Tutorial 1: Physical Modelling and Statechart Modelling in System Simulation: Challenges, Advantages, Disadvantages and Risks

Since 2000 the relatively old CSSL standard for simulation systems has become obsolete, and new standards and techniques for system simulation are arising. At modelling level, Physical Modelling or Component-based Modelling has introduced a new era for multidomain modelling and system simulation. The ´components´ may be part of textual or graphical libraries in various domains. With Modelica and with competitive VHDL-AMS modelling languages with a certain standard have emerged, using component-based modelling with a-causal relations. Of course it makes sense to couple this component based a-causal graphical modelling with the classical signal-oriented graphical modelling.