PLECS Workshop, On-Site

​Advanced Modeling and Simulation of Power Electronic Systems

08:30

Registration

09:30

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

11:00

Break

11:30

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

12:30

Lunch Break

13:30

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

15:00

Break

15:30

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

16:30

Q&A

16:45

End of Day

 

Documentation & spoken language: English

The seminar is free of charge. Please bring a laptop.

City: 
Pisa
Country: 
Italy
Date: 
金曜日, 10月 24th, 2025 - 8:30 am
Speaker: 

Plexim Power Electronics Engineer

Registration: 

University of Pisa
paolo.bolognesi@ing.unipi.it, +39 050 2217309

Plexim GmbH
info@plexim.com, +41 44 533 51 10

Venue: 

Università di Pisa - DESTEC
Aula Informatica interna
Polo A - Sistemi Elettrici
Via Diotisalvi 2
I-56122 Pisa
Italia/Italy