Cauer-Equivalent Circuit for Inductors Considering Hysteresis Magnetic Properties for SPICE Simulation

Abstract

This article presents a new method to synthesize the Cauer-equivalent circuit for inductors that can represent the hysteresis, eddy current, anomalous core losses, dc and ac winding losses as well as inductance. Only the measurement of inductor loss under the sinusoidal excitation is required to synthesize the SPICE loss model. The proposed circuit model can be used to evaluate the loss under arbitrary voltage/current excitations. In the proposed approach, the measured loss is subdivided into the ac and hysteresis losses. Then, the Cauer-equivalent circuit for SPICE simulation is synthesized from the loss model. It is shown that the losses evaluated by the proposed model are in good agreement with the measured results under the condition of the sinusoidal and triangular cases with and without dc bias current.