PLECS & RT Box Workshop, On-Site

Registration

10:00

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

11:30

Break

12:00

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

13:00

Lunch Break

14:00

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

15:30

Break

16:00

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

17:00

Q&A

17:15

End of Workshop Day 1

10:00

Overview and Introduction to RT Box Workflow using PLECS

• PLECS overview

• From PLECS offline models to RCP and HIL

• Code Generation

10:45

RT Box Introductory Exercise

• PLECS RT Box features

Exercise: Introductory exercise using I/O ports

11:30

RT Box Library Overview

11:45

Break

12:00

Real-time Simulation of a Voltage Source Inverter (VSI)

• PLECS model creation using the target blocks library

• Deployment on the RT Box

Exercise: Voltage Source Inverter (VSI)

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Solver Engine

• RT Box architecture

• Sub-cycle averaging concept

• FPGA simulation using FlexArray solver

• FPGA simulation using Nanostep solver

Exercise: Solver engine

16:00

Break

16:15

Solver Engine

Exercise: Solver engine

17:00

RT Box Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) Application Demo, Q&A

17:30

End of Workshop Day 2