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The OPAL-RT Power Electronics Add-On for NI VeriStand is a powerful FPGA-based simulation tool for Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing of controllers for power electronics applications. The Power Electronics Add-On combines the performance of several leading floating-point FPGA solvers developed by OPAL-RT Technologies with an intuitive workflow integrated directly within the NI VeriStand software suite to create a scalable and flexible HIL test bench.

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This documentation space details the Simulink Circuit workflow which uses Simscape Power Systems Simulink to create circuit models. If you are using the Schematic Editor to create circuit models, please refer to the Power Electronics Add-On for NI VeriStand - OPAL-RT Circuit - User Documentation Home space.

Power Electronics Add-On Features

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NI VeriStand

NI VeriStand is an application software developed and maintained by NI that enables the configuration of simulation models, I/O channels, data logging, stimulus generation, and host communication for NI real-time hardware.  Although this document does not focus on the features of VeriStand, it is useful to understand the typical VeriStand workflow and out-of-the-box features.  For more information and resources, please see What is VeriStand?

The VeriStand Environment includes the following major components:

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