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Introduction


Application Areas

The SDL Explorer is a tool intended to support engineers involved in development of specifications or designs using SDL. It is designed to give the engineers a possibility to increase the quality of their work and to automate time-consuming tasks. It is focused on the following major application areas in the development process:

Structure of an SDL Explorer

An executable explorer is built up in the same way as a simulator. See Structure of a Simulator for more information.

The same interactive monitor system as for a simulator is used, but the set of available commands differ. The graphical user interface to the explorer monitor, the Explorer UI, works in the same way as the Simulator UI, but the set of available command buttons differ. For a description of some other differences, see The SDL Explorer User Interface.


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