TABLE OF CONTENTS This chapter shows how power electronics circuits, electric motors, and drives, can be simulated with modern simulation programs. The main focus will be on PSpice , which is one of the most widely used general-purpose simulation programs and Simplorer , which is more specialized towards the power electronics and motor drives application area. Ali Ricardo Buendia, who obtained his M.S.E.E. degree from Texas Tech University, has created the examples for Simplorer . The PSpice examples have been developed for the free student version of OrCAD Capture 9.1 from Cadence. The author found the use of examples that can be run on the student version very beneficial in an educational environment, since such examples can be shared with students to enhance their understanding of the lecture material. This shall by no means lead to the conclusion, that the programs and simulations presented here cannot be used for serious professional work. In fact, the author has used these tools with great success in many research and consulting projects. In addition to the programs mentioned above, MathCAD has been used to derive and present the underlying equations. The advantage of using MathCAD for this purpose is that in MathCAD it is possible to check equations by actually executing them.
The examples have been developed to illustrate advanced techniques for...
