The Ultimate Simulation Environment for Power Electronics and Motor Drives EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE • Fast simulation speed • Design solutions for motor drive and HEV • Intuitive and easy to use systems • Comprehensive motor drive library • SPICE engine for SPICE model support and device-level simulation • Flexible control simulation • Support of Texas Instruments’ InstaSPIN • Custom C code motor control alg orithm • Automatic code generation for DSP hardware • Link to 3rd-party software POWERSYS - Distributor of PSIM Software With fast simulation and friendly user interface, PSIM provides Our modules fuel the possibilities of power electronics design. a powerful and efficient environment for all your power Select your modules and propel your innovation forwards. electronics and motor drive simulation needs. FRIENDLY USER INTERFACE • SPICE • ModCoupler-VHDL & ModCoupler-Verilog SPICE SIMULATION Support for SPICE models and SPICE simulation Co-simulation with ModelSim® for VHDL & Verilog support PSIM’s graphic user interface is intuitive and very easy to use. While PSIM is ideally suited for system-level and control A circuit can be set up and edited quickly. Simulation results simulation, SPICE excels in device-level simulation, and is good can be analyzed using various post-processing functions in for analysis of a particular device in detail (for example, turn-on/ • Motor Drive • PsimBook Exercise the waveform display program Simview. In addition, PSIM is turn-off transients), or for gate drive circuit studies. With both the Adjustable speed drives & motion control Unified documentation & simulation environment interactive. It allows users to monitor simulation waveforms and PSIM engine and SPICE engine in one integrated environment, change parameters on-the-fly. This makes it extremely easy to users will be able to switch between these two types of • Digital Control • SmartCtrl fine tune a system until desired performance is achieved. simulations easily, and take full advantage of vast SPICE models Digital control systems in z-domain available in the industry. Controller design software specifically for power electronics applications. • SimCoupler FAST SPEED AND ROBUST ENGINE Co-simulation with Matlab/Simulink® PSIM is one of the fastest simulators for power electronics. It is AC SWEEP ANALYSIS capable of simulating large and complex power converter and AC sweep analysis (or frequency response analysis) is an • Thermal control systems in a short time. Besides, PSIM’s simulation engine important tool in designing control loops. While many simulation Quick power loss calculation is very robust, and it does not have the convergence problem software require a circuit to be represented by average models from which many other simulation software suffer. first before performing AC sweep, PSIM is capable of performing • Renewable Energy AC sweep with the circuit as it is in switchmode. This makes it Solar/wind power & energy storage systems particularly convenient to determine circuit impedances, open- loop frequency response, and closed-loop bandwidth and CUSTOM C CODE stability. In addition, a new multisine AC sweep method greatly • SimCoder speeds up the AC sweep simulation time. Automatic code generation PSIM supports custom C code through a built-in C interpreter and external DLL blocks. This allows users to implement virtually any model or control circuitry in C code, and significantly expands • Hardware Targets PSIM’s flexibility. Code generation for TI’s F2833x, F2803x, F2802x, F2806x series DSP Induction motor drive system with field oriented control APPLICATIONS • HEV Design Suite FLEXIBLE CONTROL SIMULATION • Switchmode power supplies Hybrid electric vehicle powertrain system design One of PSIM’s key strengths is its ability to simulate complex • Electric motor drives control circuitry. A control circuit can be represented in various • Motor Control Design Suite forms: analog op. amp. circuit, s-domain or z-domain transfer • Industrial and consumer electronics Motor drive system controller design function block diagram, C code, or in Simulink®. The control • Power management library provides a comprehensive list of function blocks, making it possible to build any control circuit quickly and conveniently. • Renewable energy • MagCoupler & MagCoupler-RT • Automotive and transportation Co-simulation with JMAG® and link to JMAG-RT files for finite element analysis • Aerospace and defense • PIL Processor-In-the-Loop simulation with TI DSP Voltage loop bandwidth measurement of multi-output flyback power supply Learn more at powersimtech.com Learn more at powersimtech.com 2 3 SPICE MODULE MOTOR DRIVE MODULE A winning combination of device Simulating motor drive systems simulation and system simulation