Important Characteristics of VHDL-AMS and Modelica with Respect to Model Exchange
Olaf Enge‐Rosenblatt, Joachim Haase, Christoph Clauß · 2007
Abstract. Modeling and simulation have been established as fundamental facilities in the development of analog and analog-digital systems. Essential advances have been achieved by the usage of behavioral modeling languages. These languages can be considered as a link between the technical problem and the mathematical model that can be evaluated by computational methods. The paper outlines the various possibilities that are offered by the language VHDL-AMS – standardized by the IEEE to describe analog and mixed-signal systems – and the language Modelica. The underlying modeling approaches are compared. Last but not least, the potential to transform models written in one language into models of the other language is discussed. Keywords: VHDL-AMS, Modelica, model exchange 1