Architecture and Conventions

What DPsim is built from, and the rules the code follows.

Start here. These pages describe the shape of the library, the modules it divides into and the class hierarchy underneath them, together with the conventions any change is expected to follow.

Architecture

The modules DPsim is built from and the class hierarchy underneath them.

Build

Building DPsim from source, with and without the optional features.

Coding Conventions

Scaling of quantities and logging rules that code in DPsim has to follow.

Last modified 03.08.2026: pybind: restore SystemTopology.add as a deprecated alias (#622) (a0db078)

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