On Tue, 2 Oct 2012, Fabrizio Boriero wrote:

> Hi again,
> I saw that in past someone talked about Orocos and Modelica...
>
> Is it possible to translate a Modelica description file into a Orocos
> component?

The semantic overlap between both is small, more in particular limited to
the data types on the input/output ports of the component in which Modelica
behaviour is deployed.

> If not (as I suppose) there are some suggestions to start to develop a tool?

Hugo Garcia has a prototype to integrate a data type "DSL" into
Eclipse-based code generation (read 'template filling'), using Xcore/Xtext.

The core issue here is get a formal data type model from the Modelica
system building tool(s).

> Regards,
> Fabrizio

Herman