Types of Federates

  1. Value Federates

    • Direct Fixed Connections to other Federates

    • Physical values being sent back and forth

    • Associated Units

  2. Message Federates

    • Packets of data

    • No fixed connections

    • For things such as Events, Communication packets, triggers

  3. Combination Federate (Value+Message Federate)

  4. While not a separate type Filters are supported on all federate types and could be created on a simple federate that doesn’t otherwise support value or Message interfaces.