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
  - 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.

HIL standalone boot configuration

This section describes HIL standalone boot configuration

All Typhoon HIL devices can be used in the standalone mode with no connection to the computer and/or HIL SCADA application. In the standalone mode, the HIL will “self-boot” upon device power up. Self-boot means that the selected model with associated settings (stored on the HIL device in the configuration file) will be automatically loaded and started. When the HIL self-boots, it can be accessed from HIL SCADA in the usual way, although HIL SCADA will be unaware of the self-booted model. This means that further manipulations of the self-booted model are not possible from HIL SCADA.

To configure the HIL device for standalone (self) booting, follow the steps listed below:

Open the appropriate model in HIL SCADA, and configure it according to your needs (sources, outputs, etc.). You can also load the appropriate settings (.runx) file.
When the model has been properly configured, open the Setup Standalone Boot dialog by going to Model->Upload standalone configuration
The dialog in Figure 1 will pop up. The dialog consists of two main parts. Upload model enables you to select to which configuration slot (up to eight boot configurations are supported) you want to upload the current configuration. The second part (Boot configuration) defines the HIL boot mode. There are three options for Boot configuration:
- standalone boot option is disabled (Disable standalone boot),
- standalone boot is enabled and the boot configuration is defined from software (Boot using selected model)
After the configuration file has been uploaded and the boot mode has been selected, proceed to the next step.
Close HIL SCADA and restart the HIL device (power off/on). The uploaded configuration should become active shortly after the HIL device power up.

To change the standalone boot configuration, open HIL SCADA and follow steps 2 through 5. When you open HIL SCADA and load a new model, the simulation will be stopped and you will be able to use the HIL device in the usual way.

Figure 1. Setup standalone boot dialog