CASPOC

CASPOC is a powerful, innovative system simulator designed for the simulation of Power Electronics and Electrical Drives. Using CASPOC, modeling power electronics, electrical machines, load and control in one multilevel model is fast and simple. This multilevel model includes a circuit level for the modeling of switched mode power supplies, a component level for the modeling of electrical machines/loads and a system level for the modeling of control algorithms.

Only CASPOC combines the ease of use of visual drag and drop schematic development, the productivity of modeling language, the power to view simulation results in ‘real time’ during the simulation in auto-scaling windows, and the world’s fastest simulation performance with no convergence problems.

LORENTZ-HF also calculates near and far field results, power and directive gain, radar cross-section, axial ratio, and input impedance, admittance and scattering parameters.

CASPOC is used in the design and simulation of complex power and control devices and systems such as: Rectifiers, DC Converters, AC Converters, Resonant Converters, Power Engineering, Induction Machines, Vector Controls, Mechanics, Active Filters, Harmonics, DC Machines, Stepper Motors and more, used in industries such as Aerospace, Automotive, Utility, Industrial, Transportation and Commercial Electronics.

Extended library blocks for power electronic and drive systems
Library of electrical machine models, including mechanical systems, rotating and translating, shafts, gearboxes, springs, bearings and friction models
Advanced library for AC motor control (see Advanced Electrical Drives, DeDoncker TU Aachen) including field oriented control, DTC and sensorless control
Extensive library for modeling sustainable green energy, such as wind turbines, solar modules, maximum power point trackers, grid converters, electric vehicles, battery and fuel cells
Models for temperature dependent power electronic semiconductors, including loss calculation
Math blocks for any function evaluation and vector signals for AC motor control
Replay of the simulation results for failure modes and further investigation – any point in time can be traced back and the state of the simulation at that point in time can be observed, including the animation, signals and state animation inside hierarchical models
Animation of the schematic showing full current path
Animated symbols on customized library blocks
Easy setting of parameters for all components
Interface with Data Acquisition board
Interface with INTEGRATED’s programs
User compiled C/C++ code via DLL
Export C code from the control system models
Optimized C code export, independent of type of microcontroller or DSP, including fixed point TI QMATH Library
Notes and figures can be added to the schematic
Ability to create scripts to run CASPOC in batch mode
Parameter sweep for any component parameter
Bode diagram for any system to identify stability, impedance and audio susceptibility. Gain/phase margin, bandwidth for any type of power electronics – no averaging models are required
Project management data can be stored with the simulation project
Archive the entire project with one click
Many samples on power electronics, electrical drives and sustainable energy are already pre-programmed

CASPOC Versions

The CASPOC Standard version is the most basic, yet fully functional version of CASPOC. The CASPOC Professional version includes extended features.

FreeWare

Try the CASPOC FreeWare version. Although limited in nodes, you can run the samples and create your own models and simulate them!

Viewer

Any sample can be viewed/simulated/animated in the Viewer. If there is no license, you can run a simulation and view the results. Certain parameters can be changed, indicated by the interactive components like the UPDOWN, KEY and ONOFF.

No license is required
View simulation results
No limitation on nodes and components in the Viewer
All samples from the tutorials. sample packages and the educational workbooks can be simulated/animated

Standard version

With the low-priced CASPOC Standard version you can simulate and animate DC converters, DC-AC converters, AC-DC converters, Controlled Rectifiers, DC converters with control, Induction Machines with inverters, Brushless DC machines, etc. Most of the examples from the Educational Example Package for power electronics can be simulated with the Standard version.

CASPOC Standard offers you:

Small-signal analysis for every type of switched mode power supply and even resonant converters
Coupling to SIMULINK
Non-linear components
C-script to create user defined blocks
Improved user interface and project manager
Coupling to machine design tool Tesla

Professsional version

The high-end Professional version offers coupling to various simulation and analysis tolls, supports embedded C code export and allows you to run scripts to optimize your designs.

