Behavioral modelling of PROFET™ devices for system-level simulation of mission profiles in automotive environment applications

In this work we present a system-simulation approach to model the behavior of PROFET™ devices for automotive applications. Attention has been paid to the simulation speed, given the necessity to simulate long mission profiles in a short amount of time. PLECS has been chosen as a simulation tool, thanks to its system-level approach to the solution of electrical circuits and systems; the work shows how to implement the basic behavioral features described in the PROFET™ datasheet, and how some typical electric features, which would normally be analyzed with a SPICE-like simulator, have been included.