PLECS Unleashed!

During the past years, PLECS has become the tool of choice for high-speed simulations of power electronic systems in the MATLAB®/Simulink® environment. Now, PLECS is even more versatile: In addition to the traditional PLECS Blockset, PLECS Standalone is available as a completely independent product — and even faster thanks to its own, dedicated solvers!

The two editions share the same intuitive, easy-to-use graphical user interface and the same system-oriented modeling approach. Analog and digital control structures can be modeled directly in PLECS using continuous and discrete signal processing blocks. The extremely flexible C-Script block allows custom functionality to be implemented directly in the C programming language.

What's new in version 3.2

 Scripting Interface

Users of the PLECS Blockset have always been able to run non-interactive simulations from a script. Now, PLECS Standalone also allows you to write simulation scripts, for example to perform parameter sweeps. Alternatively, you can configure PLECS Standalone as an XML-RPC server in order to run simulations and evaluate the results from within other applications.

 Enhanced PLECS Scope

The PLECS Scope now allows you to keep and overlay the traces from multiple simulation runs, both interactively and from a script. This is particularly useful for visualizing e.g. parameter sweeps.

 Advanced Machines Models

The Permanent Synchronous Machine model offers a voltage-behind-reactance implementation that permits open-circuited stator windings. This makes it easy to interface with arbitrary external circuits such as rectifiers.

Try out these and many other extensions of PLECS.

Testimonials

Danfoss Drives - Danfoss uses PLECS for the development of a 1.2 MVA dynamometer converter
Hyundai Elevator - Hyundai develops direct AC/AC power conversion for elevator drive
Panasonic - PLECS helps reduce EMI emissions of power tools
SMA Technologie - SMA uses PLECS to develop next generation of flagship inverter "Sunny Boy"

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