Speed showdown of Qspice for complex power supply simulation

Hi All,

First, thanks Mike Engelhardt with the team and also to Qorvo for this incredible simulator.

I have been making a simulation for a totem pole PFC with digital control.

I used a C-block to simulate the discrete controller as well as the detail PWM timing that mimic the TI-C2000 pwm block behavior (its not as simple as duty>carrier) including the deadtime and some additional gating logic that I will implement on the real circuit.

Additionally, C-block is used to carefully calculate the next timestep by making a simple timestep estimation algorithm and also modifying the Trunc() block.

The result is, 2 sec simulation time that is completed in 27sec for a switching PFC with Fsw = 65kHz. Which I think is very impressive as it is comparable (if not faster) than PSIM/PLECs…
*unfortunately I cant confirm the speed in those simulator as I dont have license for them.

*sorry, I cant upload the whole simulation file as it is related to my work in my company…

Arief,

Full simulation waveform

Deadtime waveform

Deadtime effect at current zero crossing

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That is very impressive! Please feel free to share that news with the TI C2000 team. We’d love to work with them to implement their parts in C++.

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I dont think more detailed implementation of TI MCU is necessary, it shouldnot improve the accuracy any further.

It would be great if you can share the simulation file.