each body. You can also animate it with thesimulation results base on your multibody dynamics simulation. Demos available. |
SimCad Pro | SimCAD Pro is a Process Simulation and modeling tool, which allows top down modelling of complex industrial processes. The main process flow is defined and then each process cell is expanded into its individual processes. CreateAsoft, the maker of SimCad pro, also provides a viewer to show and distribute your simulations.
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SIGMA | SIGMA claims to have been the first graphical simulation environment running on Windows. It is a valid eductaional tool, since it allows the modeller to describe the system using process flow charts. It is also able to manage complex systems, thanks to Event Graphs. These Event Graphs can be edited evend during the simulation.
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