Design Tools for Rapid Multidomain Virtual Prototyping of Power Electronic Systems

The need for multidisciplinary virtual prototyping in power electronics has been well established, however, design tools capable of facilitating a rapid iterative virtual design process do not exist. A key challenge in developing such tools is identifying and developing modeling techniques which can...

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Published inIEEE transactions on power electronics Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 2443 - 2455
Main Authors Evans, Paul L., Castellazzi, Alberto, Johnson, C. Mark
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.03.2016
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Computer aided analysis
Design automation
Design engineering
Electric power generation
Electromagnetic analysis
Electronic systems
Electronics
Finite difference analysis
Integrated circuit modeling
Iterative methods
Mathematical model
Modeling
Numerical models
Order reduction
Power converter
Power electronics
Power supply
Semiconductor device modeling
Simulation
Software
Solid modeling
Three dimensional
Three-dimensional displays
Time domain analysis
Virtual prototyping
power converter
modeling
electromagnetic analysis
finite difference analysis
time domain analysis
power electronics
Computer aided analysis
design automation
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Summary:The need for multidisciplinary virtual prototyping in power electronics has been well established, however, design tools capable of facilitating a rapid iterative virtual design process do not exist. A key challenge in developing such tools is identifying and developing modeling techniques which can account for 3-D geometrical design choices without unduly affecting simulation speed. This challenge has been addressed in this paper using model order reduction techniques and a prototype power electronic design tool incorporating these techniques is presented. A relevant electrothermal power module design example is then used to demonstrate the performance of the software and model order reduction techniques. Five design iterations can be evaluated, using 3-D inductive and thermal models, under typical operating and start-up conditions on a desktop PC in less than 15 min. The results are validated experimentally for both thermal and electrical domains.
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ISSN:0885-8993
1941-0107
DOI:10.1109/TPEL.2015.2437793