Exhibitor’s sessions: descriptions
Exhibitor’s sessions: descriptions
Thursday 1 April
Room 2
13:50 – 14:05 Typhoon HIL
Typhoon HIL Fully-Integrated Toolchain: Streamlining the Development Cycle from Offline to HIL Simulation
Dr. Caio Osório
Typhoon HIL Fully-Integrated Toolchain – Learn how Typhoon HIL solutions simplify the adoption of model-based engineering, enabling you to accelerate development, reduce costs, and enhance the reliability of your projects. With Typhoon HIL’s fully integrated toolchain, engineers can design, test, and optimize controllers while seamlessly transitioning from offline simulations with TyphoonSim to high-fidelity HIL testing using flagship real-time simulators—enabling simulation, validation, and continuous testing from the very beginning.
14:35 – 14:50 Hitachi Energy
Advanced Semiconductor Solutions for High-Demand Applications: Progress and Future Trends by Hitachi energy
Virgiliu Botan, Global Product Manager
Hitachi Energy is at the forefront of the energy transformation with its system technologies and products like HVDC, Power Quality Control, High Voltage products and Transformers. The Power Semiconductors, the key components in the power electronics systems, are playing an essential role in increasing power level and guaranteeing the reliability. In the quest for ever increasing efficiency, the semiconductors are evolving both in terms of the chip technology but also in terms of packaging. Hitachi Energy presents the trends that are shaping now the high power semiconductor industry.
Wednesday 2 April
11:10 – 11:25 dSPACE
11:40 – 11:55 Tektronix
Test & Measurement solutions for WBG Technologies: Tektronix Approach & Strategy
Andy Getzman
12:00 – 12:15 Mersen
Solutions for Power Management
Jérome Michoux – Business Development & Marketing Manager
The megatrends around the new era of electrification are pushing back the boundaries of power distribution, and this fast-changing world is creating new constraints for passive components. Let’s go through them by analysing different applications and see how MERSEN is able to support customers in meeting these new technical and industrial requirements and how the collaboration with partners helps.
13:30 – 13:45 Volkswagen
The future of Automotive Power Electronics: Possibilities of High-Level Integration
Cornelius Rettner
Automotive power electronics started with singular components for each function and have evolved into integrated entities combining multiple functions and components. This presentation provides insights into the challenges and opportunities of high-level integration for future automotive power electronics in modern battery electric vehicles.
13:50 – 14:05 Opal RT Technologies
The fast and the furious: latest FPGA-based Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing Solver – now on NI
Timo Roesch
In today’s rapidly evolving power electronics landscape, development timelines are becoming increasingly compressed. Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulation has become a well-established method for enabling development-parallel testing, hence accelerating innovation. In this presentation we will live-demonstrate our latest FPGA-based solver innovation, which provides a very flexible and easy-to-use workflow – recently available also with NI-based HIL Systems. It’s made to achieve high accuracy with demanding topologies like DAB’s, LLC’s and for high switching frequencies of even 500kHz.
14:35 – 14:50 Speedgoat
Developing and Testing Grid-forming Inverters Using High-Fidelity Power Electronics Models
Carlos Villegas, Electrification Industry Manager
This session explores the development of grid-forming inverters using Model-Based Design and Speedgoat test systems. Beginning with desktop simulation in Simulink and Simscape Electrical, detailed models of grids, generators, power converters, and renewable energy sources are integrated with advanced control algorithms. Rapid control prototyping follows, leveraging Speedgoat test systems as controllers to validate designs through high-fidelity I/O and communication protocols.
The final validation stages include hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and power HIL testing to ensure robust performance of the embedded controller and inverter under realistic operating conditions. This includes high-fidelity power electronics simulations with closed-loop sample times as low as 10 nanoseconds. Speedgoat test systems enable real-time grid simulation and interface with power amplifiers to emulate grids, batteries, and generators, validating grid-connected inverters and electrical equipment. Attendees will gain insights into a complete workflow for developing reliable grid-forming inverters through FPGA-based high-fidelity modeling and real-time testing.
