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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.
System
This section describes additional components in the System library in Schematic Editor
Subsystem
Description of the collection of the Subsystem 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.
    - 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
      - Electric tag
        Description of the Electric tag in Schematic Editor, intended to help better organize your schematic.
      - Electrical Bus
        Description of the Electrical Bus component in Schematic Editor, which allows the creation of a multidimensional terminal from a set of unidimensional terminals.
      - Electrical Bus Merger
        Describes the Electrical Bus Merger component in Schematic Editor.
      - Electrical Bus Selector
        Describes the Electrical Bus Selector component in Schematic Editor.
      - Output Settings
        Description of the Output Settings component in the Schematic Editor, which sets analog and/or digital outputs with corresponding signals from the model.
      - Signal From
        Description of the Signal From tag in Schematic Editor, intended to help better organize your schematic.
      - Signal Goto
        Description of the Signal Goto tag in Schematic Editor, intended to help better organize your schematic.
      - Subsystem
        Description of the collection of the Subsystem component 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.

Subsystem

Description of the collection of the Subsystem component in Schematic Editor.

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Description

Subsystem components can be used for storing multiple schematic elements in an independent block either for the purpose of simplifying complex schematics or when there is a logical separation between elements. Inputs and outputs from Subsystems are managed by Port components.

A Subsystem component can be created by placing an empty subsystem (preloaded with two electrical ports) from the Library (System -> Subsystem) in the schematic.

Another way to create a subsystem component is to select a part of the schematic and perform the Create subsystem from selection action, either by choosing it from the Edit menu or by right-clicking selected elements. A subsystem will be automatically created with all selected elements inside and with all the required ports.

For more information on how to use subsystems to simplify models as part of a multi-level modeling approach, please refer to the Subsystem elements page.