The document summarizes the agenda for OPAL-RT's Regional User Seminar in Atlanta, GA on February 15th, 2017. It includes panels on real-time power system simulation, partner technology overviews, hardware-in-the-loop applications, and real-time microgrid demos. It also provides updates on OPAL-RT's expansion in Latin America, research collaborations in the US, involvement in an aircraft technology project in Canada, and new product features and releases.
In this webinar, learn about common cybersecurity threats and the crucial role played by real-time digital simulation in the reinforcement of cybersecurity in power systems.
In this webinar, learn how OPAL-RT's state-of-the-art Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulation solutions empower engineers to design and test ECUs, and other integrated power electronic systems and controllers, with efficiency.
In this webinar, learn about common cybersecurity threats and the crucial role played by real-time digital simulation in the reinforcement of cybersecurity in power systems.
In this webinar, learn how OPAL-RT's state-of-the-art Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulation solutions empower engineers to design and test ECUs, and other integrated power electronic systems and controllers, with efficiency.
E.ON Energy Research Center builds first interface between OPAL-RT and RTDS Technologies real-time simulators, opens new collaborative research opportunities
The OP1200, Lab-Scale Modular Multilevel Converters Test Bench, is dedicated to the hardware verification of new control algorithms for new and existing power electronic converter topologies. It is used for experimental work on converter interactions and network control.
Enabling Insight to Support World-Class Supercomputing (Stefan Ceballos, Oak ...confluent
The Oak Ridge Leadership Facility (OLCF) in the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) houses world-class high-performance computing (HPC) resources and has a history of operating top-ranked supercomputers on the TOP500 list, including the world's current fastest, Summit, an IBM AC922 machine with a peak of 200 petaFLOPS. With the exascale era rapidly approaching, the need for a robust and scalable big data platform for operations data is more important than ever. In the past when a new HPC resource was added to the facility, pipelines from data sources spanned multiple data sinks which oftentimes resulted in data silos, slow operational data onboarding, and non-scalable data pipelines for batch processing. Using Apache Kafka as the message bus of the division's new big data platform has allowed for easier decoupling of scalable data pipelines, faster data onboarding, and stream processing with the goal to continuously improve insight into the HPC resources and their supporting systems. This talk will focus on the NCCS division's transition to Apache Kafka over the past few years to enhance the OLCF's current capabilities and prepare for Frontier, OLCF's future exascale system; including the development and deployment of a full big data platform in a Kubernetes environment from both a technical and cultural shift perspective. This talk will also cover the mission of the OLCF, the operational data insights related to high-performance computing that the organization strives for, and several use-cases that exist in production today.
OpenPOWER Acceleration of HPCC SystemsHPCC Systems
JT Kellington, IBM and Allan Cantle, Nallatech present at the 2015 HPCC Systems Engineering Summit Community Day about porting HPCC Systems to the POWER8-based ppc64el architecture.
E.ON Energy Research Center builds first interface between OPAL-RT and RTDS Technologies real-time simulators, opens new collaborative research opportunities
The OP1200, Lab-Scale Modular Multilevel Converters Test Bench, is dedicated to the hardware verification of new control algorithms for new and existing power electronic converter topologies. It is used for experimental work on converter interactions and network control.
Enabling Insight to Support World-Class Supercomputing (Stefan Ceballos, Oak ...confluent
The Oak Ridge Leadership Facility (OLCF) in the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) houses world-class high-performance computing (HPC) resources and has a history of operating top-ranked supercomputers on the TOP500 list, including the world's current fastest, Summit, an IBM AC922 machine with a peak of 200 petaFLOPS. With the exascale era rapidly approaching, the need for a robust and scalable big data platform for operations data is more important than ever. In the past when a new HPC resource was added to the facility, pipelines from data sources spanned multiple data sinks which oftentimes resulted in data silos, slow operational data onboarding, and non-scalable data pipelines for batch processing. Using Apache Kafka as the message bus of the division's new big data platform has allowed for easier decoupling of scalable data pipelines, faster data onboarding, and stream processing with the goal to continuously improve insight into the HPC resources and their supporting systems. This talk will focus on the NCCS division's transition to Apache Kafka over the past few years to enhance the OLCF's current capabilities and prepare for Frontier, OLCF's future exascale system; including the development and deployment of a full big data platform in a Kubernetes environment from both a technical and cultural shift perspective. This talk will also cover the mission of the OLCF, the operational data insights related to high-performance computing that the organization strives for, and several use-cases that exist in production today.
