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Typhoon HIL Software Manual
Schematic Editor Component Libraries
Detailed functionality and use of the pre-built Component Libraries in Schematic Editor
Component Library
Description of the general properties of the component library in Schematic Editor, including a list of the main types of components available in it.
Signal Processing Components
This section describes the general properties of all signal processing components in the Typhoon HIL Schematic Editor core library.
Logical Operations
Summary of the Logical components available in Schematic Editor.
Edge Detection
Description of the Edge Detection components in Schematic Editor, which detects rising, falling, or both rising and falling edges of its input signal.

Typhoon HIL Software Manual
- Introduction
  Overview of the categories covered in the Typhoon HIL Software Manual
- System Requirements
  Guidelines for the hardware and/or software environment necessary to run Typhoon HIL software, for both PC and Test Server/Virtual Machine-based setups.
- Typhoon HIL Quick Start Guide
  Instructions in this section should help you quickly install all necessary software tools and setup hardware components in order to run an example model, either in real-time simulation or TyphoonSim.
- Typhoon HIL Toolboxes
  List of the Toolbox Packages available in the Typhoon HIL software suite
- Connecting to your HIL device
  Guidelines on how to connect to a HIL device using either USB or Ethernet ports.
- Device Manager
  Device Manager is used to create, manipulate, and activate HIL device setups.
- Typhoon HIL Control Center
  This section provides a general description of Typhoon HIL Control Center and lists the main software components accessible from it, as well as additional software tools which can be invoked from its interface.
- TyphoonSim
  This section provides a general description of the TyphoonSim software, which is available as both a standalone software and integrated in Typhoon HIL Control Center.
- Example Explorer
  General Description of the Typhoon HIL Control Center Example Explorer.
- Signal Access Management
  This feature allows you to change the visibility of signals
- Schematic Editor
  Introduction to the Schematic Editor tool in Typhoon HIL software toolchain
- TyphoonSim Solver Engine
  Summary of the TyphoonSim solver engine algorithms and capabilities as well as its modeling principles and simulation workflow.
- Simulation context definitions
  Introductory overview of the different simulation contexts - Real-time (VHIL) and TyphoonSim. Core library component and feature availability and visibility for each of these contexts are explained in detail.
- Schematic Editor Component Libraries
  Detailed functionality and use of the pre-built Component Libraries in Schematic Editor
  - Modeling principles
    This section describes modeling principles used in Typhoon HIL's software.
  - Model partitioning
    This section describes the general motivation and gives some practical guidelines for model partitioning.
  - Component Library
    Description of the general properties of the component library in Schematic Editor, including a list of the main types of components available in it.
    - Circuit breakers
      This section describes the general properties of all circuit breaker components in Typhoon HIL Schematic Editor. There are currently 2 different circuit breaker components in Schematic Editor.
    - Communication
      Summary of the Communication components available in Schematic Editor
    - Contactors
      This section provides a general description of contactors components in Typhoon HIL Schematic Editor
    - Converters
      This section provides a general description of converter components in Typhoon HIL Schematic Editor
    - Converters - extras
      This section describes additional components related to converter modeling.
    - HIL Interfaces
      This section describes the HIL Interface components in Typhoon HIL Schematic Editor.
    - Machines
      This section describes the concepts used in the modeling and implementation of electrical machine components in Typhoon HIL Schematic Editor.
    - Measurements
      This section describes measurement components in Schematic Editor, including voltage and current measurements and RMS measurements.
    - Microgrid
      This section describes the Microgrid library category in Typhoon HIL Schematic Editor.
    - Model Partitioning Components
      This section describes the general properties of circuit properties components in Typhoon HIL's Schematic Editor, such as core couplings, device couplings, core markers, device markers, etc.
    - Passive components
      This section describes passive components, including linear passive components, nonlinear passive components, and variable passive components.
    - PHIL Interfaces
      This section describes the general properties of Power Hardware-In-the-Loop (PHIL) interface components.
    - Port components
      Description of the collection of Port components in Schematic Editor, which are used to connect internal subsystem elements to the outside schematic.
    - Signal Processing Components
      This section describes the general properties of all signal processing components in the Typhoon HIL Schematic Editor core library.
      - Discrete
        This sub-category contains twelve discrete components: Accumulator, Integrator, Unit Delay, Delay, Transport Delay, Rate Limiter, Differentiator, FIR Filter, Discrete Transfer Function, Discrete State Space, Hysteresis Function, and Low Pass Filter.
      - Extras
        Summary of the Extra components in Schematic Editor
      - Functions and Tables
        Summary of the Functions and Tables components available in Schematic Editor.
      - Logical Operations
        Summary of the Logical components available in Schematic Editor.
        Comparator
        Description of the Comparator component in Schematic Editor, which compares two input signals and outputs a binary value
        Edge Detection
        Description of the Edge Detection components in Schematic Editor, which detects rising, falling, or both rising and falling edges of its input signal.
        Logical Operator
        Description of the Logical Operator components in Schematic Editor, which performs logical operations among all its input signals.
        Relational Operator
        Description of the Relational Operator components in Schematic Editor, which performs comparisons between two input signals.
      - Math Operations
        Summary of the Math Operations components available in Schematic Editor.
      - Power Measurements
        Summary of the Power Measurements components available in Schematic Editor.
      - Power Systems
        Summary of the Power Systems components available in Schematic Editor.
      - Sinks
        Summary of the Sinks components available in Schematic Editor.
      - Signal Processing Sources
        Summary of the Source components available through the Signal Processing category of the Schematic Editor core library.
      - System
        Summary of the System signal processing components available in Schematic Editor.
    - Sources
      This section describes source components in Schematic Editor, including independent sources, controlled sources, externally controlled sources, signal controlled sources, batteries, photovoltaic panels, constant power loads/sources, and engine-generator sources.
    - System
      This section describes additional components in the System library in Schematic Editor
    - Test Suite
      This section describes the Test Suite components of Typhoon HIL's built in Schematic Editor Library, which currently includes the grid simulator, DC measurements, anti-islanding container, and grid fault components.
    - Transformers
      This section describes the general properties of all transformer components in Typhoon HIL's Schematic Editor, such as an ideal transformer, a single-phase three winding transformer, a three-phase four winding transformer, etc.
    - Transmission lines
      This section describes the general properties of all transmission line components in Typhoon HIL's Schematic Editor. There are currently 3 different transmission line components in Schematic Editor.
    - TyphoonSim
      This section describes general properties of the TyphoonSim specific components in Typhoon HIL's Schematic Editor
    - Component additional information
      This section describes the general properties of several components in Typhoon HIL's Schematic Editor whose feature set and capabilities require separate sections.
- Third-party integrations
  This section provides an overview of the key third party integrations within Typhoon HIL's toolchain.
- HIL SCADA
  Description of the HIL SCADA tool in Typhoon HIL Control Center
- Waveform Generator
  This section describes the waveform generator tool in Typhoon HIL Control Center.
- Test and Calibration Tool
  Description of the Test and Calibration tool in Typhoon HIL Control Center
- TyphoonTest IDE
  This section describes TyphoonTest IDE
- Signal Analyzer
  This section describes the Signal Analyzer tool.
- Lookup table extraction tool
  Description of the Typhoon HIL Control Center tool for extracting characteristics (lookup tables) from datasheet graphs and charts into a format that can be imported by non-linear models.
- Package Manager
  Description of the Typhoon HIL Control Center tool for creating and managing Typhoon packages that contain Schematic examples, Schematic and widget libraries, documentation etc.
- Usage Logging
  This section briefly describes Typhoon HIL software logging feature.
- Python Interpreters
  Overview of how you can use Typhoon HIL Python Interpreters to further customize your test files.

