Publication date : Dec 2007
Paper File :
PAPER_-_CPRI_BANGALORE_121207_FINAL.pdf
Authors
Vincent Lapointe, Loic Schoen, Jean Bélanger, Christian Dufour,Abstract
This paper describes the architecture and specifications of advanced real-time simulators capable of accurately simulating electrical power grids and power electronic systems of any size. The OPAL-RT eMEGAsim simulator is based on modern high-performance distributed supercomputer technology comprised of off-the-shelf INTEL or AMD multi-core processors. Several eight-processor shared-memory supercomputer modules are interconnected with fast PCI Express communication links and IO systems controlled by Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Xilinx processors capable of executing sub-system models with time step below 250 nanoseconds. A brief history of the evolution of real-time simulators will be given followed by the main specification requirements for each type of application, a description of the simulator architecture and a typical application case.
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