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Typhoon HIL Software Manual
Schematic Editor Component Libraries
Detailed functionality and use of the pre-built Component Libraries in Schematic Editor
Component library
This section describes the general properties of the component library in Schematic Editor, and provides a list of main types of components available in it.
Converters
This section provided a general description of converters in Schematic Editor, including converter control options, thermal model, variable delay, and the Measurements tab.
Single Phase Diode Rectifier
Description of the Single Phase Diode Rectifier component in Schematic Editor

Typhoon HIL Software Manual
- Introduction
  Overview of the categories covered in the Typhoon HIL Software Manual
- System Requirements
  Guidelines for the hardware and/or software environment necessary to run Typhoon HIL Control Center, for both PC and Test Server/Virtual Machine-based setups.
- Typhoon HIL Quick Start Guide
- Typhoon HIL Toolboxes
  List of the Toolbox Packages available in the Typhoon HIL software suite
- Connecting to your HIL device
  Guidelines on how to connect to a HIL device using either USB or Ethernet ports.
- Device Manager
  Device Manager is used to create, manipulate, and activate HIL device setups.
- Typhoon HIL Control Center
  This section provides a general description of Typhoon HIL Control Center and lists the main software components accessible from it, as well as additional software tools which can be invoked from its interface.
- Example Explorer
  General Description of the Typhoon HIL Control Center Example Explorer.
- Signal Access Management
  This feature allows you to change the visibility of signals in Schematic Editor and HIL SCADA
- Schematic Editor
  Introduction to the Schematic Editor tool in Typhoon HIL Control Center
- Schematic Editor Component Libraries
  Detailed functionality and use of the pre-built Component Libraries in Schematic Editor
  - Modeling principles
    This section describes modeling principles used in Typhoon HIL's software.
  - Model partitioning
    This section describes the general motivation and gives some practical guidelines for model partitioning.
  - Component library
    This section describes the general properties of the component library in Schematic Editor, and provides a list of main types of components available in it.
    - Circuit breakers
      This section describes the general properties of all circuit breaker components in Typhoon HIL Schematic Editor. There are currently 2 different circuit breaker components in Schematic Editor.
    - Communication
      Summary of the Communication components available in Schematic Editor.
    - Contactors
      This section describes the general properties of all contactor components in Typhoon HIL's Schematic Editor. There are currently 2 different contactor components in Schematic Editor.
    - Converters
      This section provided a general description of converters in Schematic Editor, including converter control options, thermal model, variable delay, and the Measurements tab.
      - Diode
        This reference section describes the properties and features of the Diode converter component of Typhoon HIL's software.
      - Thyristor
        This reference section describes the properties and features of the Thyristor converter component of Typhoon HIL's software.
      - IGBT
        This reference section describes the properties and features of the IGBT converter component of Typhoon HIL's software.
      - Buck
        Description of the Buck converter component in Schematic Editor
      - Three Level Buck
        Description of the Three Level Buck converter in Schematic Editor.
      - Boost
        Description of the Boost converter component in Schematic Editor
      - Symmetrical boost converter
        This section describes the symmetrical boost converter
      - Tapped inductor Buck - Boost converter
        This reference section describes the properties and features of the Tapped inductor Buck - Boost converter component in Schematic Editor
      - Tapped inductor Boost converter
        This reference section describes the properties and features of the Tapped inductor Boost converter component in Schematic Editor
      - Flyback converter
        This section describes flyback converters
      - Antiparallel thyristor leg
        This section describes antiparallel thyristor legs
      - AC Switch
        This section describes single-phase two-level inverter
      - Three-phase antiparallel thyristors
        This section describes three-phase antiparallel thyristors
      - Single Phase Diode Rectifier
        Description of the Single Phase Diode Rectifier component in Schematic Editor
      - Two Diode Full Wave Rectifier
        This section describes the Two Diode Full Wave Rectifier component in Typhoon HHIL schematic library.
      - Active Full Wave Rectifier
        This section describes Active Full Wave Rectifier
      - Single-phase thyristor rectifier
        This section describes single-phase thyristor rectifiers
      - Diode leg
        Description of the Diode Leg component in Schematic Editor
      - IGBT leg
        Description of the IGBT leg component in Schematic Editor
      - Single Phase Inverter
        This section describes single-phase two-level inverter
      - Single-phase two level H5 inverter
        This section describes single-phase two level H5 inverter
      - Single-phase two-level H6_5 inverter
