CSIM's general purpose graphical editor captures system descriptions as hierarchical block diagrams, such as for architectures or software applications. The behaviors of the interacting blocks are described in standard ANSI C or C++ with a few simple extensions...
The CSIM simulator provides animation and interactive execution. Interactive post-processing tools support intuitive data visualizations and analysis. Over 400 pre-defined models are included in the standard CSIM distribution...
CSIM's development has focused on speed and memory efficiency for large system scalability, as well as methods for abstract modeling while maintaining accuracy. It has been successfully applied on projects containing hundreds of processors, thousands of application tasks, or millions of entities.