CPES - Workshop on Integration of Software Tools for Power Electronic Design 11/30/99 Rev CPES - ISTPED Workshop Roanoke, VA Integrated Multidisciplinary Data Converter Design B. Beihoff Rockwell Automation Solid State Power Lab Mequon, WI.

CPES - Workshop on Integration of Software Tools for Power Electronic Design 11/30/99 Rev OUTLINE Work Flow for Power Electronics Engineering Tools Integration Strategy Translation Strategies Future Requirements Conclusion and Recommendations

CPES - Workshop on Integration of Software Tools for Power Electronic Design 11/30/99 Rev Work Flow for Power Electronics Engineering Application Requirement Marketing Product Request Engineering Specification Power Concept Control Concept Alpha Test Bed BetaIndustrializationDetail Design Electrical Test Files Thermal Imaging Thermal Monitoring Vibration Solid Models FEM Solid Models FEM Electrical Models Field Models Solid Models FEM Electrical Models Field Models Electrical Test Files Mechanical Test Files Solid Models FEM Electrical Models Field Models Electrical Test Files Mechanical Test Files Solid Models FEM Electrical Models Field Models Solid Models FEM Electrical Models Field Models Electrical Test Files Solid Models Mechanical Tests

CPES - Workshop on Integration of Software Tools for Power Electronic Design 11/30/99 Rev Tools Electromechanical Design Electrical Power Design Control Design Solid Models FEM Field Models Thermal Models PCB Design Power Circuit Simulation Small Signal Simulation PCB Design Control Modeling ASIC Design Small Signal Simulation PCB Design Mixed Signal Simulation ANSYS Maxwell Saber Pro_E Ideas Mentor PADS etc …. P-Spice Saber Mentor PADS Simulink Easy_5 ACSL SIMPLIS etc …... Mentor View Logic p-Spice Cadence Simulink Saber Etc... MANY RELATED TOOLS.. WHAT ABOUT THE DATA ?

CPES - Workshop on Integration of Software Tools for Power Electronic Design 11/30/99 Rev Integration Strategy Premise: Data Forms required are more Similar than even already similar Engineering Tool types, therefore: Thesis: Tool Integration Could Be Accomplished by a Common Smart Data Structure Premise: Power Electronics requires maximum data sharing between Engineering Tools Thesis: Two Phases of Integration of Tools are suggested: - Translation to Common Data Format - Native Tool Integration of Common Data Format

CPES - Workshop on Integration of Software Tools for Power Electronic Design 11/30/99 Rev Translation Strategies Engineering Tool1 Structured Data Engineering Tool 2 Structured Translator Engineering Tool1 Engineering Tool 2 Structured Data Structured Data Kernel Level Translation PHASE I PHASE II

CPES - Workshop on Integration of Software Tools for Power Electronic Design 11/30/99 Rev Translation Strategies Thermal Field EM Assembly Solids Layout Electrical Model Data Characteristics Needed: - Variational, Parametric Solids - S, N, SL, HDL Matrices - Hierarchical & Relational ASCII - Encapsulated Binary

CPES - Workshop on Integration of Software Tools for Power Electronic Design 11/30/99 Rev Translation Strategies The Road to Translation Capability … Universal IGES I-5 DXF IGES 7-11 DPF GERBER ETF - M EDIF I & II B -Spice Net Nist_Spice Net M-Circuit ACIS -XM Patran - NF Parasolid Mdeck STEP I PDES -STEP II ISO/IEC A Data Structure That has Demonstrated Bridging the Gaps

CPES - Workshop on Integration of Software Tools for Power Electronic Design 11/30/99 Rev Future Requirements & Recommendations Active Participation by the Community in Making ISO/IEC a Living Standard and a Standard that we can live with... Extension of ISO/IEC to include additional data structures such as pipelined data trees … Cooperation from Tool Vendors and Industry to make a workable open system out of this standard … The Power Electronics Community can serve as a test platform for the effort because of it’s multidisciplinary data transportability needs ….