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PAGE 77 POWER ELECTRONICS
The new Electrical Power Systems
Simulation Package generates real-
time simulation models from infor-
mation on the circuitry. Combined
with SimPowerSystems™, the pack-
age offers an ideal development en-
vironment for testing electrical sys-
tems. In addition to model splitting
and the mean value models for power
electronics bridge circuits you already
know from the dSPACE Power Real-
Time Library, you can now also per-
form FPGA-based model computa-
tion. The package provides ready-to-
use FPGA applications so you can in-
tegrate your own SimPowerSystems
models without having to program
the FPGA for each application. The
Electrical Power Systems Simulation
Package therefore combines the func-
tions of the Power RealTime Library
with a new, FPGA-based method. In
a networked system, this combina-
tion lets you compute each model
part on the ideal real-time platform
for the respective latency require-
ments. The automatic translation of
circuitry information into real-time
code saves time during engineering
and provides very precise, realistic
simulation results, particularly when
the FPGA-based solution is used. This
generic solution is recommendable
especially if the required topologies
cannot be simulated with the dSPACE
standard libraries (XSG Electric Compo-
nents and ASM Electric Components).
You can use the Electrical Power Sys-
FPGA-based model Processor-based model
IOCNET Fast applications
~2.5 µs
Slow applications
~25 µs
Circuit diagram
SimPowerSystems model
tems Simulation Package for applica-
tions such as auxiliary devices in vehic-
les, traction drives for electromobility,
and electrical energy conversion of
regenerative power generators.
The Electrical Power Systems Simulation Package
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