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Throughout the time, evolution processes of biological organisms are characterized by self-healing, adaptation and not the last, surviving abilities. Mimicking all these features in VLSI circuits, this has lead to technological improvements that make possible the designing and building of fault-tolerant systems. Because complexity is almost a requirement of these systems, in order to exhibit the above mentioned features, designing and simulating them efficiently, require a tailored modeling and simulation environment. By studying the design and implementation flow of embryonic systems, it can be concluded that a modeling and simulation environment has to have the capabilities of modeling through a programming language, as close as possible to the implementation methods, and in the same time the power of simulating in real-time. The paper focuses on presenting a new modeling and simulation environment, giving an example of a structure for an embryonic system. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]