Before hardware is built—and mistakes are most expensive to fix—engineers designing power converters and motor drives must make critical decisions about topology, components, controls, thermal behavior, and fault response. They also have to balance competing requirements such as cost, efficiency, performance, safety, and compliance while reducing redesign risk and accelerating development.
This white paper shows how you can use MATLAB® and Simulink® for power converter circuit design and covers these topics:
- The importance of early-stage simulation
- Reducing risk in early-stage design of power converters and motor drives
- How Simscape Electrical enhances your design process
- Trade studies, preliminary analysis, and optimization
- Multiple levels of fidelity: streamlining model creation and maintenance
- Thermal and mechanical analysis: evaluating losses and cooling strategies
- Frequency-based analysis for electrical performance and control characteristics
- Vendor parts: integrating models from Hitachi, Infineon, Wolfspeed, and other vendors
- Control loop design: optimizing control bandwidth from the start