Edge Detection

Description of the Edge Detection components in Schematic Editor, which detects rising, falling, or both rising and falling edges of its input signal.

Component Icon

Figure 1. Edge detection icon

Description

The Edge Detection component detects rising, falling or both rising and falling edges of the input signal.

When the edge is detected, the output is set to value 1 for the duration of one simulation step.

The Edge Detection component is realized as a composite component comprised of Unit Delay and Relation Operation components, as represented in Figure 2

Figure 2. Implementation of the Edge Detection component: (a) for both edges, (b) for the rising edge, (c) for the falling edge.

The new signal value is compared to the value from the previous simulation cycle, and if the Relation Operation component detects the difference, the output is set to 1. Figure 3 illustrates the behavior of the Edge Detection component for an arbitrary input signal with each type of edge detection (rising, falling, and both)

Figure 3. Output of the Edge Detection component for each type of edge detection.

Ports

Input terminal
- Supported types: uint, int and real.
- Vector support: yes.

Output terminal
- Supported types: uint, int and real.
  - The output type is inherited from the input signal.
- Vector support: yes.
  - The vector length is inherited from the input signal.

Properties

Detect edge
- Select which signal edge to detect. There are three available configurations: rising, falling, and both.

Execution rate
- Type in the desired signal processing execution rate. This value must be compatible with other signal processing components of the same circuit: the value must be a multiple of the fastest execution rate in the circuit. There can be up to four different execution rates. To specify the execution rate, you can use either decimal (e.g. 0.001) or exponential values (e.g. 1e-3) in seconds. Alternatively, you can type in ‘inherit’ in which case the component will be assigned execution rate based on the execution rate of the components it is receiving input from.