Power conversion requires control of IGBTs, power MOSFETs, and other solid-state power electronics. Designing a digital controller with simulation can help ensure stability, improve power quality, optimize dynamic performance, and handle fault conditions.
Power electronics simulation provides insight into interaction of digital control algorithms, power semiconductors, and the balance of the electrical system early during development, before hardware testing begins. For battery management systems and power electronics–based systems such as motor drives, power converters, and inverters, fast closed-loop simulation enables power electronics engineers to evaluate and verify their design choices before a controller is implemented.
Power electronics simulation should be considered for the following tasks:
Power electronics simulation with Simulink® lets you model complex topologies with multiple switching devices using standard circuit components. You can run fast simulations with average models or ideal switching behavior, or use detailed nonlinear switching models for parasitics and detailed design. Unlike general-purpose circuit simulators such as SPICE, power electronics simulation with Simulink provides the following capabilities for control design, optimization-based studies, and automatic code generation from simulation models: