Are IGBTs in PSIM and Multisim 7 Equivalent?

[skadd4life]

Hello!

Just signed up for this, my bf has been ranting and raving about it forever!

Short Intro:
Senior at Wayne State University (Detroit)...LAST ECE class! Power Electronics. Bad teacher, ridiculous class structure...you know the jist.

Doing a project for this class which is becoming completely self taught. Design an active power filter for load compensation.

So far I think I'm doing okay. I have a the demo version of PSIM, which has IGBT's that look the way I am familiar with them looking:

http://www.powerdesigners.com/InfoWeb/calculators/IGBTCalc/vsi.gif

(not that entire thing, but the switch in parralell with the diode)

The thing is that the PSIM demo won't run a simulation with a certain amount of elements and I haven't been able to get ahold of anyone at the company to buy it. So I think I am going to use Multisim 7 which I have a full version of.

Multisim 7 shows the IGBT component as something similar to:

http://www.powerdesigners.com/images/igbt2.gif



My question:

Are these two things equivalent?

Does anyone have any suggestions to make this work if they are not?

Thank you!
Crystal

 

[berkeman]

Can you post the models for each? You can tell how close they are by the underlying text model parameters for each. Welcome to PF, BTW.