        This section describes single-phase two-level H6_5 inverter
      - Single-phase H6 inverter
        This section describes single-phase H6 inverter
      - Three Phase Diode Rectifier
        Description of the Three Phase Diode Rectifier component in Schematic Editor
      - Three Phase Thyristor Rectifier
        Description of the Three Phase Thyristor Rectifier component in Schematic Editor
      - Three-phase to single-phase six pulse cycloconverter
        This section describes three-phase to single-phase six pulse cycloconverter
      - Vienna rectifier
        This section describes vienna rectifier
      - Three Phase Inverter
        Description of the Three phase two level inverter in Schematic Editor
      - Three Phase NPC Inverter
        This section describes three-phase three-level NPC inverters/rectifier
      - Three Phase T Type Inverter
        Description of the Three-phase three-level T-type inverter/rectifier component in Schematic Editor Library
      - Three Phase Three Level Flying Capacitor Inverter
        This section describes the three-phase three-level flying capacitor inverter component in Schematic Editor
      - Three Phase ANPC Inverter
        Description of the Three Phase ANPC Inverter component in Schematic Editor
      - Three phase two level current source inverter
        This section describes three phase two level current source inverter
      - Three phase asymmetric inverter
        This section describes three phase asymmetric inverter.
      - NPC Leg
        This section describes the NPC Leg block in Schematic Editor
      - ANPC Leg
        Description of the ANPC Leg component in Schematic Editor
      - NPC T Type Leg
        Description of the NPC T Type Leg component in Schematic Editor Library
      - Three Level Flying Capacitor Inverter Leg
        Description of the Three Level Flying Capacitor Inverter Leg component in Schematic Editor.
      - Four level flying capacitor leg
        This section describes the four level flying capacitor leg
      - Five level flying capacitor leg
        This section describes the five level flying capacitor leg
      - Seven level flying capacitor leg
        This section describes the seven level flying capacitor leg
      - Nine level flying capacitor leg
        Description of the Nine level flying capacitor leg component in Schematic Editor
      - ANPC Flying Capacitor Inverter 7 Level Leg
        Description of the seven-level ANPC flying capacitor inverter component in Schematic Editor Library
      - ANPC Flying Capacitor Inverter 9 Level Leg
        Description of the nine-level ANPC flying capacitor inverter component in Schematic Editor
      - MMC Leg - Switching Function
        This section describes the MMC Leg based on a switching function model.
      - HERIC converter
        This section describes HERIC converter
      - SEPIC converter
        Description of the SEPIC converter component in Schematic Editor
      - Cuk converter
        Description of the Cuk converter component in Schematic Editor
      - Three Phase Two-Level Current-Source Cycloconverter
        Description of the Three Phase Two-Level Current-Source Cycloconverter component in Schematic Editor
      - Quadratic Boost - R2P2 converter
        Description of the Quadratic Boost - R2P2 converter component in Schematic Editor
      - Quadratic Boost regular converter
        Description of the Quadratic Boost regular component in Schematic Editor
      - XY Converter
        Description of the XY Converter component in Schematic Editor, which can be modified to represent the whole family of XY converters.
      - Zeta Converter
        Description of the Zeta Converter component in Schematic Editor
      - Forward converter
        Description of the Forward Converter component in Schematic Editor
      - Buck - Boost converter
        This reference section describes the properties and features of the Buck - Boost converter component in Schematic Editor
      - Push - Pull Converter
        Description of the Push-Pull Converter component in Schematic Editor
      - Three Phase Quasi-Z-Source Inverter
        Description of the Three Phase Quasi-Z-Source Inverter component in the Schematic Editor Library.
      - Open Circuit H-Bridge
        Description of the Open Circuit H-Bridge component in Schematic Editor
      - Split-Source Inverter
        This section describes Split-Source inverter
      - Switched Capacitor Based 13L Inverter
        Description of the Switched Capacitor Based 13L Inverter component in the Schematic Editor Library.
      - Flying Capacitor Boost Converter
        Description of the Flying Capacitor Boost converter component in Schematic Editor.
      - 5L NE Type Converter
        This reference section describes the properties and features of the 5L NE Type Converter (Five Level New E Type Converter) component in Schematic Editor
      - Super Lift Luo
        Description of the Super Lift Luo converter in Schematic Editor.
      - Bidirectional Cuk converter
        Description of the Bidirectional Cuk converter in Schematic Editor.
      - Half-bridge Flyback converter
        This reference section describes the properties and features of the Half-bridge Flyback converter component in Schematic Editor
      - DC-DC Converter Solver
        This section provided a general description of DC-DC converter solver.
    - Converters - extras
      This section describes additional components related to converter modeling.
    - HIL Interfaces
