Caspoc 2003

Caspoc 2003
A Simulation Experience!
 Fast Simulation
– of Power Electronics
– and Electrical Drives
Januari 2004 Simulation Research 1

Overview
What is CASPOC?
 Caspoc is especially designed
– to model and simulate
– power electronics
– and electrical drives
 Multilevel modeling
– various modeling tools are coupled
 Why is it fast and easy
– special models and simple user interface

Overview
What is CASPOC?
 Multilevel modeling
– Circuit model
– Block diagram
– C Code
 All in one schematic!

Overview
What is CASPOC?
 Why is it fast and easy?
– Dedicated towards the special modeling and simulation
issues in Power Electronics and Electrical Drives
– Intuitive user interface for easy operation

Caspoc for Education
Overview
 Easy to learn and use
 Many Samples
 Educational workbooks
 Viewer

Easy to use
 Short learning curve
 Many Samples
 Tutorials

Samples
 Many samples on Power Electronics
 Many samples on Electrical drives
 Samples are available on the web
 New samples are constantly uploaded

Educational example package
 Workbook on Power Electronics
 Workbook on Electrical Drives
 Samples are pre-programmed

 Questions and Remarks per sample

Viewer
 Students can simulate for free at home using the
viewer
 Viewer can simulate /

animate all samples
 No License required
 Viewer can be downloaded for free from the web

Overview of the program
Overview
 Application Areas
 Everything in one work screen
 Fast simulation
 Interactive
 Animation

Application areas
 Power Electronics
 Electrical Drives
 Power Systems
 Mechatronic systems

Workscreen
 Everything in one schematic editor
– Circuit
– Blocks
– Code
– Simulation Results
– Animation Objects

Fast Simulation
 Special program for Power Electronics Devices
– FAST Simulation
– No convergence problems
– Turning off inductor currents
– Switching capacitors parallel

Interactive User Interface
 View results during the running simulation
 Change parameters and continue the simulation
 Interactive buttons and keys lets you change parameters during
the running simulation
– KEY, UPDOWN, ONOFF

Animation
 Nodes are colored depending on the voltage
 Currents flow through wires are colored
 Signals in the block diagram are colored depending on the value
 Many animations objects
are moving rotating, etc

Features
Overview
 Model Power Circuits
 Model Block Diagram
 Add ANSII C code
 Custom Library blocks

Features
Power Circuit
 Model the electric circuit using electrical components
 Click and Drag components in the schematic
 Draw wires between components with one click!
 Add scopes to your circuit

Features
Block Diagram
 Model the control using basic analog blocks
 Many source signals and non-linear math. blocks
 Add scopes to view signals in your block diagram

Features
ANSII C Code
 Create custom blocks using C Code
 NO external compiler required
 Easy to build powerful custom analog blocks
 Flexible to create control blocks

Features
Library blocks
 Create custom blocks containing:
– circuit components
– block diagram
– C code
 Extensive library
– Many special blocks available
– All library blocks can be edited

Extended Features
Overview
– Coupling to Simulink
– Small Signal Analysis
– Web-enabled reports
– Control the simulation from a script
– Export of Spice netlist
– Export of Embedded C Code for microcontroller design
– Typecasting for fixed point simulation (controller design)
– Coupling to FEM/BEM field solvers

Extended Features
Coupling to Simulink
 Co-simulation with Matlab/Simulink
 Power Electronics in Caspoc, control in Simulink
 Couple to third-party tools in Simulink

Extended Features
Small-Signal analysis
 Applicable to any Power Circuit
 Especially for Switched Mode Power Supplies
 Calculate impedance and transfer functions
 No linear models required

Extended Features
Web-enabled reports
 Create web-enabled reports that include:
– Schematic
– Notes and
remarks
– Simulation
results from
the scopes

Extended Features
Control the simulation
 Run multiple simulations
 Vary parameters for each run
 Optimize parameters

Extended Features
Export Spice Netlist
 Create a Spice netlist from your Caspoc model
 Run Spice using initial conditions from a Caspoc
Simulation

Extended Features
Export of Embedded C Code
 Export of C Code from the block diagram
 Replace the analog block diagram by C Code

Extended Features
Typecasting
 Set the type of the signal before it is exported into embedded C Code
 Types:
– int, int8, int16, int32, int64, etc..
– short, long , etc..
– signed, unsigned , etc..
– double , etc..

Extended Features
Coupling to Fieldsolvers
 Import parameters in a .Model for:
• Inductance
• Capacitance
• etc...
 Import tabulated values:
• Force = F(position)
• Torque = F(angular position)
• Inductance = F(position)
• Inductance = F(position, current)
• Inductance = F(position, i1, i2, i3)

Modeling and Simulation
What is simulation?
 What can we model

– Complexity of the model
– Availability of parameter
 What can we simulate
– Large simulations take a lot of time
– Large simulations increase complexity and clarity

Simulation is just a tool!
 What is a model
– Reflection of the users imagination, how a
design should work
 What is a simulation
– Simulation is a prediction of what might
happen

Do we need simulation?
 Complexity
– Most designs are to complex to calculate by
hand
 Tool
– In simulation you can play with the design

What to model?
 Which systems?
 Which components?
 Schematic entry?

