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.
  - Schematic areas
    Description of how to create areas in a schematic to improve visual organization.
  - Disable schematic parts
    This section describes how some elements on schematic can be disabled and later enabled.
  - Component bypass
    Description of how to bypass components in a schematic.
  - 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
    - What is a user library
      This section describes what is a user library
    - How to create a library
      This section describes how to create a library
    - Editing a library
      This section describes editing a library
    - Exporting library
      Description of the library export functionality in Typhoon HIL Control Center
    - Library specifics
      This section describes library specifics
    - Loading a library in Library Explorer
      This section describes loading a library in Library Explorer
    - Library structure
      This section describes library structure
    - Multi-file user libraries
      This section describes how to create a user library out of separate files
  - 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.

Library structure

This section describes library structure

Components in a user library can be placed at root level or be organized using Category components. A Category component is a specialized subsystem component used exclusively in libraries. It can contain any number of components including other category component instances.

All non-category components are treated as library components and will appear as leaf elements in the Library browser tree.

Important: Connections between library components are ignored by the Library browser.

Important: It is highly recommended to mask all the subsystem components located at the category root level.