      This section describes the HIL Interface components in Typhoon HIL Schematic Editor.
    - Machines
      This section describes the concepts used in the modeling and implementation of electrical machine components in Typhoon HIL Schematic Editor. There are currently 26 different machine components.
    - Measurements
      This section describes measurement components in Schematic Editor, including voltage and current measurements and RMS measurements.
    - Microgrid
      This section describes the Microgrid library category in Typhoon HIL Schematic Editor.
    - Circuit partitioning components
      This section describes the general properties of circuit properties components in Typhoon HIL's Schematic Editor, such as core couplings, device couplings, core markers, device markers, etc.
    - PHIL Interfaces
      This section describes the general properties of Power Hardware-In-the-Loop (PHIL) interface components.
    - Passive components
      This section describes passive components, including linear passive components, nonlinear passive components and variable passive components.
    - Port components
      Description of the collection of Port components in Schematic Editor, which are used to connect internal subsystem elements to the outside schematic.
    - Signal processing components
      This section describes the general properties of all signal processing components in the Typhoon HIL Schematic Editor core library.
    - Interface components
      This section describes the general properties of all interface components in Typhoon HIL's Schematic Editor, such as voltage and current measurements, signal-controlled sources, contactors, etc. There are currently 4 different interface components in Schematic Editor.
    - Sources
      This section describes source components in Schematic Editor, including independent sources, controlled sources, externally controlled sources, signal controlled sources, batteries, photovoltaic panels, constant power loads/sources, and engine-generator sources.
    - System
      This section describes additional components in the System library in Schematic Editor
    - Test Suite
      This section describes the Test Suite components of Typhoon HIL's built in Schematic Editor Library, which currently includes the grid simulator, DC measurements, anti-islanding container, and grid fault components.
    - Transformers
      This section describes the general properties of all transformer components in Typhoon HIL's Schematic Editor, such as an ideal transformer, a single-phase three winding transformer, a three-phase four winding transformer, etc. There are currently 9 different transformer components in Schematic Editor.
    - Transmission lines
      This section describes the general properties of all transmission line components in Typhoon HIL's Schematic Editor. There are currently 3 different transmission line components in Schematic Editor.
    - Component additional information
      This section describes the general properties of several components in Typhoon HIL's Schematic Editor whose feature set and capabilities require separate sections.
  - References
    This section describes references
- Third-party integrations
  This section provides an overview of the key third party integrations within Typhoon HIL's toolchain.
- HIL SCADA
  Description of the HIL SCADA tool in Typhoon HIL Control Center
- Waveform Generator
  This section describes the waveform generator tool in Typhoon HIL Control Center.
- Test and Calibration Tool
  Description of the Test and Calibration tool in Typhoon HIL Control Center
- TyphoonTest IDE
  This section describes TyphoonTest IDE
- Signal Analyzer
  This section describes the Signal Analyzer tool.
- Lookup table extraction tool
  Description of the Typhoon HIL Control Center tool for extracting characteristics (lookup tables) from datasheet graphs and charts into a format that can be imported by non-linear models.
- Package Manager
  Description of the Typhoon HIL Control Center tool for creating and managing Typhoon packages that contain Schematic examples, Schematic and widget libraries, documentation etc.
- Usage Logging
  This section briefly describes Typhoon HIL software logging feature.
- Python Interpreters
  Overview of how you can use Typhoon HIL Python Interpreters to further customize your test files.

Single Phase Diode Rectifier

Description of the Single Phase Diode Rectifier component in Schematic Editor

A block diagram and input parameters for the rectifier component are given in Table 1.

Table 1. Single Phase Diode Rectifier component in the Schematic Editor core library
component	component dialog window	component parameters
Single Phase Diode Rectifier		General Optimization for square AC voltage (enabled/disabled) Experimental Rectifier optimization (enabled/disabled) Weight =1

When Optimization for square AC voltage is checked, the rectifier behaviour is optimized for rapidly changing AC-side voltage, such as during a square signal.

When Rectifier optimization is checked, it optimizes the switching block to reduce the memory requirements of the model.

Note: The default state for Rectifier optimization property is enabled. In some corner cases, optimization should be disabled in order to increase accuracy.

A schematic block diagram of the Single Phase Diode Rectifier component is given in Figure 1, with its corresponding switch arrangement and naming.

Figure 1. The schematic block diagram of a Single Phase Diode Rectifier component with its corresponding switch naming