 Power Electronics converter is more than an
electrical circuit

 Electrical Drive is more than an electrical
machine

Multilevel modeling in CASPOC
 Power electronic circuit
 Electrical machine
 Mechanical load
 Source (Main or Generator)
 Control

Types of models in CASPOC
 Circuit components
 Block-diagram
 Modeling-
Language

How to couple the models?
 Measure voltage/current in the electric
circuit
 Control switches in the circuit
 Controlled voltage / current source
 MIMO Block-diagram interface to ML

Applications / Power Electronics
 Rectifier 1ph .. 3ph
 DC-DC Switched mode
 DC-AC / AC-AC
 Isolated DC Converters
 Resonant Converters
 Power Factor Correction

Applications / Electrical Drives
 DC-Drives
 AC-Drives
 Brushless DC Drives
 Stepper motors
 Switched Reluctance machines

Special models
 RMS / Average / PF
 Harmonics
 Mechanical Loads
 Control Blocks
 ab, dq Transformations
Simulation & convergence
 Fast because of
– Special semiconductor
switch models
– Multilevel approach
 No convergence problems because of
– Special semiconductor models
– Stable numerical method for the circuit analysis
Libraries
Example Library
 Free Example Library

– Basic DC converters, rectifiers and small DC drives
 Power Electronics Library
– 90+ examples of power electronics, ready to run
 Electrical Drives Library
– 70+ examples of electrical drives, ready to run

Animation
Visualizing simulation results
– Voltage, current or signal level indicated by color

– Node color: voltage level
– Component color: current level
– Block diagram color: signal level
– Components animation: motors, switches, lamps
– Object animation: crane, car, elevator, spindle, etc.

Animation
Importance of Animation
 Animation is not a toy!

 Teaching, current paths are visible
 gaining insight
 searching for failure modes
 understand principles and behavior

Animation Properties
 Different levels
for voltage,
current and
signals
 Display not
every time step

Example Simulation
Buck converter
 Circuit and
control in one
schematic
 ‘Scopes’ in
schematic
 Change model/
parameters during
simulation

Example Animation
Conveyor belt with Bang-Bang control
 Mechanical
animation
objects
 LED objects
indicate the
state of the
control

Example Animation
Three Level Inverter
 Current path
 Failure modes

Example
DC Shunt machine with crane
 Animation
object: crane
 Depending on
the angle, the
crane lifts the
load

Example
Switched Reluctance Machine
 Current control
 non-linear
inductance

Tutorials
Overview
 Basics
 Getting Started
 Various Tutorials

Tutorials
Basics
 Basic overview of useful commands and buttons to get started
 Learn the very basics
 HowTo.pdf Page 4

Tutorials
Getting Started
 Build a single phase rectifier and learn how to
– Build the circuit
– Build a block diagram
– Add scopes
– Set Simulation parameters
– Run the simulation
– Export the results to a text processor
 GettingStarted.html

Tutorials
Various tutorials
 SETTING THE MYDOCUMENTS DIRECTORY
– HowTo.pdf Page7
 Learn how to set the directory where you can store
your simulations

Tutorials
Various tutorials
 CREATE A REPORT FROM YOUR SIMULATION
– HowTo.pdf Page 20
 Learn how to create a web-enabled report from your
simulation results

Tutorials
Various tutorials
 MULTIPLE SIMULATIONS WITH PARAMETER
VARIATIONS
 Learn how to run multiple simulations and change
parameters for each simulation

Tutorials
Various tutorials
 EXPERIMENTER
 Learn how to create optimization scripts and
run multiple simulations from a C script

Tutorials
Various tutorials
 IDEAL SEMICONDUCTOR PARAMETERS
 Learn how to set the parameters for the build-
in ideal semiconductor models

Tutorials
Various tutorials
 .MODEL DATABASE
 Learn how to use parameters from a .model
database

Tutorials
Various tutorials
 CREATE A CSCRIPT
 Learn how to create custom blocks using C
code

Tutorials
Various tutorials
 SHARE VARIABLES AMONG CSCRIPTS
 Learn how to share variables among custom
blocks

Tutorials
Various tutorials
 HEATSINK MODELING
 Learn how to model a single heat sink

Tutorials
Various tutorials
 USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS
 Learn how to create custom blocks using
algebraic expressions

Tutorials
Various tutorials
 STORE FILES RELATED TO A PROJECT
 Learn how to organize your data belonging to
one project

Tutorials
Various tutorials
 MODELING LANGUAGE IN C CODE
 Learn how to use the Microsoft Visual C
compiler for creating custom blocks

Tutorials
Various tutorials
 GENERATE AUTO HTML REPORTS
 Learn how to create a set of reports from
simulations in one directory

Tutorials
Various tutorials
 SIMULINK – CASPOC COUPLING
 Learn how to couple Caspoc and Simulink

Tutorials
Various tutorials
 SMALL SIGNAL ANALYSIS
 Learn how to set up small-signal analysis
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Tutorials
Various tutorials
 EXPORT EMBEDDED C CODE FROM THE BLOCK
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 Learn how to export embedded C code from a block
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 All in one schematic!

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 What can we model

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 Free Example Library

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 Learn the very basics

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