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Schematic Editor
Introduction to the Schematic Editor tool in Typhoon HIL software toolchain
Execution rate visualization
This section describes execution rate visualization

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 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.
- HILCore
  Detailed overview of the HILCore processor, including its solver and supplemental resources supporting various real-time applications.
- Device Manager
  Device Manager is used to create, manipulate, and activate HIL device setups.
- Example Explorer
  General Description of the Typhoon HIL Control Center Example Explorer.
- License Information
  Description of the License Information window in Typhoon HIL Control Center
- 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.
- Schematic Editor
  Introduction to the Schematic Editor tool in Typhoon HIL software toolchain
  - Schematic Editor menus and toolbar
    This section describes the menus and toolbar commands available in Schematic Editor
  - Library Explorer
    Description of the Library Explorer panel in Schematic Editor.
  - Model explorer
    This section describes model explorer
  - Quick insert dialog
    Description of the Quick Insert dialog feature in Schematic Editor that allows for quickly finding and inserting new components into your model.
  - Subsystem elements
    This section describes subsystem elements
  - Mask
    Description of component masks and their functionalities
  - Handlers
    Handlers are functions that are executed at specified action points.
  - Schematic areas
    Description of how to create areas in a schematic to improve visual organization.
  - Schematic comments
    Description of how to create comment objects in a schematic.
  - Disable schematic parts
    This section describes how some elements on schematic can be disabled and later enabled.
  - Component bypass
    Description of how to bypass components in a schematic.
  - Schematic Icon API
    Overview of the Schematic Icon API functionality
  - Execution rate visualization
    This section describes execution rate visualization
  - Compilation status dock
    This section describes the compilation status dock in Schematic Editor
  - Compile caching
    Compile caching speeds up model compilation by reusing previously compiled parts of the model and recompiling only the parts that have changed since the last compile.
  - Undo/redo history window
    This section describes undo/redo history window
  - Creating wires and wire nodes (junctions)
    This section describes creating wires and wire nodes (junctions)
  - Replacing wires with Electric Tags or Signal From/Goto pairs
    This Schematic Editor action allows tags to be quickly generated from connected wires.
  - Auto-connect component terminals
    Description of the behavior of the auto-connection feature
  - Alignment commands
    Supports organizing model items using alignment and distribution commands.
  - Electrical component vectorization
    Describes how specific electrical-type (PE) atomic components can be vectorized.
  - Single-line diagram representation
    Describes how the Electric Bus and similar components can be used in conjunction with the Electrical component vectorization feature to create single-line diagrams (SLD).
  - C code export
    This section describes C code export option.
  - User Defined Libraries
    This section describes user defined libraries
  - Model Settings
    Description of the Model Settings dialog and its options.
  - Alignment assistant
    Description of how to enable, disable and use the alignment assistant
  - Generating an API script from a selection
    Description of how to generate an API script from a selection in Schematic Editor.
  - Signal Access Management
    This feature allows you to change the visibility of signals
- 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
- 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
- TyphoonTest IDE
  This section describes TyphoonTest IDE
- 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
- Signal Analyzer
  Description of the Signal Analyzer tool in Typhoon HIL Control Center.
- 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.

Execution rate visualization

This section describes execution rate visualization

Execution rate visualization provides functionality to visually distinguish parts of a schematic (signal processing parts of schematic) at different execution rates.

There are two types of visualization (which can be enabled separately or both at the same time):

Visualization by Execution rates using color
Parts of schematic (signal processing items and connections) at the same execution rate will be highlighted with the same color. To see which color represents some concrete execution rate, activate the Execution rate legend dialog using the F6 shortcut.

Note: Components which have mixed execution rates, that is, either terminals or child items (in case of subsystem components) are not at the same execution rate, will be visualized as multi rate and their color will be orange. Power electronic components which don't have execution rate will have black color (or their original color) and will be marked 'Not applicable' in the legend dialog.

Visualization by Execution rates using annotations
Execution rate annotations visualize execution rate by showing labels at signal processing component out terminals (where connections start). Label content is not the actual execution rate number, but rather a shortcut which can be mapped to the actual execution rate using the Execution rate legend dialog (F6 keyboard shortcut).

To activate a specific execution rate visualization select Model -> Visualize model by and then specific action. These actions can also be reached from the schematic context menu (Using the mouse right click over an empty area in the schematic).

Model validation needs to be performed to update the displayed values. This can be done directly with the Validate model action, or by compiling the model. When compiling the model, the validation must fully pass for the values to be updated.

Note: When validating with the Validate model action, partial results can be displayed. Components with undefined execution rates will be highlighted in red.

Figure 1. Execution rate visualization example