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

10:00

Solver Settings

• Definition of stiff and non-stiff systems

• Explicit and non-explicit solvers

• Stability domain

• Accuracy considerations, step size control

• Proper handling of discontinuities, zero-crossing detection

11:30

Break

11:45

Introduction to Thermal, Magnetic & Mechanic Modeling & Simulation

• Switching & conduction loss descriptions

• Combined electrical-thermal simulation

• Permeance Capacitance Analogy Model

Exercise: Thermal modeling of a buck converter

13:15

Overview of PLECS Tools

• Custom components

• Steady State analysis

• Small signal analysis

• State machine, C-Script and the DLL block

• Simulation scripting

Exercise: Building a modulator using the state machine block

14:00

Overview and Introduction to the PLECS RT Box

• Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)

• Rapid control prototyping (RCP)

• Demonstration of a real-time simulation

14:30

End of Day