Key Features

Below are some of the key features of eMEGAsim developed as a result of Opal-RT’s close collaboration with our customers and the company’s constant investment in Research & Development:

Maximum performance and availability with COTS

• Modern commercial supercomputer technology
• Long-term support, availability and upgradeability using standard x86 computers
• Time step values as low as 1 and 10 microseconds using multiple multi-core INTEL or AMD processors
• Very small time step values below 250 nanoseconds using FPGA co-processors
• Extreme modularity and expandability
• FPGA-based expandable I/O and support of commercial I/O boards

Operating flexibility, openness and use of industry standard tools

• Multiple studies simultaneously for real-time and off-line simulations
• Runs any LINUX or Windows applications
• Advanced test automation with open-source PYTHON scripts
• Real-time or post-processing results analysis with Simulink and Real Time Workshop (RTW)
• Interactive and fast user re-configurable GUI using industry standard LABVIEW
• Integration with multi-domain modeling tools such as DYMOLA and AMEsim

Tight integration with SIMULINK

• User models developed with SIMULINK block diagram editors
• Well documented and proven state-space solver for complex models
• User developed C-Code models
• Automatic C-Code generation for control development and prototyping
• Integration with more than 30 toolboxes and physical modeling tools
• Automatic code generation of FPGA co-processors with block diagram

EMTP-RV Interface

• EMTPWorks one-line and tree-phase circuit diagram GUI
• Generate eMEGAsim real-time simulator data from EMTPWorks data
• Compare results between EMTP-RV and eMEGAsim

Rich library of validated model components for AC grid and power electronics

• SimPowerSystems model components validated by Hydro-Quebec, The MathWorks, OPAL-RT, a number of universities, and thousands of users in multiple industries
• Hundreds of Simulink control blocks validated by over one million users
• RTeDRIVE advanced Firing and Converter model library with real-time interpolation validated by Mitsubishi and Toyota with actual laboratory results
• Simulation of large power electronic multi-level converters with hundreds of switches
• Simulation of large AC circuits and filters with more than 150 nodes without decoupling elements
• More than 40 ready-to-use examples of power grid and drive models

Sophisticated data login and on-line parameter controls

• Circular buffer on each target computer to store and transfer results to the host station over Ethernet in real-time
• Multiple data acquisition groups with individual triggering functions
• Dynamic data recording and signal selection at run time without stopping and recompiling the model – no need to define the list of signals to record before loading the simulation
• Dynamic modification of all control system parameters at run time – no need to stop the model and to specify the list of control parameters to modify before loading the models