SimElectronics 1.4

Introduction

SimElectronics^® extends Simscape™ with tools for modeling and simulating electronic and electromechanical systems.

SimElectronics software enables you to include analog electronics and electromechanical components as physical networks within multidomain system models. It provides semiconductor, motor, drive, sensor, and actuator components, as well as building blocks that let you implement your own custom subsystems.

Modeling a DC motor along with a PWM driver 7:10
The transition between averaged and detailed driver models is shown.

With SimElectronics, you can develop impairment and plant models in the same environment that you use to develop and refine your control and signal processing algorithms.

SimElectronics can be used for a variety of automotive, aerospace, industrial automation, communications, and signal processing applications

Key Features

• Modeling environment for building electronic and electromechanical systems as physical networks
• More than 55 electronic and electromechanical components, including sensors, semiconductors, and actuators
• Parameterization methods, enabling key parameter values to be entered directly from industry datasheets
• Ability to convert models to C code (with Real-Time Workshop^®, available separately)
• Access to linearization and steady-state calculation capabilities in Simscape™

Electromechanical system containing a DC motor, worm gear, Hall effect sensor, speed controller, and a motor servo-amplifier (top), the associated SimElectronics model (left), and a portion of the speed controller model (bottom). The colored blocks in the model correspond to the components in the electromechanical system.