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 menus and toolbar
    This section describes schematic editor menus and toolbar
  - Library Explorer
    Description of the Library Explorer panel in Schematic Editor.
  - Model explorer
    This section describes model explorer
  - Device explorer
    This section describes device explorer
  - Quick insert dialog
    Description of the Quick Insert dialog feature in Schematic Editor that allows for quickly finding and inserting new components into your model.
  - Subsystem elements
    This section describes subsystem elements
  - Mask
    Description of component masks and their functionalities
  - Handlers
    Handlers are functions that are executed at specified action points.
    - Model handlers
      Description of the Model handler functions available in Schematic Editor and Schematic API
    - Component and mask handlers
      Description of the Component handler functions available in Schematic Editor and Schematic API
    - Property handlers
      Description of the Property handler functions available in Schematic Editor and Schematic API
  - Disable schematic parts
    This section describes how some elements on schematic can be disabled and later enabled.
  - Schematic Icon API
    Overview of the Schematic Icon API functionality
  - Execution rate visualization
    This section describes execution rate visualization
  - Compilation status dock
    This section describes compilation status dock
  - Undo/redo history window
    This section describes undo/redo history window
  - Creating wires and wire nodes (junctions)
    This section describes creating wires and wire nodes (junctions)
  - Replacing wires with Electric Tags or Signal From/Goto pairs
    This Schematic Editor action allows tags to be quickly generated from connected wires.
  - Auto-connect component terminals
    Description of the behavior of the auto-connection feature
  - Electrical component vectorization
    Describes how specific electrical-type (PE) atomic components can be vectorized.
  - Single-line diagram representation
    Describes how the Electric Bus and similar components can be used in conjunction with the Electrical component vectorization feature to create single-line diagrams (SLD).
  - C code export
    This section describes C code export option.
  - Signal selection dialog
    Overview of how to select specific signal references for a model component
  - User Defined Libraries
    This section describes user defined libraries
  - Model Settings
    This section describes the Model Settings dialog in Schematic Editor and its options.
  - Alignment assistant
    Description of how to enable, disable and use the alignment assistant
  - Generating an API script from a selection
    Description of how to generate an API script from a selection in Schematic Editor.
- 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
- 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.

Handlers

Handlers are functions that are executed at specified action points.

Handlers can be divided into the following groups: