VILLASnode

Used in distributed- and co-simulation scenarios and developed for the field of power grid simulation at the EON Energy Research Center in Aachen.
https://github.com/villasframework/node

Category: Energy Systems
Sub Category: Grid Management and Microgrid

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Open-Source Real-time Multi-protocol Gateway

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/villasframework/node
Owner: VILLASframework
License: apache-2.0
Created: 2022-12-02T09:11:02.000Z (about 3 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2025-10-09T05:49:59.000Z (3 months ago)
Last Synced: 2025-10-17T05:25:18.965Z (2 months ago)
Topics: simulation, villas
Language: C++
Homepage: https://fein-aachen.org/projects/villas-node/
Size: 69.4 MB
Stars: 16
Watchers: 5
Forks: 15
Open Issues: 78
Releases: 1
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Citation: CITATION.cff
- Codeowners: CODEOWNERS

VILLASnode

This is VILLASnode, a gateway for processing and forwarding simulation data between real-time simulators.
VILLASnode is a client/server application to connect simulation equipment and software such as:

OPAL-RT RT-LAB,
RTDS GTFPGA cards,
RTDS GTWIF cards,
Simulink,
LabView,
and FPGA models

by using protocols such as:

IEEE 802.2 Ethernet / IP / UDP,
ZeroMQ & nanomsg,
MQTT & AMQP
WebSockets
Shared Memory
Files
IEC 61850 Sampled Values / GOOSE
Analog/Digital IO via Comedi drivers
Infiniband (ibverbs)

It's designed with a focus on very low latency to achieve real-time exchange of simulation data.
VILLASnode is used in distributed- and co-simulation scenarios and developed for the field of power grid simulation at the EON Energy Research Center in Aachen, Germany.

Documentation

User documentation is available here: https://villas.fein-aachen.org/docs/

Related Projects

MIOB
DINO

Contributing

All contributions are welcome!
If you want to contribute to VILLASnode, please visit the contribution guidelines in our documentation.

License

VILLASnode is licensed on a per-file basis under multiple open-source licenses.
Each source file contains an SPDX license identifier and copyright attribution in accordance with the REUSE Software guidelines.
For attribution, please refer to the SPDX headers in each file.
The Apache 2.0 license covers most of the codebase and is preferred for new contributions.
License compliance is automatically checked in CI, including validation of licenses in the LICENSES/ directory.

We kindly ask all academic publications employing components of VILLASframework to cite the following paper:

S. Vogel, N. Eiling, M. Pitz, A. Bach, M. Stevic, and P. A. Monti, “VILLASnode: An Open-Source Real-time Multi-protocol Gateway,” Journal of Open Source Software, vol. 10, no. 112, p. 8401, Aug. 2025, doi: 10.21105/joss.08401.

More publications using, or about VILLASnode can be found in the documentation.

For other licensing options please consult Prof. Antonello Monti.

SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014-2025 The VILLASframework Authors
SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

Contact

Steffen Vogel post@steffenvogel.de
Niklas Eiling niklas@eil.ing
Felix Wege fwege@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de
Alexandra Bach alexandra.bach@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de

Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems (ACS)
EON Energy Research Center (EONERC)
RWTH University Aachen, Germany

Citation (CITATION.cff)

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 OPAL-RT Germany GmbH
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
cff-version: "1.2.0"
authors:
- family-names: Vogel
  given-names: Steffen
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3384-6750"
- family-names: Eiling
  given-names: Niklas
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7011-9846"
- family-names: Pitz
  given-names: Manuel
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6252-2029"
- family-names: Bach
  given-names: Alexandra
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7385-4642"
- family-names: Stevic
  given-names: Marija
- family-names: Monti
  given-names: Prof. Antonello
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1914-9801"
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.16917994
message: If you use this software, please cite our article in the
  Journal of Open Source Software.
preferred-citation:
  authors:
  - family-names: Vogel
    given-names: Steffen
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3384-6750"
  - family-names: Eiling
    given-names: Niklas
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7011-9846"
  - family-names: Pitz
    given-names: Manuel
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6252-2029"
  - family-names: Bach
    given-names: Alexandra
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7385-4642"
  - family-names: Stevic
    given-names: Marija
  - family-names: Monti
    given-names: Prof. Antonello
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1914-9801"
  date-published: 2025-08-29
  doi: 10.21105/joss.08401
  issn: 2475-9066
  issue: 112
  journal: Journal of Open Source Software
  publisher:
    name: Open Journals
  start: 8401
  title: "VILLASnode: An Open-Source Real-time Multi-protocol Gateway"
  type: article
  url: "https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.08401"
  volume: 10
title: "VILLASnode: An Open-Source Real-time Multi-protocol Gateway"

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Login: VILLASframework
Email: villas@lists.rwth-aachen.de
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Description: VILLASframework is a toolset for local and geographically distributed real-time co-simulation.
Website: https://fein-aachen.org/projects/villas-framework/
Location: Aachen, Germany
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Package metadata

Total packages: 3
Total downloads:
- pypi: 185 last-month
Total dependent packages: 0 (may contain duplicates)
Total dependent repositories: 3 (may contain duplicates)
Total versions: 71
Total maintainers: 3

proxy.golang.org: github.com/VILLASframework/node

Homepage:
Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/VILLASframework/node#section-documentation
Licenses: apache-2.0
Latest release: v1.0.1 (published 4 months ago)
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pypi.org: villas-node

Python support for the VILLASnode simulation-data gateway

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