PECS. An efficacious solution for simulating switched networks with nonlinear elements

Author

Li, Duwang ; Tymerski, Richard ; Ninomiya, Tamotsu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Portland State Univ., OR, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

274

Abstract

PECS (Power Electronics Circuit Simulator) enables the time-domain simulation of switched networks that may contain nonlinear elements. Focus has been placed not only in obtaining high speed but also in achieving a very high degree of accuracy. A set of optimized computer algorithms that have been incorporated into PECS to achieve these objectives are explained. Examples run, which include a PFC (power factor converter) containing a multiplier/divider element, have shown over an order of magnitude speed advantage over other leading approaches

Keywords

circuit simulation; nonlinear network analysis; power electronics; power engineering computing; software packages; switched networks; time-domain analysis; PECS; Power Electronics Circuit Simulator; nonlinear switched networks simulation; optimized computer algorithms; power factor converter; simulation speed; time-domain simulation; Algorithm design and analysis; Analytical models; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Nonlinear equations; Piecewise linear techniques; Power electronics; Power semiconductor switches; Signal processing algorithms; Switching circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics Specialists Conference, 2000. PESC 00. 2000 IEEE 31st Annual

Conference_Location

Galway

ISSN

0275-9306

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5692-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESC.2000.878856

Filename

878856