Physics-based power device models in SABER-implementation issues

Author

Kolessar, R. ; Nee, H.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Power Eng., R. Inst. of Technol., Stockholm, Sweden

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

23

Abstract

In this paper, the implementation issues of physics-based power device models in the SABER circuit simulator through the MAST High Description Language (HDL) are discussed. The possibility to use dynamical if-statements in the system matrix (equations section) of a MAST template is presented. By means of this implementation method, systems of differential equations for boundary value problems can be efficiently implemented and solved in SABER. To illustrate the method, the implementation of a physics-based power diode model is taken as an example. Simulation results using this model are presented to demonstrate the efficiency and numerical stability of the method

Keywords

boundary-value problems; differential equations; digital simulation; electronic engineering computing; numerical stability; power semiconductor diodes; semiconductor device models; MAST High Description Language; SABER; boundary value problems; differential equations; dynamical if-statements; efficiency; implementation issues; numerical stability; physics-based power device models; physics-based power diode model; system matrix; Boundary value problems; Circuit simulation; Differential algebraic equations; Differential equations; Diodes; Hardware design languages; Poisson equations; Power electronics; Power system modeling; Predictive models;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Power Electronics, 2000. COMPEL 2000. The 7th Workshop on

Conference_Location

Blacksburg, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6561-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIPE.2000.904685

Filename

904685