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  3. Schematic Editor Component Libraries

    Detailed functionality and use of the pre-built Component Libraries in Schematic Editor

  4. 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.

  5. Converters - extras

    This section describes additional components related to converter modeling.

  • 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's 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.

          • Parallel Converter DTV Detector

            Description of the Parallel Converter DTV Detector component in Schematic Editor

          • Output Voltage Comparator

            This reference section describes the Output Voltage Comparator Signal.

          • Control for MMC Leg - NLC

            This section describes the Control for MMC Leg- NLC which can be used for controlling the MMC Leg Switching Function.

          • Thermal network

            The Thermal Network component implements a signal processing model of a thermal system that can be parametrized with either Cauer or Foster thermal model data.

        • HIL Connect Interfaces

          This section describes the HIL Connect Interface components in Typhoon HIL's 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 components library in Typhoon HIL's 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

        • 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

    • Script Editor

      This section describes Script Editor

    • Waveform Generator

      This section describes the waveform generator tool in Typhoon HIL Control Center.

    • HIL Firmware Manager

      This section describes HIL Firmware Manager

    • 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.

Converters - extras

This section describes additional components related to converter modeling.

The current version of Schematic Editor offers the following features:

  • Parallel Converter DTV Detector component
  • Output Voltage Comparator signal
  • Control for MMC Leg - NLC component
  • Thermal network component
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