OpenPOWER Acceleration of HPCC SystemsHPCC Systems
JT Kellington, IBM and Allan Cantle, Nallatech present at the 2015 HPCC Systems Engineering Summit Community Day about porting HPCC Systems to the POWER8-based ppc64el architecture.
A Library for Emerging High-Performance Computing ClustersIntel® Software
Deployed next-generation architectures and systems are characterized by high concurrency, low memory per core, and multilevels of hierarchy and heterogeneity. These characteristics bring out new challenges in energy efficiency, fault-tolerance, and scalability. Next-generation programming models and their associated middleware and runtimes have a responsibility to tackle these challenges.
This talk focuses on challenges and opportunities in designing efficient runtimes using a formula (MPI+X) to accelerate applications for emerging high-performance computing (HPC) systems with millions of processors and featuring next-generation interconnects. Energy-aware designs and codesign schemes for such environments are also emphasized. View features and sample performance numbers from the MVAPICH2 libraries.
In this video from the 2014 HPC User Forum in Seattle, Manuel Vigil from Los Alamos National Laboratory presents: Update on Trinity System Procurement and Plans.
Learn more: http://insidehpc.com/video-gallery-hpc-user-forum-2014-seattle/
Ron Swartzentruber's (Senior Principal Engineer, Silicon Development at Netronome) presentation from IEEE SOCC 2016 "SoC Solutions Enabling Server-Based Networking" from September 8, 2016.
In this ACM Tech Talk, Doug Kothe from ORNL presents: The Exascale Computing Project and the future of HPC.
"The mission of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) was initiated in 2016 as a formal DOE project and extends through 2022. The ECP is designing the software infrastructure to enable the next generation of supercomputers—systems capable of more than 1018 operations per second—to effectively and efficiently run applications that address currently intractable problems of strategic importance. The ECP is creating and deploying an expanded and vertically integrated software stack on US Department of Energy (DOE) HPC exascale and pre-exascale systems, thereby defining the enduring US exascale ecosystem."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-kep
Learn more: https://www.exascaleproject.org/
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Synchrophasor Applications Facilitating Interactions between Transmission and...Luigi Vanfretti
Distribution grid dynamics will become increasingly complex due to the transition from passive to active networks arising from the increase of renewable energy sources at medium and voltage level. A successful transition requires to increase the observability and awareness of the interactions between Transmission and Distribution (T&D) grids, particularly to guarantee adequate operational security.
This presentation explores how different technical means can facilitate interactions between TSOs and DSOs with the utilization of GPS-time-synchronized phasor measurements (aka Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs)) with millisecond resolution. If made available in actual T&D networks, such high-sampled data across operational boundaries allows an opportunity to extract information related to different time-scales.
As part of the work carried out in the EU-funded FP7 IDE4L project (http://ide4l.eu/), a specific use case, containing PMU-based monitoring functions, has been defined to support the architecture design of future distribution grid automation systems. As a result, the architecture can accommodate for key dynamic information extraction and exchange between DSO and TSO.
This presentation presents the use case and focuses on the technical aspects related to the development and implementation of the PMU-based monitoring functionalities that can provide means to facilitate technical co-operation between transmission and distribution operations.
This is a presentation by Prof. Anne Elster at the International Workshop on Open Source Supercomputing held in conjunction with the 2017 ISC High Performance Computing Conference.
eduPERT és una estructura federada d'equips de resposta per millorar el rendiment de la xarxa, promoguda pels membres del projecte Géant, amb l'ànim de promoure la compartició de coneixement en la comunitat educativa i de recerca. En el marc de la comunitat eduPERT, aquesta presentació presenta breument quin és l'estat actual i quins són els reptes principals que afronta la computació d'altes prestacions, la gestió de sistemes amb gran volum de dades (Big Data) i d'altra banda les noves arquitectures de computació que estan sorgint per afrontar el repte de la computació a l'Exaescala. La presentació es centra en les noves eines necessàries per tal de mesurar el rendiment dels programes en aquesta nova família de supercomputadors híbrids, que no depenen només dels algoritmes o el codi utilitzats, sinó també de l'arquitectura i de les llibreries numèriques i de paral·lelització. S'expliquen també les eines avaluades dins del projecte europeu NUMEXAS, on participa el CSUC.
