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INDEX 223

Parameter estimation 21 Software interpretation 85
Partial differential Software simulation 36
equation 126 SpectreHDL 68
Petrinet 47 State graph 17
Physical domains 77 Stiffness matrix 117
Physical modelling 125 Stokes’ friction 43
Plausibility testing 24 Structural definition 75
Popper 2 Structural mechanics 117
Positive-definite 51 Structural modelling 70, 116
Potentials 77 Structurally valid 7
Pr/T nets 47 Surface micromechanics 163
Predicate/transition networks 47 Switched capacitor technology 166
Predictively valid 7 Synchronisation
Pressure sensor after interrupt 92
capacitive 126, 166 by the lockstep algorithm 59
Prototype by the time-warp algorithm 60
virtual 14 System identification 21, 29, 131
PSpice 61
Table models 75, 131
Reaction force 106 Tables models 20
Reaction moment 106 Time-warp algorithm 60, 92
Replicatively valid 7 Top-down design 10
Ritz method 129 Torsional mechanics 128
Ritz procedure 116 Transition 47
Transmission element 59
Saber 123, 186 Validation 7
SCS Technical Committee on Model
Credibility 6 Validity 27
Semi-active wheel suspension 136 empirical 27
Sensitivity analysis 30 heuristic 27
theoretical 27
Signal assignment 74
Signal driver 74 Value range
continuous 8
Simulated annealing 132 discrete 8
Simulation 6, 33 Verification 7
of block diagrams 36 formal 26
of circuits 33, 45 Verilog-A 68
of finite elements 36, 51 Verilog-HDL 68
of logic 34 VHDL 47, 68
of multibody systems 35, 50 VHDL-AMS 63, 108
of software 36
Simulation cycle of VHDL-AMS 80 VHSIC 68
Visualisation
Simulator 33 of software 98
mixed mode 65 VSS 61
Simulator backplane 58, 61
Simulator coupling 58 Wheel suspension 111
Software 83 semi-active 136
Software compilation 88
Software debugging 98 Z-transformation 75