Object oriented design of a power electronics circuit simulator

The features of object oriented programming (OOP) are explained and contrasted with the traditional procedural programming paradigm. Incorporating any or all of the OOP features of encapsulation, polymorphism and inheritance results in faster, less error prone, code implementation which promotes code reuse with the further benefit of ease of maintainability. The basic functions of a power electronics circuit simulator are described. A class structure for the simulator is outlined. This class structure has been successfully implemented using the C++ language which supports OOP. Experience with this project has indicated that C++ shines in numerical applications in comparison with FORTRAN and C.