SIMAPI - A COMMON PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FOR SIMULATION

This paper describes SimAPI, a common programming interface for cycle simulators, and how SimAPI was used to test the S/390(R) Parallel Ente rprise Server Generation 4, SimAPI provides a rich set of functions us eful for programs and test cases to drive and monitor a simulation mod el, Support exists for multithreading, event detection, checkpoint/res tart, and accessing objects in the model, Most of the code which imple ments this interface is shared among all simulators, with only a small amount of simulator-specific code needed to connect a simulator to Si mAPI, This makes it easy to run a new simulator with SimAPI.