Seminar Description: Software tools are indispensable in development of modern power supplies, from simple calculations, like the estimation of core losses with the Steinmetz equation, to advanced simulation tools, like thermal simulations in Finite Elements software, including magnetic design automation or circuit simulation in LTspice.
Many of these calculations can be implemented on Excel spreadsheets, which are widely used for the early design stages of many custom power components. While being quite flexible and its learning curve quite low, these spreadsheets often fail at more complex tasks, like advanced modeling.
This seminar proposes Python as a tool for Power Engineer, which expands the limit of things that can be modeled, and works a glue between different tools already used, providing the possibility of high automation.
