HARDWARE SIMULATOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hardware simulator capable of executing termination determination of a simulation at high speed without excessively limiting the scale of phonomena capable of being simulated. SOLUTION: Substance counters B1-Bm for counting the number of substance are provided for every substance of a simulation object. Random number generators R1-Rn, enzyme counters K1-Kn, throttle circuits V1-Vn, reaction execution circuits H1-Hn, and a connection switching circuit SW increase and decrease the count values of the substance counters B1-Bm according to reaction between substances, and termination condition determination parts C1-Cm and a termination condition detection network circuit SN determine whether a termination condition of simulation is satisfied or not based on the count values of the substance counters B1-Bm. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI