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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.
Communication
Summary of the Communication components available in Schematic Editor.
Proprietary Protocols
Brief overview of proprietary protocols supported by Typhoon HIL
Egston SFP Link
This section provides basic information regarding accessing and communication between Typhoon HIL device and EGSTON COMPISO Amplifier System.

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.
      - Implementation information
        Basic information about the implementation of communication protocols in the Typhoon HIL toolchain
      - IEEE C37.118 protocol
        Description of the IEEE C37.118 protocol and its implementation in the Typhoon HIL toolchain.
      - CAN Bus protocol
        Description of the CAN Bus protocol implementation in the Typhoon HIL toolchain.
      - CAN FD Protocol
        Description of the CAN FD protocol implementation in the Typhoon HIL toolchain.
      - CANopen protocol
        Description of the basics of the CANopen protocol and its implementation in the Typhoon HIL toolchain.
      - CHAdeMO protocol
        Description of the CHAdeMO 1.0 protocol implementation in the Typhoon HIL toolchain.
      - J1939 Protocol
        Description of the J1939 protocol implementation in the Typhoon HIL toolchain.
      - DNP3 Outstation
        Description of the DNP3 Outstation component in Schematic Editor.
      - ISO 15118-2 Protocol
        Description of the ISO 15118-2 Protocol implementation in the Typhoon HIL toolchain.
      - ISO 15118-20 Protocol
        Description of the ISO 15118-20 protocol implementation in the Typhoon HIL toolchain.
      - EtherCAT Slave Device
        This section describes an EtherCAT Slave Device
      - EtherNET/IP
        Description of the EtherNET/IP protocol and its implementation in the Typhoon HIL toolchain.
      - Ethernet Variable Exchange
        This section provides basic information regarding Ethernet Variable Exchange (ETH VE) protocol components.
      - IEC 60870 Server
        Description of the IEC 60870 protocol implementation in the Typhoon HIL toolchain.
      - IEC 61850 GOOSE protocol
        Description of the IEC 61850 GOOSE protocol implementation in the Typhoon HIL toolchain.
      - IEC 61850 MMS Protocol
        Description of the IEC 61850 MMS protocol implementation in the Typhoon HIL toolchain.
      - IEC 61850 Sampled Values protocol
        Description of the IEC 61850 Sampled Values (SV) protocol implementation in the Typhoon HIL toolchain.
      - Modbus Device
        Description of the Modbus Device component in Schematic Editor.
      - Modbus Client
        Description of the Modbus Client component in Schematic Editor.
      - OPC UA Server
        This section describes the OPC UA Server implementation in the Typhoon HIL toolchain.
      - PROFINET IO Device
        Description of the PROFINET IO Device component in Schematic Editor.
      - SPI protocol
        Description of the SPI protocol and its implementation in the Typhoon HIL toolchain.
      - SunSpec Modbus Device
        Description of the SunSpec Modbus device in Schematic Editor
      - SFP Simulation Link
        Description of the SFP Simulation Link protocol and its implementation in the Typhoon HIL Toolchain.
      - Serial
        Description of the Serial communication protocol and its implementation in the Typhoon HIL Toolchain.
      - Proprietary Protocols
        Brief overview of proprietary protocols supported by Typhoon HIL
        Egston SFP Link
        This section provides basic information regarding accessing and communication between Typhoon HIL device and EGSTON COMPISO Amplifier System.
    - 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.
    - 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.

Egston SFP Link

This section provides basic information regarding accessing and communication between Typhoon HIL device and EGSTON COMPISO Amplifier System.

This component transmits and receives data over the SFP port (upper port on HIL404 and HIL606 devices - HW setup) using Egston SFP Link protocol and provides the link status. The output port of the Egston SFP Link component provides the Egston SFP Link physical status where one (1) means that the link is up.

Important: Egston SFP Link and SFP Simulation Link are mutually exclusive on HIL404 devices as they use the same SFP port!

Typhoon HIL Implementation

Currently, Egston SFP Link is supported by the following devices:HIL404 and HIL606 (via custom firmware configuration only).

Table 1. Egston SFP Link component
Component	Component dialog	Component properties
Egston SFP Link		HIL is master CSU type Operation mode Send channel signal Execution rate

Component properties are described in Table 2.

Table 2. Egston SFP Link properties
Property name	Description
HIL is master	Allows to select if HIL is master or slave.
CSU type	This property allows you to choose group of 4 or 6 amplifiers, GAMP4 or GAMP6, respectivley.
Operation mode	Allows you to select desired operation mode, which is defined by CSU/GAMP type, the Application type and the source type.
Send channel signal	Depending on the CSU type you will either have 4 or 6 channels. These properties allow you to select signals from the model which you want to send to Egston device.

Ports

Input (sfp_reset_n)
- Negative reset. Value which resets Egston SFP communication.
  - Supported types: uint, int, real.
  - Vector support: no.
Input (pwm_enable)
- Value which enables or disables Egston component send channels.
  - Supported types: uint, int, real.
  - Vector support: no.

Output (link_status)
- Output of the component is the physical link status.
  - Supported types: uint, int, real.
  - Vector support: no

Virtual HIL support

Virtual HIL currently does not support this protocol. When using a Virtual HIL environment (e.g. when running the model on a local computer), inputs to this component will be discarded and outputs from this component will be zeroed.