Mike DonnellyThis example shows that you can build an inductor model from magnetic components (i.e. a winding and a core), and with an air-gap...
Electro-Magnetic Components
Learn the basic building-blocks of electro-magnetic circuits (winding, core, air-gap, etc.) and to assemble them into physical models of components such as transformers and solenoids. Their realistic behavior, like saturation, core-loss and back-EMF, is well suited for mechatronic system design analysis.
Application Area Featured Designs
Mike DonnellyThis is a physical or “assembly” model of an electro-magnetic circuit breaker. Rather that modeling the pure electrical “behavior”...
Mike DonnellyThis design is intended to show how our basic technology building block models can be combined to represent the essential physics...
Mike DonnellyThis "Live" example design includes a simple analog electronic amplifier, intended only to demonstrates the importance of multi...
Application Area Groups
Got Current Spikes? Soft-Saturation Inductors to the Rescue!
Featured Article - Submitted by Mike Donnelly on 15 Dec 2015 | 08:52 PST
Coilcraft has provided models of their XAL family of power inductors in the SystemVision Partner Library. This article shows the importance of the "soft saturation" magnetic characteristic of these parts, which can prevent catastrophic transient over-currents during start-up and other operating conditions.
New: Explore Live Energy Harvesting Designs
Featured Article - Submitted by Mike Donnelly on 9 May 2018 | 18:54 PDTIn a previous blog post, I provided a number of Energy Harvesting example designs that could be modeled and simulated in SystemVision. These included electrodynamic, thermal and solar energy harvesting for Industrial IoT and Automotive applications. Subsequent to that posting, we added a rich new capability to SystemVision, "Live Designs".