Power Electronics
From Prototype to Product—Faster, Smarter, Safer
Typhoon HIL offers a suite of ultra-high-fidelity, real-time simulation tools designed for power electronics R&D and V&V. Covering applications from motor drives and battery converters to solar inverters, active filters, and traction converters, our platform helps address complex customer and application challenges with accuracy.
From early digital twin prototyping to final validation, we provide third-party integrations, productized HIL models, cost-effective starter packages, and ease of use—reducing complexity while increasing confidence in performance, safety, and reliability to help you stay competitive in a fast-evolving market.
Electric Motor Drives
Serving as the workhorses of numerous applications from electric vehicles to industrial machinery, electric motor drives rely on rigorous testing and validation for their reliable and efficient performance. With our solutions at Typhoon HIL, we can ensure seamless integration for your applications across a variety of industries. We support this by:
- Testing connectivity and interdependence between sub-systems
- Increased test coverage difficult to replicate and repeat in the lab or in the field
- Shrinking time to market requirements
- Ease of use and versatility, including ease of system integration
Battery Converters
A crucial component in energy storage and electric vehicle industries, battery converters testing is essential to evaluate under diverse operating conditions and ensure optimal performance. At Typhoon HIL, we facilitate cost-effective and time-efficient testing by identifying design flaws early in the development process, minimizing the risk of expensive revisions. Moreover, we support your team by:
- Comprehensive interoperability testing with control systems
- Ensure battery converters seamlessly integrate into various applications
- Contribute to the growth and success of sustainable energy and transportation solutions
Solar Inverters
Pivotal to reducing our carbon footprint, the reliability of solar inverters is fundamental to the transforming our energy security. At Typhoon HIL, our solutions facilitate thorough interoperability testing with grid systems and other components, ensuring that your solar inverters integrate seamlessly into renewable energy systems. We support you overcome your testing and validation challenges by:
- Simulating real-world scenarios with accuracy
- Evaluating inverter performance under a wide range of conditions
- Minimizing the need for costly revisions
Active Filters
Serving to mitigate harmonic distortion and improve the quality of electrical power, active filters are essential components in power electronics systems. Our HIL solutions provide accurate and dynamic testing of active filters under various load conditions, voltage fluctuations, and frequency distortions, simulating real-world scenarios with precision. In addition, we streamline your process by:
- Identifying flaws and optimizing control algorithms early in the design phase
- Reduced lag time, so testing is optimized
- Relentlessly test with test automation
Traction Converters
From lightweight city trains to high-speed rail, new motor drives are pushing efficiency, reliability, comfort, and weight reduction. Variable frequency drives are the backbone of railway electrification. Our HIL testing targets key factors for advancing electric drives:
- Reduced noise level: enhances passenger comfort and minimizes disturbance to nearby communities.
- Efficiency improvements: lowers lifecycle energy consumption.
- Compact and lightweight design: enables structurally sound trains with less weight
- Improving reliability: ensures passenger safety and reduces unplanned maintenance.
- Lifecycle maintenance reduction:streamlines upkeep and cuts operational costs.
DriveLab ACS880 HIL Compatible: Unlock the Future of Drive Testing
Collaboration with partners such as Typhoon HIL is delivering innovation that directly benefits customers across different industries. The HIL solution allows us to work with our customers to help them shorten their testing and validation cycle with improved speed, efficiency and quality of the process.
