POWER ELECTRONICS SIMULATION WITH PSPICE
Philippe MISSIRLIU
Newton-ENREA
College
France
A paper presented at the
Journees 3EI99
Supelec France
ABSTRACT
Why simulate?
The
use of a circuit simulator is more and more necessary in teaching
electrical engineering or power electronics. This technique makes
it possible to obtain results when the hardware is missing.
Simulation being widely used in the industry it is thus necessary
to initiate our students to this technique.
Why Pspice?
Among
many simulation softwares on the market, Pspice has various
advantages:
- It is based on the industrial standard Spice and thus gives access to vast libraries of models developed by manufacturers.
- Pspice is a very popular software in industry.
- It is quite easy to learn for our students.
The
professional version of Pspice is far too expensive for most of
us. But fortunately there is the demo version which is completely
free and easily obtainable.A
demo version is always limited, of course, but here the limit is
only in the number of connections which one can simulate. All the
other features are available.
We have been using Pspice in
electrical engineering courses for three years. For this purpose
we developed a library of especially adapted parts. We thus
managed to take into account all the aspects of an
electromechanical system: power electronics, mechanics,
regulation, with only one software. Moreover a free software!The
object of this paper is to demonstrate this whith a classic
example : the speed control of a DC motor.
With
figures ( word97 format)
567k
Without
figures (HTML format) 9k
Libraries and examples developped at the Newton-ENREA College :
Microsim Pspice release 6 users (enrea6a.zip 16k)
Microsim Pspice release 8 users (enreaspia.zip 50k)
Pspice for OrCad release 9 users (pspav9.zip 112k)
Since OrCad bought Microsim, Pspice is included in Orcad's EDA suite : OrCad
Orcad's french distributor site is full of useful stuff about Pspice : Als Design
The french Pspice Users Club (many papers are in english) : Le Club Utilisateurs Pspice
This site is dedicated to Switch Mode Power Supplies designers, using PSpice simulation examples
Philippe MISSIRLIU
Lycee Newton ENREA
1, pl Jules Verne
92110 Clichy
France
tel : (33) 1 41 06 78 78 poste 352
fax : (33) 1 47 37 26 63
email : philippe.missirliu@wanadoo.fr
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