FEATURES & BENEFITS made easy FEATURES & BENEFITS PSIM’s SPICE Module, powered by CoolCAD have the proof of concept quickly in PSIM, • Supports SPICE models The Motor Drive Module provides an In addition, provision is given so that one • Comprehensive electric Electronics’ CoolSPICE engine, provides the and then zoom in to study a circuit in detail easy and effective way of modeling and can connect custom-built machine or load capability to run SPICE simulation in the in SPICE. and simulation simulating motor drive systems. models to the models in PSIM, providing machine library and PSIM environment. great flexibility. Functions are provided such that SPICE • Seamless transition between Analysis and design of a motor drive mechanical load library While PSIM is excellent in system-level and netlists from other SPICE software can be PSIM simulation and SPICE system is often a challenging task, due to The example below illustrates PSIM’s • Easy setup of motor drive control simulation, SPICE excels in device easily imported and simulated in PSIM. simulation the complexity in machine modeling and capability to simulate motor drive systems. systems simulation. With a vast library of SPICE controller design. Such a task becomes The system consists of a PMSM drive with In addition, CoolCAD Electronics is SPICE • Supports standard SPICE considerably easier with the Motor Drive • Commonly used power and models for industrial devices, provides recognized as the industrial leader in wide current and speed control. Maximum- the ability to analyze a particular device in netlist from other software Module. Commonly used electric machine Torque-Per-Ampere control is implemented band gap device modeling. The SPICE control blocks available detail, for example, the turn-on and turn-off models, mechanical load models, and to achieve the maximum torque possible. Module will provide the capability to • Motor control loop stability transient of a semiconductor device. control blocks (such as Maximum-Torque- Also, for this system, field weakening control simulate power converters using SiC and Per-Ampere Control and Field Weakening must be used at high rotor speed as the dc analysis With the PSIM engine and SPICE engine in GaN devices. Control blocks) are provided. Using Motor bus voltage would not be high enough to one integrated environment, users will be The combination of PSIM and SPICE provides Drive Module elements and other library maintain a normal operation. able to switch easily between running PSIM the ultimate environment for all your design elements, one can set up a motor drive simulation and SPICE simulation. Such a needs. system quickly and conveniently. combination gives users the capability to MOSFET in SPICE model ********************************** * MOSFET: Infineon IPB020NE7N3 75V 120A 2.0mohm 108nF Above: Simulation waveforms of the ********************************** .model IPB020NE7N3 VDMOS (Rg=2.7 Vto=4.2 Rd=740u Rs=657u Rb=987u motor currents, rotor speed, and motor + Kp=482.9 Lambda=0.03 Cgdmin=68p Cgdmax=3.44n developed torque. + A=0.2 Cgs=10.64n Cjo=7.77n M=0.27 Is=207.3p VJ=0.9 N=1.16 + TT=40n mfg=Infineon Vds=75 Ron=2.0m Qg=155n) Left: PMSM drive system with maximum- torque-per-ampere control and field Left: Phase-shifted full-bridge weakening control. DC-DC power supply Above: MOSFET dialog box Below: MOSFET SPICE model Learn more at powersimtech.com Learn more at powersimtech.com 4 5 DIGITAL CONTROL MODULE SIMCOUPLER MODULE Validating digital controllers Making best use of PSIM ® quickly for microcontroller/DSP FEATURES & BENEFITS and Matlab/Simulink FEATURES & BENEFITS • Easy to use The SimCoupler Module provides the link Setup of the co-simulation with SimCoupler • Easy to set up co-simulation implementation for co-simulation between PSIM and Matlab/ is easy and straightforward, with minimum with minimum user input With higher performance and lower check the performance and stability of the • Commonly used digital control Simulink. With the link, part of a system can user input. be implemented in PSIM, and the rest of the cost, microcontrollers/DSPs have been digital control loop, and debug the circuit blocks provided, such as digital The example below shows a PMSM drive • Waveform display in both PSIM increasingly used in converter control in thoroughly in a simulation environment filters and PI controller system in Matlab/Simulink. system with the power converter and motor and Simulink power supply and motor drive applications, rather than in the hardware which is much • Utility tool available to convert The SimCoupler Module allows Matlab/ in PSIM and control in Simulink. In PSIM, • Best use of both software in a requiring control algorithms to be more difficult and time consuming. Simulink users to make full