HIL404
The most demanding power electronics applications for Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing are in the electric vehicle (EV) domain, namely: high performance motor drive, on-board charger and DC/DC converter, and battery management system (BMS).
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Achieving ultra-high fidelity real-time hardware in the loop simulation of these converters has been one of the most challenging real-time simulation goals. HIL404 is our solution to these challenges. Tailor built for EV motor drives with the most detailed inverter models that include switching device loss modeling, spatial-harmonic electric machine models, CAN connectivity, and plug-and-play interface towards 3rd party test automation tools via XIL ASAM compatible API – these complexities are no match for our HIL404 device emulator.
With burgeoning industry demand for ever higher switching frequency converters, new wide-bandgap semiconductors, new electric motor designs, and new topologies our engineers designed a product to push the limits of real-time simulation. It has never been so easy to run ultra high-fidelity and accurate models providing a whole new dimension of precision with our HIL404.
Our HIL404 device enables:
- – Down to a 25ns simulation time-step (typically 250ns).
– Down to a 200ns analog output update rate.
– A 3.5ns GDS oversampling on all digital inputs.
– Up to 4 processing cores.
– Real-time emulation of non-linear machines with spatial harmonics.
– Real-time emulation of semiconductor switches power losses.
– The most accurate Dual Active Bridge (DAB) converter model.
– The most accurate resonant DC/DC converter model.
– JMAG-RT FEM electric machine model import.
– HIL connectivity exploded: USB3.0, Ethernet, Gb/s serial link, JTAG, General Purpose IO (GPIO).
Seamless Integration and Compatibility
The HIL404 also offers seamless integration with Matlab/Simulink, PSIM, JMAG-RT, ANSYS and other model-based and physics-based simulation software enabling importing existing models from 3rd party simulation tools. Dive into our technical documentation to learn more about our complete product offering.
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HIL404 Technical details
| Processor | Up to 4 core |
| Channels | 16 x Analog inputs (AI); 16 x Analog outputs (AO); 32 x Digital inputs (DI); 32 x Digital outputs (DO) |
| GDS Oversampling resolution | 3.5ns |
| Resolution | 16 bit |
| Analog IO voltage range | ± 10 V |
| Built-in scope | Yes |
| Machine models support | Basic; Advanced |
| Connectivity | Ethernet; CAN; RS232; GPIO; HSSL; JTAG; USB 3.0 |
| Compatibility | HIL DSP Interface; HIL Breakout board; HIL dSpace Interface; HIL uGrid DSP Interface |
| Software | Typhoon HIL Control Center (THCC) |