Swimming upstream: OPNFV Doctor project case studyOPNFV
Based on the lifecycle of the OPNFV Doctor project, this case study shows how operator requirements “on paper” have successfully been realized step-by-step and in close cooperation with upstream community projects into a mature fault management framework. A demo of the solution had been presented in a keynote at the last OpenStack Summit. The talk will describe how we have worked in the OPNFV Doctor project and will provide some lessons learned on this journey. With significant experience now of working OPNFV requirements upstream to OpenStack, we’ll share best practices for submitting contributions upstream, how to best communicate, and how to overcome the primary challenges.
How HPC and large-scale data analytics are transforming experimental scienceinside-BigData.com
In this deck from DataTech19, Debbie Bard from NERSC presents: Supercomputing and the scientist: How HPC and large-scale data analytics are transforming experimental science.
"Debbie Bard leads the Data Science Engagement Group NERSC. NERSC is the mission supercomputing center for the USA Department of Energy, and supports over 7000 scientists and 700 projects with supercomputing needs. A native of the UK, her career spans research in particle physics, cosmology and computing on both sides of the Atlantic. She obtained her PhD at Edinburgh University, and has worked at Imperial College London as well as the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the USA, before joining the Data Department at NERSC, where she focuses on data-intensive computing and research, including supercomputing for experimental science and machine learning at scale."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-kLV
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Development and Applications of Distributed IoT Sensors for Intermittent Conn...InfluxData
What do electric power sensing IoT devices, large area electric field surveys and an array with hundreds of data channels have in common? They’re all built using an IoT stack fueled by InfluxDB and designed to run in environments of intermittent network connectivity.
In the operational environments where U.S. Soldiers operate, network connectivity is not ensured due to jamming, intermittent 4G signals, or paperwork. To address these issues, the United States Army Research Laboratory runs InfluxDB in both the cloud and on the IoT device. When connectivity is available, the most recent data are replicated to the cloud with historical data replicated as possible. This allows them to design products that can leverage the cloud, but aren’t tied to it. As a result, they have been able to develop electric power monitors for installations and microgrids, strap sensors to vehicles for large area surveys, and combine sensors into arrays.
Practical IEC 61850 for Substation Automation for Engineers and TechniciansLiving Online
COPY THIS LINK INTO YOUR BROWSER TO FIND OUT MORE: bit.ly/11AM1oL
Older (‘legacy’) substation automation protocols and hardware/software architectures provided basic functionality for power system automation, and were designed to accommodate the technical limitations of the technologies available at the time. However, in recent years there have been vast improvements in technology, especially on the networking side. This has opened the door for dramatic improvements in the approach to power system automation in substations.
The latest developments in networking such as high-speed, deterministic, redundant Ethernet, as well as other technologies including TCP/IP, high-speed Wide Area Networks and high-performance embedded processors, are providing capabilities that could hardly be imagined when most legacy substation automation protocols were designed.
IEC61850 is a part of the International Electro-technical Commission (IEC) Technical Committee 57 (TC57) architecture for electric power systems. It is an important new international standard for substation automation, and it will have a significant impact on how electric power systems are designed and built in future. The model-driven approach of IEC61850 is an innovative approach and requires a new way of thinking about substation automation. This will result in significant improvements in the costs and performance of electric power systems.
