HIL for High-Fidelity EV and e-Mobility
Test, develop, and integrate automotive power electronics control software with Typhoon HIL.
Typhoon HIL‘s Hardware in the Loop (HIL) solutions are tailor-built, without any compromises, for the design and testing of power electronics controllers for Electric Vehicles (EV), e-Mobility, and power converters.
HIL solutions for EV drivetrains, electric vehicle stationary equipment (EVSE) such as fast DC chargers, onboard vehicle chargers, DC/DC converters, hybrid drivetrains, batteries, and fuel cells. Unleash the Typhoon HIL Advantage to test, design, verify and validate (V&V) your automotive control software.
The Typhoon HIL Advantage
HIL built for power electronics.
- Ultra-high fidelity power converter and machine models.
- 200 ns time step w/ 3.5ns resolution.
- Most advanced MOSFET/IGBT loss/thermal models.
- High-fidelity electric motor models: spatial harmonic & nonlinear, fault injection, loss/thermal modelling.
- 300 kHz switching frequency DC/DC converter models (resonant & PWM).
The only vertically integrated HIL.
- One click software install & update.
- Intuitive & easy to use schematic, from MIL/SIL to C-HIL in one breath.
- Flexible and easily configurable simulation runtime interactive UI.
- No 3rd party software tools needed.
- Compact encapsulated models from design all the way to test automation.
- Full backward model compatibility.
- “HIL in a day” promise.
True plug and play HIL solution.
- Direct model import from: JMAG FEA, Matlab/Simulink, FMI/FMU, C, PSIM.
- XIL-ASAM compliant API.
- Compatible with 3rd party test tools: ECUTest, NI Veristand, EXAM, PyTest.
- Compatible with existing HIL hardware infrastructure: dSPACE, NI, Custom solutions.
Typhoon HIL Applications in the Control Design Workflow
Typhoon HIL’s ultra-high fidelity HIL platform was tailored made for control designers and for verification and validation (V&V). Designed to be used in all phases of control software design and testing:
- Control development stage: the early stage of control design – both SIL and C-HIL testing.
- Automated converter controller testing: late-stage controller V&V.
- System integration stage: system-level software integration V&V.
- Interoperability testing: e.g., interoperability between EVSE and EV’s.
Increase your performance when simulating, testing, and emulating every aspect of power electronics in modern cars. ISO26262 „Road vehicles – Functional safety” defines Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) as a standard tool for the development and testing of safety-critical automotive software.
Their vertically integrated HW/SW, high model fidelity, model compactness, compatibility with other design and testing tools makes Typhoon HIL the perfect HIL choice, either standalone or interfaced with existing system-level simulators.
Control Design
HIL for Electric Drivetrain
- Unleash ultra-high fidelity full switching power converter models w/ down to 200 ns real-time simulation step and 3.5 ns digital input oversampling to enable unparalleled precision.
- Simulate next-generation drive train with low-bandgap semiconductor switches (SiC, GaN) and PWM frequencies exceeding 300 kHz.
- Simulate (MOSFET and IGBT) losses in real-time with calculations for every semiconductor switching transition.
- Visualise/measure/record all signals with high-resolution scope/capture including switch transitions with resolution down to 200 ns.
- Drag and drop components from the library: from 2-level and 3-level converters to flying capacitor and multi-level topologies.
- Deploy true high-fidelity electric machine models that include saturation effects and spatial harmonics running down to 200 ns time-step with run-time machine fault injection.
- Import machine parameters directly from FEM tools like JMAG.
- Simulate electric machine with coupled thermal models.
- Simulate multiphase machines with 3, 6, 9, or more phases.
- Machine models natively support accurate position/encoder feedback.
HIL for Onboard Chargers
- Simulate your DC/DC power converters switching at 300+ kHz: Dual Active Bridge (DAB), LLC resonant full-bridge (LLC FB), and LLC resonant half-bridge (LLC HB) converters and more.
- Easily simulate parallel configurations and multiple DC/DC converters.
- Simulate CAN bus communications in your HIL with one click.
- Use the high-resolution scope/capture to observe/measure/record every signal, every switch transition in full resolution down to 200 ns.
- Simulate with high-precision switch losses (conduction and switching) and thermal models.
- Use DC/DC HIL models for vehicle software integration tests.
HIL for Electric Vehicle Stationary Equipment (EVSE)
- Develop and test Electric Vehicle Stationary Equipment (EVSE) power electronics controller with high-fidelity converter models.
- Develop and test Stationary Equipment Communication Controller (SECC) and validate communication interoperability.
- Use high-fidelity HIL models of EV to test your EVSE.
- Deploy P-HIL to test interoperability with different EVs.
HIL for Battery Management System Testing
- With the scalable Typhoon HIL architecture, you can simulate batteries on the cell level even with hundreds of cells.
- Simulate lithium-ion (Li-ion), nickel-cadmium (Ni-Cd), or self-defined batteries.
- Perform high-fidelity simulations of current spikes and voltage drops.
- Create testing setups for low voltage battery setups with 24 V or 48 V; or high voltage batteries with 1000 V or more.
- Accurate shunt simulation measurements can be included.
HIL for Electric HVAC Systems
- Test control software for auxiliary electrified systems.
- Simulate next-generation electric motor driven compressors.
- Model variable-speed compressor drive in HIL as well as mechanical loads and coupled thermal loops.
- Deploy HIL to develop and test control for Heat Pump Air Conditioning Systems, the next-generation Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems for pure e-Mobility.
Validation and Verification
Test automation with HIL
- Automate all the control software testing on your C-HIL platform: from ECU software testing to vehicle software integration.
- Use TyphoonTest IDE to easily write Python and PyTest based tests for your controller under test.
- TyTest library is supported by TyphoonTest IDE and makes test automation a simple and efficient task.
- Use the intuitive graphical user interface to create tests and define test steps. Run tests with a click of a button; follow the progress in run-time.
- Use 3rd party test design and management tools (e.g. ECUTest, Exam, TestStand) that seamlessly interface with HIL via our ASAM XIL-MA compliant API.
Continuous Integration (CI) and Validation
- Enable Continuous Integration validation for all your control software and firmware.
- Manage tests, deploy tests, and access reports in the cloud.
- Integrated HIL testbeds with test management software, test automation server, and project management.
- Data and graphic-rich test reports in Allure integrated with cloud-based project management.
Interoperability Testing
EVSE Interoperability Testing
Charging Interface and Standards Solutions.
- Models of EV’s and EVSE optimized for ultra high-fidelity real-time simulations.
- Rich library of automated tests to provide constant 24/7 testing with clear reports and results.
- Test for existing standards (CCS, ISO 15118-2, IEC61851-1, J1772, IEC 62196, and more).
EVSE Interoperability Testing
- EV Interoperability testing with your HIL Compatible model of the EVSE w/ power amplifier.
- Models of EVs optimised for ultra high-fidelity real-time simulations.
- Rich library of automated tests and graphics/data-rich reports.
- Test for existing standards (CCS, ISO 15118-2, IEC61851-1, J1772, IEC 62196, and more).
