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.
    - System architecture basics
      This section explains the basic elements of the Typhoon HIL system and their functions: FPGA Solver, User CPU, System CPU, Communication CPU, and Housekeeping CPU.
    - Electrical domain modeling principles and constraints
      This section describes electrical domain modeling principles and constraints.
    - Signal processing modeling principles
      This section describes signal processing modeling principles.
      - System Architecture
        This section describes system architecture
      - Execution rates
        Overview of how execution rates are handled within Typhoon HIL Control Center software
      - Signal types
        This section describes signal types
      - Component Sorting
        Description of how component order is sorted during the compilation step
      - Algebraic loops
        Overview of algebraic loops and their affect on THCC simulation.
  - 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.
  - 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.

Signal types

This section describes signal types

In terms of signal size, Signal Processing components currently support scalar and vector (one-dimensional array) signals.

In terms of data types, signals can hold one of the three supported data types:

real
int
unsigned int

Real type mapping to the real-time platform signals is defined in Schematic Editor via the Model/Schematic settings/Signal Processing settings/User SP settings menu path. Here, the real type mapping should be selected (other options include default, single precision, or double precision). Default settings are given in Table 1.

Other data types (integer and unsigned integer) are fixed, as specified in Table 1.

It is highly recommended to leave the default value to get the best performance.

Table 1. Default signal type mapping
Device	Real	Int	Unsigned int
All HIL devices	double (double precision)	int (32bit)	unsigned int (32 bit)

Some components have limitations on signals sizes and data types that they accept. Before a model is compiled, built-in validator checks signal terminals on all the components to ensure that they can accommodate the associated signals and reports errors in case of incompatibilities.