REAL-TIME SIMULATION OF A 12-PULSE FULL CONVERTER

Within this paper, a method for the real-time simulation of a twelve-p ulse full converter is described. The method is based on a finite-diff erence simulation of the homogeneous state model of the converter with the inputs clamped over an integer multiple of solution time steps. T he simulation code described was written in FORTRAN and executed on IB M RISC System/6000 machines. The computation time required for each si mulation time step was 40 mu s, which satisfied the real-time constrai nt. The resultant code is suitable for inclusion in a system-level sim ulator where multiple subsystems are simulated in parallel on multiple processors.