A SystemCAMS extension for the simulation of non-linear circuits

This paper proposes a new model of computation for SystemCAMS with similar features like in VHDL-AMS or Verilog-A/AMS to enable the modelling of analogue, non-linear parts of cyber-physical systems. It integrates smoothly into the current architecture of SystemC / SystemCAMS and, thus, allows joint simulations along with other SystemC methodologies like TLM for abstract modelling of digital hardware / software systems. Finally, it is illustrated that our implementation of the proposed extension is already in use for some industrial examples.

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