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DESIGN OF MOTOR DRIVES WITH PSIM

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What is PSIM
• Design & simulation for power electronics and motor drives

• PSIM is a design and simulation tool specifically for

power electronics and motor drives
• Easy-to-use design tools enable rapid development of
• Motor drives
• Power supplies
• EMI (Electromagnetic interference)
• Widely regard for:
• Simulation speed
• Accuracy of results
• Simulation robustness and dependable convergence

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Key Features and Advantages of PSIM

• Friendly and very easy to use.

• Fast, accurate and robust solver

• Powerful control simulation

Device/Circuit System/Control
Simulation Simulation
• Thermal Module for quick power loss
calculation
Activate, Embed
SPICE Matlab/
• Automatic code generation for hardware • Fast
implementation • Easy to use Simulink
• Affordable
• Design Suites to provide power and control • Expandable
solution directly from user specifications

• Link to 3rd-party software

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PSIM environment
The overall environment is shown in the figure below:

HIL/ Hardware
Design Simulation
Implementation

F2833x/03x/06x/02x/37x/004x
PE-Expert4 Targets
Thermal Module PSIM SimCoder
Texas Instruments
SmartCtrl
Power Auto Code DSP Development system
Thermal Analysis
Electronics Generation

Motor Control Design Suite Processor-In-the-

Loop
Texas Instruments
HEV Design Suite DSP Development system

Solar/Wind Energy
Power Supply Design Suite Control Motor Drives
Ultracapacitor
ModCoupler
Modules
Digital Control Motor Drive Renewable Energy ModelSim
EMI Design Suite
FPGA

FMI MagCoupler/ HIL

SimCoupler SPICE
MagCoupler-RT

3rd-party
Matlab/Simulink DSIM LTspice JMAG Typhoon-HIL
Software

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Many Parts of a Motor Drive

Motor Drive
Simulation

Power Hardware System

Control Design
Design Verification

Embedded Code
Motor Design Efficiency maps
Generation

Conducted/Radiated Embedded Code Mechanical

EMI Verification Co-sim

Power Design Control Design System Design

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PSIM EMI Simulation

Motor Drive using high frequency-Induction motor

Without EMI filter EMI filter

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Motor Control Design Suite

• The design suite can act as starting point for
many motor drive simulations
• It generates a working close loop FOC motor
drive from top level system parameters
• The output is easily customized and
modified for end user design goals
• Eliminates the need for end user know how of
power electronics and motor drives

Control design

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Motor Control Design Suite

• Analyze DC bus capacitor rms current on
close loop system
• Compare switching and conduction loss from
different devices
• Analyze control loop interactions with
complex mechanical loads
• Add non-ideal switch models, system
parasitics and cable models for conducted
and radiated EMI

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CASE STUDY
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Motor Drive Simulation with JMAG Interface

Example

Torque Power

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Motor Drive Simulation with JMAG Interface

Easy define control parameters Simulation Result: Current, Loss, Speed, …

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PSIM LICENSE UNIT

Psim Packages © Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved.

Product Power Supply Package Motor Drive Package Code Gen Package Interface Package

PSIM (with SPICE) x x

Motor x
Digital x x
Thermal x x
Renewable Energy x x

Power Supply DS x x
EMI DS x x
Motor Control DS x
HEV DS x

SimCoder x
F28xxx Targets x
PE-Expert4 Target x
PIL x

SimCoupler x
FMI x
MagCoupler x
MagCoupler-RT x
ModCoupler-VHDL x
ModCoupler-Verilog x

Altair Units 10 20 15 15
AU Bundle EDE, PE, MME, ENT EDE, PE, MME, ENT EDE, PE, MME, ENT EDE, PE, MME, ENT
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