What is Smithy?
Smithy is an open-source, cross-platform software application designed for modeling, simulation, and automatic code generation of complex systems. It features a modular, drag-and-drop interface that allows users to quickly construct system models by connecting functional blocks from extensive model libraries.
Some key capabilities and benefits of Smithy include:
- Flexible modeling framework supports continuous, discrete, and hybrid system representations, making it suitable for multidomain models including mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and control systems.
- Extensive libraries of predefined blocks for common functions, sensors, actuators, controllers, logical operators, etc. Users can also create custom blocks.
- Sophisticated solvers and numerical integration methods for running high-fidelity, real-time simulations to characterize system dynamics and validate performance.
- Automatic C/C++ code generation from system models for implementation on embedded processors or PLCs.
- Customizable 3D visualizations of simulations support model verification and results analysis.
- Interface supports TLM (Transmission Line Modeling) for cosimulation with other tools.
- Free and open-source under the GNU GPL license. Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
With its multifaceted toolset for model-based design and its extensive libraries, Smithy provides an efficient development environment for designing, testing, and deploying a wide range control, mechatronic, and cyber-physical systems.