NAME

Sim - Simulator engine for discrete events

VERSION

This document describes Sim 0.02 released on 2 June, 2007.

SYNOPSIS

use Sim;

Sim->schedule(
    0.2 => sub { print "Hi\n" },
    0.4 => sub {
        Sim->schedule(
            0.5 => sub { print "Wow!\n" },
            Sim->now + 0.2 => sub { print "Hello!\n" },
        );
    },
    0.5 => sub { print "now is ", Sim->now, "\n"; },
);

Sim->run( duration => 1.0 );  # upper-limit for simulation time

# OR: Sim->run( fires => 15 );  # upper-limit for number of event fires

print "now is ", Sim->now, "\n";  # now is 0.6

DESCRIPTION

Sim is a general-purpose discrete event simulator engine written in pure Perl. It was originally developed as the run-core of a sequential/conbinational logic circuit simulator named Tesla.

The Sim class is just a static class wrapping around a Sim::Dispatcher instance and a Sim::Clock instance. I used AUTOLOAD to do the magic instead of writing a lot of boring code. It's expected that using Sim::Dispatcher directly can be a bit faster but is certainly less convenient.

If you want to use a different clock model with vectorized time read, say a [sec, delta], which is found in a lot of EDA simulators, then you should use Sim::Dispatcher instead of Sim and define your clock class yourself.

See Sim::Dispatcher for more information.

STATIC METHODS

All the methods of Sim::Dispatcher are available for this class, but they are exposed as static methods only :)

VERSION CONTROL

You can always get the latest version of the source from the following Subversion repository:

http://svn.openfoundry.org/sim/

which has anonymous access to all.

If you do want a commit bit and become a coauthor, please let me know :)

CODE COVERAGE

I use Devel::Cover to test the code coverage of the test suite:

---------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ File stmt bran cond sub pod time total ---------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ blib/lib/Sim.pm 100.0 50.0 66.7 100.0 n/a 5.7 91.7 blib/lib/Sim/Clock.pm 100.0 83.3 n/a 100.0 100.0 9.0 97.3 blib/lib/Sim/Dispatcher.pm 94.6 75.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 31.1 92.2 ---------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------

AUTHOR

Agent Zhang <agentzh@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2006, 2007 by Agent Zhang. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can modify and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

Sim::Dispatcher, Sim::Clock.