This workshop provides comprehensive coverage of IEC 61850 and will provide you with the tools and knowledge to tackle your next substation automation project with confidence.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This workshop is designed for personnel with a need to understand the techniques required to use and apply IEC 61850 to substation automation, hydro power plants, wind turbines and distributed energy resources as productively and economically as possible. This includes engineers and technicians involved with:
Consulting
Control and instrumentation
Control systems
Design
Maintenance supervisors
Electrical installations
Process control
Process development
Project management
SCADA and telemetry systems
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El Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) fue establecido en 2005 y alberga el MareNostrum, uno de los superordenadores más potentes de España. Somos el centro pionero de la supercomputación en España. Nuestra especialidad es la computación de altas prestaciones - también conocida como HPC o High Performance Computing- y nuestra misión es doble: ofrecer infraestructuras y servicio de supercomputación a los científicos españoles y europeos, y generar conocimiento y tecnología para transferirlos a la sociedad. Somos Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa, miembros de primer nivel de la infraestructura de investigación europea PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), y gestionamos la Red Española de Supercomputación (RES). Como centro de investigación, contamos con más de 456 expertos de 45 países, organizados en cuatro grandes áreas de investigación: Ciencias de la computación, Ciencias de la vida, Ciencias de la tierra y aplicaciones computacionales en ciencia e ingeniería.
Evaluating UCIe based multi-die SoC to meet timing and power Deepak Shankar
Multi-die designs allow systems engineering to pack more functionality with different timing and power constraints into a single package. Older generation multi-die split the dies into high-speed and low speed. Newer, high-performance multi-die System-on-Chip (SoC) requires interaction between memories across the die-to-die interfaces. Connections between dies must be power efficient, have low latency, provide high bandwidth to transfer massive amounts of data, and deliver error-free operation. The distribution of cores, deep neural networks and AI engines across these dies makes it extremely hard to predict the expected end-to-end latency, power spikes and effective bandwidth. Moreover, Multi-die architectures have evolved from proprietary to industry standard UCIe.
This Webinar looks at the system-wide view of performance and power in a multi-die SOC. We will be showcasing a few use cases that combines various types of processing engines across PCIe and interconnected UCIe. This modeling effort will present the user with different system performance and system architecture models and a guide on how to best bring different aspects of their design together in a holistic way that is optimized for power, timing and functionality.
During the Webinar, users can follow along using VisualSim Cloud. To get started with VisualSim Cloud, users can register and receive a login at https://www.mirabilisdesign.com/visualsim-cloud-login/. Once you receive the login, follow the instructions, and open the models provided in the Template pull-down. More instructions will be provided at the start of the Webinar.
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TODAY’S AGENDA
Time Agenda
7:30 AM Breakfast and registration … DONE!
8:30 AM Welcome, industry updates, new trends and technologies – by François Berthelot, OPAL-RT Technologies
9:30 AM PANEL 1: REAL-TIME SIMULATION APPLIED TO POWER SYSTEMS
• Hardware Implementation of an Automatic Adaptive Centralized under Frequency Load Shedding Scheme – by Ahmed H Eltom, PhD, P.E., The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
• Comparison of non-real-time and real-time simulators with relays in-the-loop for adaptive overcurrent protection – by Emilio C. Piesciorovsky, Tennessee Technological University
• Real-time Volt/Var Optimization Scheme for Distribution Systems with PV Integration - by Andrea Benigni Ph.D., University of South Carolina
11:15 AM PARTNER TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW
• AC Power Systems for Grid Simulation – by Mahesh Thaker, BSEE, Ametek Programmable Power
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP AND CONTROL SYSTEMS
• Residential Battery Storage Systems, Design support experience using Hardware-in-the-Loop – by Andres Salazar Llinas, Sonnen Inc
• Virtual Industrial Control Systems with OPAL-RT – by Rishabh Das, Research Associate, on behalf of Tommy Morris, PhD, University of Alabama in Huntsville
• Selected Activities of Using Opal-RT System in Power and Energy Systems Research - by Shuhui Li, Ph.D., The University of Alabama
2:30 PM Coffee Break
2:45 PM Real-Time Microgrid demos by Thomas Kirk, OPAL-RT Technologies
3:30 PM Open discussions about industry best practices
4:00 PM Closing remarks – by Francois Berthelot, OPAL-RT Technologies
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7. • Established in 1997 in Montreal, Canada
• Over 150 employees
• More than 500 customers worldwide
• President, CEO & CTO and founder: Jean Bélanger
(25 years at Hydro-Québec Research Institute (IREQ))
Real-time simulation and Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) for:
Power systems
Power electronics
Aerospace
Automotive
OPAL-RT IN BRIEF
8. • OPAL-RT Latin America (OPAL-RT LATAM) will be located in Santiago, Chile
• OPAL-RT LATAM will cover Mexico, the Carribean, Central America and South America
• Target opening date: July 2017
• Why OPAL-RTLA?
