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
- 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
  - Command Toolbar
    Description of the Command Toolbar in HIL SCADA
  - Library Explorer Dock
    This section describes library dock
  - Panel Explorer Dock
    This section describes panel explorer dock
  - Model Explorer
    This section describes the HIL SCADA Model Explorer.
  - Namespace Explorer
    This section describes Namespace Explorer
  - Model Settings Dock
    This section describes model settings dock
  - Panel Tabs
    This section describes panel tabs
    - Panel Widgets
      This section describes panel widgets
    - Widget Errors
      This section describes widget errors
    - Panel Initialization
      This section describes panel initialization
      - Local Namespace
        This section describes the Local Namespace feature available in HIL SCADA.
    - Capture/Scope Widget
      Description of the Capture/Scope Widget in HIL SCADA
  - Message Log Dock
    This section describes message log dock
  - History Dock
    This section describes history dock
  - Status Bar
    This section describes the status bar
  - HIL SCADA Widget Library
    This section provides an overview of Widget Library support in HIL SCADA.
  - HIL standalone boot configuration
    This section describes HIL standalone boot configuration
  - HIL SCADA Command-line Options
    This section describes options for starting HIL SCADA from command line
  - Standalone HIL SCADA
    This section briefly describes Standalone HIL SCADA tool
  - HIL SCADA External Mode
    Brief description of the External mode feature available in HIL SCADA
- 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.

Local Namespace

This section describes the Local Namespace feature available in HIL SCADA.

Local Namespace assigns a namespace for only a selected group of widgets. In this way, the selected group of widgets can be decoupled from the rest of the global namespace as an independent, portable group. The local namespace can be specified in the properties dialog of the Sub-Panel and Group widgets (Figure 1).

Figure 1. Group widget local namespace settings

Note: Variables and functions defined in the local namespace of Sub-Panel and Group widgets will be available for use in all Macro and Expression scripts of the components managed by those widgets.

Note: For resolving nested local namespaces (a Group widget inside another Group widget for example) parent/child relationship is used. All variables specified in the parent local namespace are available in all of its children local namespaces. In the same way, global namespace variables are available in all local namespaces.

Note: All local namespaces are initialized on simulation start triggered by the Level 3 namespace initialization. In case any local namespace is changed while the simulation is running, use the Re-initialize namespace action from the toolbar to reinitialize global and all local namespaces.