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 in | IEEE transactions on power electronics Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 2443 - 2455 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
New York
IEEE
01.03.2016
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) |
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Online Access | Get full text |
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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 |