Platform for fast evaluation and optimization of power systems

Modeling tools used to analyze power supply systems usually rely on detailed and complex models, thus taking a long simulation time. Due to the acceleration of time to market of today's computing platforms, it is required reach at a feasible solution in a short amount of time. This paper describes a toolkit developed to improve the design flow power systems with a large number of loads. The main characteristic of these tools is that they allow the designer to create simulation models to validate millions of possible configurations and to select the best candidate according to the electrical specifications, cost and size targets of the application. Because the number of possible power architectures for a given application may be huge, the presented toolkit apply different evolutionary optimization techniques to simplify the problem.