PLECS Workshop, On-Site

​Advanced Modeling and Simulation of Power Electronic Systems

08:15

Registration

08:30

Introduction to PLECS

  • General use of PLECS Blockset and PLECS Standalone

  • Instantaneous switching

  • Variable and fixed step operation

Exercise: Modeling a switched-mode power supply

10:00

Break

10:30

Solver Settings

  • Definition of stiff and non-stiff systems

  • Explicit and non-explicit solvers

  • Stability domains

  • Accuracy considerations, step size control

  • Proper handling of discontinuities, zero-crossing detection

11:30

Lunch Break

12:30

Introduction to Thermal Simulation

  • Switching & conduction loss descriptions

  • Combined electrical-thermal simulation

  • Determining loss values from data sheets

Exercise: Thermal modelling of a buck converter

14:00

Break

14:30

Bringing Simulation and Real Hardware Together

(Code Generation Workflow in PLECS)

  • Automatic code generation for microcontrollers

  • Plant code generation for the RT Box

  • Nanostep®, FlexArray and CPU solver engines

  • Real-time-simulation with 4ns step size for MHz switching

Demonstration: HIL Testbench with Microcontroller and RT Box

15:30

Q&A

15:45

End of Day

 

Documentation & spoken language: English

The seminar is free of charge. Please bring a laptop.

City: 
Zurich
Country: 
Switzerland
Date: 
Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 - 8:30 am
Speaker: 

Plexim Power Electronics Engineers

Registration: 

Jan Hermann
info@plexim.com, +41 44 533 51 28

Venue: 

Plexim GmbH
3rd Floor, Zeppelin Wing
Technoparkstrasse 1
8005 Zurich
Switzerland

Flyer: 
PDF icon Workshop_Program_Plexim_2026.pdf

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