Yaskawa Drive Simulator - Manual (Page 3)

TM.AFD.Simulator Page 3
Please note that this equipment is intended for qualified engineering personnel only, familiar with Yaskawa Drives and
technical principles of variable speed AC drives and/or software engineering.
2. Features and Applications:
• CASE development: As this unit provides all the digital and analog I/O available in the control cards with the
monitoring and measurement capabilities, it will be ideal for any level of CASE design and verification.
• Firmware development: In addition to the general I/O, different emulators provide reference, feedback, load
and power factor virtual signals for the firmware designer to test under the most realistic environment, even
for different PWM index implementations.
• Drive application engineering: Versatile communication routers, loading emulators, reference and feedback
encoders and generators capabilities, in addition to I/O handling and easy-access test points, will make it ideal
for application verifications and testing.
• Wizard software and utilities development and testing: In addition to all the above, External Access/PLC
port-EAP opens a gate to automatic repetitive tests, usually required for communication software
verifications. The manual or externally controlled automatic power recycling is another unique feature to help
out the software test and development engineers.
• Hardware Development: The realistic physical environment, access to all ports and signals, easy access test
points, measurement and monitoring features, actual PWM signal outputs, dual encoder emulations and
extensive test points and EAP, will all be the ultimate platform for hardware development.
• Cross Referencing of different drive generations: In order to compare drives performances for an application
or even having all the above features for other old or new drives, their control cards can easily be tested on
this unit through cable adaptors. Therefore it can replace most of the present or even future test units.
• Automatic Test Setup: Almost all the hardware and software platforms, options, extensions, communication
protocols and controls, Wizard tools and Test tools can be either implemented for production or tested during
their development phases.
Figure 2: Simulator with G7 control card installed and running under simulated load