• Better support current customers and utilities
• Be close to our clients and offer services
• Develop the market, support sales and distributors
• Actively participate in local projects and activities
OPAL-RT NEWS – OPAL-RT LATAM
Julie Fortin-Morin
Director, Business
Development• Distributors and Partners
• Argentina: Tracnova
• Brazil: Nova Didacta, TAG Inovaçao
• Chile: Conecta
• Colombia: PTI S.A
• Mexico: Edutelsa
9. • OPAL-RT’s small footprint in the U.S. currently consists of OPAL-RT Corporation:
• 3 employees in Michigan: sales and on-site support for the automotive industry
• 1 employee in California: executive director of U.S. technical services, research collaborations
• OPAL-RT is involved in funded projects from:
• ARPA-E (NODES)
• EERE (SuNLaMP, ENERGISE)
• CEC (UC Irvine)
• …
All the work related to these projects must be executed in the U.S.
OPAL-RT NEWS – R&D in the U.S.
Ravinder Venugopal, Ph.D.
Executive Director, U.S. Technical Services
• OPAL-RT is looking at expanding its R&D footprint in the
U.S., in order to successfully complete those projects and in
order to apply on similar upcoming funding opportunities.
Right now we are looking at a real-time simulation specialist
/ field-application engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area
and will be looking at a Ph.D. in the same field soon.
10. • In October 2016, the Government of Canada announced an investment of up to $54 Million in Next-Generation
Aircraft Technologies
• The consortium is led by Bombardier and includes Rolls-Royce, Thales, OPAL-RT, Quaternion Aerospace, FusiA,
Liebherr, Axis and Microturbo (Safran). Knowledge institutions collaborating on the project include the University
of Victoria, McGill University, Polytechnique Montréal, University of Toronto, and Ryerson University.
OPAL-RT NEWS – Next Gen Aircraft Technologies
• This project focuses on the development of next-
generation aircraft technologies, such as state-of-
the-art electric systems to replace traditional
pneumatic and hydraulic systems. It will also involve
replacing conventional mechanical flight controls
with electronic interfaces that allow aircraft
computers to perform tasks without pilot input.
• OPAL-RT has been hired to:
• Phase 1: Provide a software-in-the-loop (SIL) real-time simulation platform for the aircraft electric system,
with capabilities to import supplier models
• Phase 2: Provide a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) platform for testing
11. Our new website is now online!
• Search by Application, Industry or Type of
Simulation.
• Browse through our new Resource Center for
datasheets, manuals, brochure, videos and
demo.
• Access our Download Center for software
downloads.
WHAT’S NEW – www.opal-rt.com !
12. Now Available:
• TDNG – TestDrive Next Generation
• LabVIEW panels inside RT-LAB for
monitoring and control
• IEEE 1588
• IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol
• Dashboards on tablets through WiFi
• Monitor and control the simulation
from a tablet
WHAT’S NEW – eMEGAsim / RT-LAB
13. Upcoming:
• RT-LAB I/O Server
• Independent from the Simulink
model
• For standard I/Os and drivers as
well
• Fixing 4000 warnings!
