Simulink® Users Can Now Take Advantage of RT-LAB™ XSG to Reach 200 kHz Model Sampling with Opteron™ Dual-Core and 2 MHz with Xilinx® System Generator
Opal-RT introduces RT-LAB XSG, a new generation of wideband multi-processor engineering simulators reaching supercomputer performance for hard real-time simulation applications. RT-LAB XSG simulators integrate one or more dual-core AMD Opteron 64-bit processors, high-end Xilinx FPGA, fast OP5100 input-output interfaces and RedHawk, Real-Time Linux, with Simulink and multi-domain simulation tools such as Dymola, AMESim and CarSim. Read More

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Opal-RT Opens a New Office in Dallas Fort Worth to Service the Defense, Aerospace and Electrical Markets in the Southern USA
Opal-RT Corporation announces the opening of the new Dallas Fort Worth office, to better service customers in the southern USA as well as the defense, aerospace and electrical markets. Marcus Lites and Tim Magisos staff the Dallas Fort Worth office. Both Lites and Magisos are veterans of the modeling and simulation market, as well as the COTS embedded systems market.

Lites and Magisos have 14 years of MATRIXx experience, and have been involved with a wide variety of applications in the areas of missile guidance, aircraft controls, launch vehicles, spacecraft, propulsion systems, automotive applications, industrial controls and other land based vehicles. Read More

RT-LAB XSG - Ultra Fast Real-Time Models and I/Os
Fully Integrated with Simulink Targeting Xilinx Virtex II Pro
With the release of RT-LAB XSG, Opal-RT pushes its distributed simulation paradigm down to FPGA reprogrammable processors. Already allowing the user to distribute the computation of a complex plant or controller model on multiple computation nodes based on PC hardware, RT-LAB XSG now allows the use of dedicated FPGA processors for sub-microsecond computation loops. Read More

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RT-LAB Support for AMD's New Dual-Core Opteron Processors
RT-LAB has been fully tested on the recently launched dual core AMD Opteron processor. The AMD Opteron processor is an x86 dual core processor for 32-and 64-bit computing. Read More

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RT-LAB 7.2.4 Now Available for Download!

EVENTS
When you are in the area please stop by and visit us at the following events:

November 2005

The Sixth International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS)
Opal-RT Booth #1
November 28 - December 1, 2005
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Paper Title: Hardware-In-the-Loop Simulation of Power Drives
with RT-LAB
Presenter: Simon Abourida
Date: Thursday, December 1, 2005
Session and Time: Session Five: Test and Measurement, fifth paper 2:00 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.

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Automotive Web Seminar
Subject: Application of RT-LAB and Real-time Simulation in Automotive Engineering
Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Presenter: Wensi Jin, Automotive Business Development Manager
Register Today

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December 2005

MATLAB Expo - Japan
Opal-RT with NEAT (Japanese distributor)
December 6-7, 2005
Japan

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Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA)Conference
Opal-RT Booth # 122
December 6 - 8, 2005
Vancouver, BC

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DéciElec - Business Convention for On Board Systems
Opal-RT with B2i (France Distributor)
December 7-8, 2005
Tarbes, France

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Paper Title: RT-LAB Real Time Simulation of Electric Drives and Systems
Presenter: Girish Nanjundaiah
Presentation Date: December 22, 2005

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From our download section you can find the following new technical papers and presentations:

Technical Papers Presented at the European Power Electronics Conference (EPE) September 11-14, 2005 Dresden, Germany

• Real-Time HIL Simulation of a Complete PMSM Drive at 10 µs Time Step
  Simon Abourida, Christian Dufour, Jean Bélanger - Opal-RT Technologies Inc.
  This paper presents the fastest-ever-reported, real-time (RT) simulation of an AC drive on PC-cluster. The RT simulator is used to simulate a complete PMSM drive circuit in a Hardware-In-The-Loop (HIL) application. It consists of a PMSM fed by a 3-phase IGBT inverter, a DC link capacitor and a 3-phase diode bridge. Read More (pdf)
  
• Real-Time Simulation of Matrix Converter Drives
  Christian Dufour - Opal-RT Technologies, Lexang Wei - Rockwell Automation, Thomas A. Lipo - University of Wisconsin
  This paper describes a real time simulator of matrix converter system. The simulated plant is a classical matrix converter with source, input filter and load. The simulator is based on the RT-LAB real time simulation platform, which enables easy model-to-target designs from Simulink models. The simulator is designed to accept real IGBT/GTO/MOSFET firing pulses from high performance I/Os thus permitting matrix converter controller testing in hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulations.
  Read More (pdf)

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Technical Paper Presented at Global Powertrain Congress (GPC) September 27-29, 2005 Detroit, Michigan

• Real-Time Simulation of PEM-Based Fuel-Cell Hybrid Electric Vehicles
  Christian Dufour - Opal-RT Technologies Inc., Tuhin K Das- Emmeskay inc.
  This paper presents results on real-time simulation of a PEM-based fuel-cell hybrid electric vehicle. The hybrid electric vehicle is composed of a battery, a fuel cell, a DC-DC converter and a choice of PMSM or induction motor drive. This circuit is modeled in part with special interpolating IGBT bridge models that are very accurate despites the high carrier frequency of the various converters (10 kHz). The Emmeskay fuel cell stack model is used for the simulation and runs in real-time on standard PC under the RT-LAB software.
  Read More (pdf)

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Technical Paper Presented at the Huntsville Simulation Conference October 25-27, 2005 Huntsville, Alabama

• Real-Time Digital Simulation and Control Laboratory
  for Distributed Power Electronic Generation and Distribution
  Jean Bélanger, Simon Abourida and Christian Dufour
  - Opal-RT Technologies Inc.
  Complex power generation and distribution systems are needed on board spacecrafts, all electric warships, hybrid electric vehicles, distributed energy systems and other applications requiring compact, flexible autonomous energy generation systems. Several generators and complex active loads will be interconnected through power electronic distribution systems that must be designed to ensure voltage quality and system security under several normal and abnormal operating conditions. Read More (pdf)

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