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
- Waveform Generator
  This section describes the waveform generator tool in Typhoon HIL Control Center.
  - PV file generator
    This section describes PV file generator
  - Source file generator
    This section describes source file generator
    - Command toolbar
      This section describes command toolbar
    - Plot area
      This section describes plot area
    - Plot modes toolbar
      This section describes plot modes toolbar
- 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.

Source file generator

This section describes source file generator

The Source file generator (Figure 1)is used for generating various types of signals which the user can change on the point level (Figure 2).

All signals generated in this tool will be saved in a custom .isg file format which can be used for initializing arbitrary sources inside the HIL SCADA tool.

There are also options for importing signal data from MATLAB .mat or .csv files and exporting current plotted signals to the same data formats.

Figure 1. Source file generator – initial state

Figure 2. Source file generator – generated and modified sinusoidal signal

The Source file generator consists of sections shown in Figure 2 and listed below:

Command toolbar - contains commands for inserting new signals (by configuring the appropriate signal template), importing/exporting, applying mathematical operations on selected points, specifying the time step and time unit. There is also a small signal info pane.
Plot area - here the user can directly manipulate signal data (on the point level) by selecting points, moving one or multiplying selected points, dis-annulling selected points, and so on.
Plot modes toolbar - contains commands for entering an appropriate plot mode. For example, the user can activate zoom on one of the selection modes. The Undo/Redo commands are also located on this toolbar.