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Typhoon HIL Documentation
  • Typhoon HIL Application Notes
  • Typhoon HIL Software Manual
  • Typhoon HIL Hardware Manual
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  2. Typhoon HIL Software Manual
  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. Signal processing components

    This section describes the general properties of all signal processing components in the Typhoon HIL Schematic Editor core library.

  • 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.

        • 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.

          • Discrete

            This sub-category contains twelve discrete components: Accumulator, Integrator, Unit Delay, Delay, Transport Delay, Rate Limiter, Differentiator, FIR Filter, Discrete Transfer Function, Discrete State Space, Hysteresis Function, and Low Pass Filter.

          • Extras

            Summary of the Extra components in Schematic Editor

          • Functions and Tables

            Summary of the Functions and Tables components available in Schematic Editor.

          • Logical

            Summary of the Logical components available in Schematic Editor.

          • Math operations

            Summary of the Math Operations components available in Schematic Editor.

          • Power Measurements

            Summary of the Power Measurements components available in Schematic Editor.

          • Power Systems

            Summary of the Power Systems components available in Schematic Editor.

          • Sinks

            Summary of the Sinks components available in Schematic Editor.

          • Signal Processing Sources

            Summary of the Source components available through the Signal Processing category of the Schematic Editor core library.

          • System

            Summary of the System signal processing components available in Schematic Editor.

        • 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.

Signal processing components

This section describes the general properties of all signal processing components in the Typhoon HIL Schematic Editor core library.

Signal processing functionalities are divided into the following categories:

  • Signal Processing Sources
  • Sinks
  • Math operations
  • Discrete
  • Functions and Tables
  • Logical
  • System
  • Power Measurements
  • Power Systems
  • Extras

Components in each category as well as their description and features are given in their respective sub-sections.

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