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Turning Ideas into Products
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The Triphase design flow empowers people and companies to realize
innovative power electronics applications in a very short time.
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Enabling innovation
In our experience, innovation occurs when people are able to focus on
generating and testing ideas without being hampered by implementation
delays and a long time-to-hardware. Triphase therefore offers a design
flow that dramatically simplifyies the path from initial idea to
final product. Key aspects of the Triphase design flow are:
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Enabling engineers to focus on innovation and creativity,
especially during the design stages when they must be able to generate
and test new ideas at high frequency. Design and test cycles must be a
matter of minutes or hours, not of days or weeks.
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Detecting potential design problems as early as possible by testing ideas on
hardware as rapidly as possible. By doing so, costly redesigns are avoided.
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Providing a direct link from prototype to product. Once an idea has proven
succesful, time-to-market should be as short as possible.
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Steps in the Triphase design flow
The Triphase design flow implements a gradual
transition from idea to final power electronics hardware.
The flow is easily integrated into existing product design flows. It defines the following steps:
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In a first step, ideas are tested in simulation in
order to verify their potential. This step is, for
example, carried out
using popular tools for modeling and simulation such as
Matlab/Simulink.
During this step, Triphase can offer support through consultancy and
training courses on the modeling of power electronics systems and the
design of algorithms to control them.
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In a second step, ideas and
algorithms are put into practice by prototyping them onto Triphase
Smart Inverter programmable
hardware platforms.
Triphase Smart Inverters are general purpose setups that can be used to
prototype a wide variety op applications ranging from motor drives to
power grid interfacing. Matlab/Simulink schematics created during the
first step can be downloaded directly on the target platforms and
tested against real hardware. This dramatically shortens design and
test cycles while reveiling potential problems early on in the design.
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Once the prototype is fully
functional, Triphase provides two paths towards a final product. In a
first apporach, the Triphase
Smart Inverter technology is embedded
into the customer
product. Software developed during previous stages of the design
can immediately be reused for purpose of production. In this
way, time from prototype to product is kept to a minimum. Also, this solution
keeps most of the flexibility of the prototyping platform. As an
alternative, we also offer assistance in realizing a custom
hardware implementation.
Contact us
for more information on our design flow and how it could help you to realize your ideas and to
speed up your designs.
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