CASPOC Professional offers you:

Modeling language for Microsoft Visual C
Optimize your simulations using the C-script language. Set parameters in your simulation and perform multiple simulations
Look up tables in 1D, 2D and multi-dimension
Export of embedded C code for micro-controller design
Typecast block for creating fixed-point simulations
Report generator creates reports for all projects in one directory. Automated running and report generation
Coupling to electromagnetic software

Educational version

The educational version includes all the features of the High-End Professional version. The educational versions can only be ordered by educational institutes.

The online versions of the workbooks on Power Electronics and Electrical Drives are included in the educational version.

General info

The CASPOC Standard version is not limited in nodes and blocks. The Standard version includes, samples, tutorial, libraries and online help on a CD-ROM and 250 page printed manual.

The CASPOC Professional version has extended features. CASPOC runs on all Windows. Licensing is availabe by Softlock, License Manager for the network license and Hardware Dongle.

Books

Advanced Electrical Drives, by Duco Pulle, Andre Veltman and Rik DeDoncker (All simulations and tutorials in this book are done using CASPOC)

What hardware configuration advice can you give for optimal performance?

What hardware configuration is required for optimal performance?

System Requirements:

64 bit operating system
Microsoft ® Windows Vista ®, Windows 7, Windows 8 or higher
If you encounter problems installing from a network drive, please contact INTEGRATED Technical Support
Installation requireds approximately 110 MB of disk space

2D Programs:

A minimum of 4 GB of RAM is required.
Although the software runs on single-processor machines, running it on multiprocessor sustem will allow the software to solve in a parallel fashion utilizing parallel resources.

3D Programs:

The programs will run with a minimum of 4 GB of RAM but this is not recommended for larger problems in which 12 GB of RAM or more should be used. The more RAM used, the faster larger problems will be solved
Multi-core processors are strongly recommended as the 3D programs are multi-threaded

INTEGRATED supports software products for 64 bit operating systems

For most of our customers, this announcement has no relevance as most companies have standardized hardware requirements that fit or exceed the 64 bit operating systems required by our company. INTEGRATED’s development tools used for advancements require the installation of 64 bit systems*.

Experience the full power of our simulation tools. Automatically reduce the solution time.

By running the software in a 64 bit system, the system is able to make more effective use of available RAM. The performance of the simulation is greatly affected by the power of the computer in use.

*The suppliers of the software tools we use have this requirement for us as well.

Available RAM versus Problem Size

For small problems the processor speed is the biggest consideration for calculations. If your processor works at twice the speed the problem will be solved in half the time. For larger problems, however, memory management progressively becomes a bigger and bigger consideration. If the memory needed to solve is larger than available RAM – then most of the problem is being swapped back and forth between RAM and the hard disk as the problem proceeds. The efficiency of this process becomes the biggest single factor in the speed of solving large problems. Since this is managed by Windows itself – taking account of other processes also running – we can do very little to help you optimize further from within our software, but can offer the following advice regarding the system setup:

Determine the size of problems you will be solving. This is reported in the Message Area as required disk space when the BEM solver begins. It is also reported for the existing element distribution from the menu Solution>Elements>Problem Size.
The importance of getting as much RAM as needed on a 64 bit system is illustrated by the benchmark results below for a challenging magnetic problem run on 4 different computers:
Comparison of solution times for a non-linear 3D magnetic model requiring 6 GB memory
The model took 6 hours to solve on a basic system and 3/4 hour to solve on a good system. There are many differences between the 4 systems used, leading to some noise in the plot. However, it is clear that the optimal solution is to use a 64 bit version of the software with more RAM available than the reported memory requirement.
2 hard drives: When choosing hard disk features access time is clearly important. You can set up the locations of the scratch files from Utilities>Settings. Out of various configurations we tested, this was the single most important factor in performing faster analyses when the memory required exceeded available RAM.
RAID ARRAY: using a RAID array lets you use multiple disks as a single drive letter, but will manage the access very efficiently. We configure our own systems such that IES software is installed on d: (a RAID array) with the program and scratch files using d:. For more generic information about configuring a RAID array on your computer, check HOW TO: Establish a Striped Volume (RAID 0) in Windows Server 2003 (Microsoft Knowledge Base).