WHAT’S NEW – eMEGAsim / RT-LAB
14. Now Available:
• Lighter versions of eHS Gen3
• eHS x16 for NI cRIO 9068 (Zynq 7020)
• eHS x32 for small FPGAs : OP5600 Virtex 6 240T
OP4200 Zynq 7030
• eHS x64 for large FPGAs : OP5700 Virtex 7 485T (2 cores)
OP4510 Kintex 7 325T/410T
cRIO 903x Kintex 7 325T
PXIe-7976R FlexRIO Kintex 7 410T
• Improvements to eHS in PSIM and PLECS
• Support of Loss Compensation Algorithm (LCA) in PSIM and PLECS
• Support of PSIM 10
• Support of PLECS 3.7
• Improvements to eHS in MATLAB
• Support of thyristors in SimPowerSystems
• Support of Matlab r2015aSP1
• Selectable Digital I/Os within a single firmware
Upcoming:
• eHS x128
• 144 switches (eHSx64 = 72)
• 250 voltage/current measurements
• Virtex 7 support (1 core)
• Electric motor packaging
(BLDC, PMSM, SRM, DFIG, …)
WHAT’S NEW - eFPGAsim
15. Now Available:
• HYPERSIM on Windows
• Ease of use, new graphical interface
• Prepare models and run offline on your Windows computer, no simulator required
• Easy migration from HYPERSIM Linux to HYPERSIM Windows
• Support of CentOS (optional)
• 4x more switches per task
• 32x faster compilation (parallel) / 1.5x faster simulation
• New communication protocols
• OPC UA Server
• IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol
• New driver architecture: performance and flexibility enhanced
Upcoming:
• New libraries
• IEEE turbines, governors, PSS and exciters
• Relays: Differential, distance, over current,
under excitation, under voltage, over voltage,
frequency and a PMU model
• I/O interface
• Graphical interface for I/O and sensors
• No more text file editing
Long term:
• PSCAD support in HYPERSIM
• eHS support in HYPERSIM
• Import PSS/E models in HYPERSIM
WHAT’S NEW - HYPERSIM
16. Now Available:
• Power flow for positive sequence (balanced) networks
• Dynamic simulation only, Power-flow only, Power-flow and dynamic simulation
• Newton-Raphson numerical method. Selectable nb of iterations and tolerance.
• Export power flow results to Excel and .csv files
• Importation of CYME files
• Import .sxst network data files
• Import CYME’s load-flow (bus voltages) through Excel for dynamic initialization
• New library components
• Modelica-based library: generators, exciters, PSS, turbine governors
• Models for wind turbines, FACTS and SVC in FMU format
Improvements:
• Improvement in performance
• 10% to 20% improvement: reduction of offline simulation time
• Greatest increase witnessed on FMU-based / positive sequence networks
• Parallelization / Optimization for offline Windows simulation
• Previously, offline simulations were limited to run on a single core
• Now, parallelization across multiple cores on Windows is possible and automatic
• Optimal number of cores to use is automatically calculated
Upcoming:
• Dedicated ePHASORsim Python API
• Facilitate simulation interaction
• Facilitate test automation
WHAT’S NEW - ePHASORsim
17. Detailed Power Converter
Large-Scale T&D Network
Detailed Microgrid
All-integrated Real-Time Co-Simulation
Environment
1-10 ms
7-100 us
200 ns – 2 us
WHAT’S NEW – Co-Simulation Environment
18. Flagship Real-Time Digital Simulator
• Xilinx Virtex 7 485T FPGA
• Up to 32 Intel Xeon E5 cores 2.3 ~ 3 GHz
• Support up to 8 I/O cards
• 16 SFP multi-mode fiber optic
• 5 PCI Express slots for:
• I/O expansion boxes
• 4-Port Ethernet cards
• Time-synchronization cards
• Third-party I/O cards
• …
WHAT’S NEW – OP5707
19. Entry-Level Real-Time Simulator
• Xilinx Zynq All Programmable SoC
XCZ7030
• Kintex-7 FPGA, 125K logic cells
• Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor
667 MHz
• Support up to 4 I/O cards
• 2 SFP multi-mode fiber optic
• 2 CAN bus
• 2 RS-232 full duplex serial ports
Ideal for:
• Power converters
on FPGA via eHS
x32
• Control algorithms
in Simulink via RT-
LAB
WHAT’S NEW – OP4200
20. Lab-Scale MMC Test Bench
• 400 VDC, 15ADC, 6kW
• 10 submodules / half-arm (11 levels)
• OP1210 H-Bridge submodule specs:
• 10 MOSFET H-Bridge cells per OP1210
• 40V, 15 Arms
• Max switching frequency: 50kHz
• 500 ksps cell current/capacitor voltage measurement
• OP4510 included as controller
WHAT’S NEW – Lab-Scale MMC Test Bench
24. OPAL-RT POLLS – WAMPAC
Note: For these polls, voters could select more than 1 answer.
25. OPAL-RT POLLS – Cybersecurity
Note: For this poll, voters could select more than 1 answer.
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Real-time application development
Standards compliance testing and certification
Risk assessment studies
Communication system development and testing
Control system development and testing
Which of these cybersecurity applications have you used or plan on using?
48%
29%
38%
48%
58%
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