Rapid Control Prototyping Solutions

for Power Electronics, Drive, and

Power Systems

New Features & Advantages

Key Take-Aways

Find errors at the start of your project to savetime, costs and increase overall quality.

Easily build real-time demonstration and experimental setups; tweak and tune it with efficient tools.

Efficiently address power electronics, electric drive and power systems with OPAL-RT RCP solution.

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What is Rapid Control Prototyping ?

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Model DesignSignal Acquisition & DisplayParameter change

Real-time model execution on CPUFast I.O and signal processingCommunicationReal-time data logging

Assess control designs in a representative environment.

PlantWorkstation Real-Time Computer

Electronic Control Unit

Automatic Code

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Model DesignI/O configuration

Rapid design iteration

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Real-Time Execution

Test(easy parameter

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Application Highlights: Electric Motor Drive

Electric Motor Drive Control(PMSM, BLDC, Induction…)

• Range extender R&D development (electric vehicle program)• Used for engineering of new products (control algorithm validation)• Saves expensive prototype ECU development, allows rapid control validation

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Electric Drives

Hybrid Electric Drive Electric Steering Electrical actuators

Application Highlights: Modular Multilevel Converters

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• Best of the bread for MMC : • Cycle time of 20µs, 2500 IO channels, all synchronized• Supports Half-Bridge and Full-Bridge• Optical interface (option)

• Perfect tool for practical validation (R&D) and product development• Focus on algorithms design, not complex low-level implementation issues

Cell & Pole Controls

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High Voltage Power Electronics

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High Voltage Power Electronics

Application Highlights: Multi-terminal / multi-fed HVDC

Application Highlights: PMU and Relay Prototyping

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GPS clock

Power Grid

Real-Time EMT Simulation

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Protection Relay PMU SCADA Energy Management

Systems

Power Systems & Smart Grids

• IEC 61850, IEC 60870-5-104, DNP 3• MODBUS, Ethernet, OPC

Demo time !!!

Value

Assess ideas in a representiveenvironment

Run your model in real-time

without coding

Interact in real-time with

control model

Tune and fix, iterate rapidly

Reuse for several projects

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What we need

Low-latency execution (model + IO)

Handle large IO count in a flexible way (MMC)

Connectivity with IEC61850, C37.118…

Tools to capture, analyze, tweak and tune on-the-fly

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Fast and versatile architecture

Workstation MulticoreCPU

FPGA firmware System Under Control

Ethernet PCIExpress

Analog I/O

Digital I/O

Real-Time Computer

System-Level Communication Options

CAN, RS232, RS485, LIN, ARINC, MILSTD 1553Ethernet, IEC 61850 GOOSE & SV, DNP 3.0, C37.118, …

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Flexible I/O Connectivity

FPGA

AnalogADCResolver Sinus/Cosinus InputResolver excitation inputVoltage SensorCurrent SensorTemperature Sensor

DigitalQuadrature encoder (A,B,Z)Hall EffectSynchronous Serial interface (SSI)Serial Peripheral interface (SPI)Custom protocol

AnalogDACResolver excitation output

DigitalGate Firing Out (PWM, SVM, …)Synchronous Serial interface (SSI)Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)

FPGA FirmwareInput/Ouput managementGeneric control functions, such as electric motor driveSpecific / user-made signal processing or control logics

Features : • ADC – PWM synchonization• Sensors setting• Carrier wave mode• Multi-carrier PWM (phase-shift method)• Dead-time setting (10ns resolution)• Interleaving (for multilevel topologies)• Safety output in case of fault

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Easy to use (Simulink blockset interface)

Flexible PWM settings

Accurate

Extrem performance

– Up to 120 KHz switching frequency

– Multidrive configuration

RCP-DRIVE generic FPGA Firmware

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Compatible with Xilinx System Generator

Develop faster with ready-made functions

Access to I/O, exchange data with CPU

Supports floating point (Virtex 6 version)

RT Datalogging of FPGA signals

Prototype Your Own FPGA Functions

OPAL-RT RT-XSG blockset : • CPU data exchange• IO Hardware access• Frequency Measurement• Mean-Square & Average• Quadrature Decoder• Resolver In• …

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A must-have for fast controls found in powerelectronics and protection applications

Real-time logging of CPU/FPGA/IO signals

Down to 10ns resolution

Stored in MATLAB format

Accurate Datalogging for SimplerDebugging

Internal Hard Drive

Advanced features :• High frequency sampling• External, internal or manual triggered

Scalable IO

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OP5600Workstation

OPAL-RT Dedicated Solutions

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Electric Drives

Hybrid Electric Drive Electric Steering Electrical actuators

Teaching Laboratory

Electric Drive 250W kit Doubly Fed Induction

Generators 2KW kit

High Power Industrial drives

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Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy Resources

Storage Smart Home

Automation

Protection Relay PMU SCADA Energy Management

Systems

Power Systems & Smart Grids

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