Christian Dufour

1999-2024 ARTEMiS simulation software team leader, Opal-RT Technologies, Montréal, Quebec, Canada. * Specialist in HIL simulators, real-time systems, with ultra-low latency, CPU and FPGA. * Main developer of the ARTEMiS real-time simulation blockset for Simulink. * Inventor of the SSN solver for EMT simulation. Direction of development teams for ARTEMiS under Agile paradigm. * ARTEMiS triggered total sales of over 100M$ ! * Coding languages: C, C++, Assembly, Python, MATLAB coding. * Other tools: Git (GitLab), CI (Jenkins), Jira * Power systems and converter modeling and simulation. * IEC-61850 protocol for SCADA systems and IEDs. 2007-2024 Lead FPGA researcher for electric system modeling, Opal-RT Technologies * Development of algorithms for FPGA-based ultra-low latency simulation, motor drives models, sensors and test modules on Xilinx Virtex 2-6 and Versal FPGA * US Patent #9,665,672 B2 US was obtain during this time and is still used in Opal-RT eHS-gen4 FPGA simulator. * Finite-Element-Analysis (JMAG-RT, Ansys-Maxwell) : RT-simulation on FPGA. * Coding langages : VHDL, Xilinx System Generator, Vivado.

* Development of a bar-code reader and relay mechanism on Raspberry Pi4. * Coding languages: Java, Python. Pi4 OS: Linux. * I/O interfaces made to external relay and commercial bar-core reader.

Lecture on ‘Computer structure and applications’ With laboratories on Linux computers. Subject: computer structure, low, level programming in C and Linux

* Development of simulation models for missile tracking devices in Simulink. Modeling of gimbal dynamics.

* Design and coding of algorithm for the simulation of power system and drives for SimPowerSystems version 1.0 for Simulink (The Mathworks, Natick, USA). * Design of algorithms for the HYPERSIM real-time power system simulator of Hydro-Quebec research center (IREQ)

* Design of fiber-optic hand-held laser-diode based measurements systems. * Hardware design of the electronic control cards and micro-controller coding. * Exemple ‘FOT-900 Fiber Optic Test System’ with Intel P87C51Fb micro-controller (assembly code) and dual fiber optic lasers (1300 and 1550nm).

Thesis on real-time simulation of power systems using L-stable discretization solvers. ARTEMiS and SSN were developed in this thesis. SSN is a novel DAE equation solver that combined state-space modeling and nodal admittance solver using L-stable discretization methods. Licensed and commercialized by Opal-RT Technologies since 2000.

In this thesis, I implemented a complex frequency- dependent transmission line model into a Texas-Instrument dual-DSP computer.

I finished 1st of the 1990 promotion.