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1.1 Introduction

Ptolemy is a research software infrastructure upon which specialized design environments (called domains) can be built. The key part of the software infrastructure, called the Ptolemy kernel, is made up of a family of C++ class definitions. Domains are defined by creating new C++ classes derived from the base classes in the kernel. Domains can operate in either of two modes:



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