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TimeLike™ is a framework for computer modeling and simulation of time-dependent systems and model-based engineering of hardware-software systems. TimeLike supports modeling of continuous-time, discrete event, and hybrid (continuous/discrete) systems. TimeLike provides a user-friendly connect-the-blocks user interface for creating system models, and a simple spreadsheet like interface for setting up and executing parameter studies. What distinguishes TimeLike from other simulation frameworks, such as SimuLink, is its extreme flexibility; TimeLike can be used to model virtually any kind of time-dependent system, at any level of fidelity, limited only by the user’s knowledge of how the actual system works. Of course there is no magic involved; if you want to model a large, complex system unlike anything that has been previously modeled, you will probably have quite a bit of work to do, but at least you should find the framework to be a help, rather than a hindrance.

TimeLike is also designed to provide a useful foundation for a wide variety of domain-specific modeling tools. For example, one such tool, LightLike, is designed to support high fidelity modeling of certain kinds of optical systems.

Finally, TimeLike is designed to provide a robust general purpose integration platform for independently developed domain-specific modeling tools, enabling system modelers to use the tools they are already familiar with to model those aspects of the system each is well-suited for, and then to combine them into a single integrated model of the whole system.

TimeLike™ is a trademark of TimeLike Systems LLC.