Computer Aided Simulation Program (CASP)

Computer Aided Simulation Program (CASP) is a block diagram based modeling, simulation and programming tool. Each block in a CASP model represent any thing from a simple logic, a mathematical equation, a hardware pin to a complex communication stack, an AI model or a complete high level user task. These blocks are implemented primarily in C/C++ an can be arranged and connected using CASP GUI based model editor or with a Python script to realize the desired logic or task. The resulted model can then be compiled and deployed on any target right from 8-bit Arduino micro-controller boards to desktop/server systems.

Even through the underlying data sharing between the blocks in a CASP model happens transparently through C/C++ interface, the block’s core logic can be implemented in either C/C++, Fortran or Python programming languages. Users can also create their own blocks to implement their own specific logic in any of these languages if required.

CASP provides extensive support for Python. Please refer CASP Python Support section for details.

CASP is developed primarily to assist students (right from secondary grade school), makers and engineers in realizing they logic with minimum or no programming expertise. It can be used to design, develop and validate real time embedded system software quickly with little or no programming effort. It can also be used by developers and software testers for validating programs and algorithms that are not possible through normal debug process. Typical use cases include embedded controller design, robotics, AI, IoT, network simulations, MIL, SIL, PIL & HIL testing and any general purpose embedded application.

CASP is available across all major operating systems including Microsoft Windows-7 (SP1) 64-bit (and above), macOS-11 (and above) and Linux Debian 64-bit (bullseye) based distributions.