PLECS Workshop, On-Site

​Advanced Modeling and Simulation of Power Electronic Systems

09:00

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 - Room Change to Auditorium

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 Day

 

Documentation & spoken language: English

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

City: 
Turku
Country: 
Finland
Date: 
Thursday, March 12th, 2026 - 9:00 am
Speaker: 

Dr. Riccardo Breda

Registration: 

Enrico Sansonetti
info@plexim.com, +41 44 533 51 10

Venue: 

Turku University of Applied Sciences
Joukahaisenkatu 3
FI-20520 Turku
Finland

Flyer: 
PDF icon Workshop_Program_Draft_TurkuAMK_120326.pdf

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