PLECS Workshop, On-Site

Registration

09:00

Introduction to PLECS

• General use of PLECS Blockset and PLECS Standalone

• Instantaneous switching

• Variable and fixed step operation

Exercise: Modeling a switched-mode power supply

10:30

Break

11:00

Solver Settings

• Definition of stiff and non-stiff systems

• Explicit and non-explicit solvers

• Stability domains

• Accuracy considerations, step size control

• Proper handling of discontinuities, zero-crossing detection

12:00

Lunch Break

13:00

Introduction to Thermal Simulation

• Switching & conduction loss descriptions

• Combined electrical-thermal simulation

• Determining loss values from data sheets

Exercise: Thermal modelling of a buck converter

14:30

Break

15:00

Bringing Simulation and Real Hardware Together

(Code Generation Workflow in PLECS)

• Automatic code generation for microcontrollers

• Plant code generation for the RT Box

• Nanostep®, FlexArray and CPU solver engines

• Real-time-simulation with 4ns step size for MHz switching

Demonstration: HIL Testbench with Microcontroller and RT Box

16:00

Q&A

16:15

End of Day