Can / Am

EMTP News
Brief Listing of ATP Rule Book Related Items

1990 to 2001

Sorted according to
Rule Book Chapters

The ATP Rule Book has only been updated over the last 10 years by
revising a few chapters such as LINE CONSTANTS, Nonlinear Elements,
TACS, BCTRAN, STARTUP file etc. A large number of announcements of
ATP program revisions, additions, modifications, corrections and
improvements have been announced in the quarterly edition of the
Can/Am EMTP News. For both new and long standing ATP users it has
become very difficult to keep abreast of the new features of ATP. At
present program developers in Portland, OR, USA are working on a
revision of the Rule Book, but it will be a while before it becomes available
to users. In the interim, as a help to scan the EMTP News, an extract of
the Rule Book related items was prepared covering the period 1990 to
2001. One version was sorted chronologically, the other according to Rule
Book chapters. The tabulations show the subject matter, the EMTP News
issue, and the BENCHMARK data file where such is available.

Prepared by

Gabor Furst (Canada)

 Date RB Description BENCHMARK Comment
Section File
April 1991 The BOTH option for starting ATP
April 1992 Multiphase transformer model by Prof. Chen ?
April 1993 KNTPLT serializes batch plots
Oct. 1993 NEW LIST SIZES dynamic dimensioning DC–22; DC-27
April 1994 MATLAB data files comments
April 1994 PL4TOMAT MATLAB conversion by Pisa Fargo server
July 1994 SET CTRLBK=NOTRAP in Autoexec.bat Interrupt execution
Oct. 1994 Phase domain modeling of frequency Also SSONLY in
dependent lines by Arma model STARTUP
Oct. 1994 Mouse input used in SPY XVI – C
July 1995 CUSTOM PLOT FILE change precision
Oct. 1995 Discussions on Trapezoidal Rule and Oscillations
Oct. 1995 Noda Frequency Dependence – ARMAFIT DC–31, 41
DCNEW–4, 13
Oct. 1995 USE SEATTLE XFORMER DC – 31
Jan. 1996 ZNO surge arrester modeling paper reference
Jan. 1996 C.I.G.R.E. HVDC test case by Dykas at ORNL
Jan. 1996 Numerical oscillations, trapezoidal rule
continued
April 1996 ATPDIR allows remote storage of disk files
April 1996 PL42MAT converts ATP to Matlab University of Pisa
July 1996 NOTMAX with SPY prevents simulation end
when TMAX reached
July 1996 Modeling synchronous = voltage source 96 SM 465-5 PWRD;
converters IEEE paper
July 1996 ATP on Apple Macintosh by Stu Cook
Jan. 1997 PCPLOT enhancements
Jan. 1997 Generator modeling using Z0, Z1, Z2 comments only
Jan. 1997 GNU under LINUX
Jan. 1997 POSPROCESS PLOT FILE with TACS DC – 48
HYBRID
April 1997 GNU ATP under DOS
April 1997 GBUPLOT features
April 1997 INDUCTION MOTOR DATA see also Indmot.exe
secure servers

July 1998 More on High Order PI Circuits DC – 4 ?

July 1998 IF – THEN – ENDIF in ATP input data
July 1998 GTTPLOT and PLOTXY announcements
Oct. 1998 GTTPLOT update
Jan. 1999 252 page EMTP book in Japanese in Japanese only
Jan. 1999 Superposition of phasor solution DCNEW–26 / 6
Jan. 1999 SUPERIMPOSE DCNEW–26 / 9 also DC–51, DC–52
DCNEW–26/6
April 1999 PLOTXY used as SPYPLOT
April 1999 $OPEN STATUS=APPEND for PLOTXY DC – 49
April 1999 ESTIMATE ACTUAL TABLE SIZES instruct ATP to
dimension itself
April 1999 TO SUPPORTING PROGRAM DC – 41/2,3,4 request to support in-line
execution of program to
produce data
April 1999 DO loop in ATP DC – 58
April 1999 GTPPLOT’s COMTRADE output
April 1999 Concurrent plotting with PLOTXY DC – 49 see also July 99 issue
Apr. 2000 Java output by GTPPLOT/DISLIN

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July 2000 Use of PCVP with STATISTICS or DC – 59 / 11
SYSTEMATIC
July 2001 Multiple $PARAMETER blocks DCNEW–19/1
DCNEW–25/8
Jan. 1990 ? PCPLOT reads FOMATTED and
UNFORMATTED
Jan. 1992 ? LINE MODEL FREQUENCY SCAN EMTP News Sept. 1991
July 1992 ? Lower case for “c” for comments DC – 3
Oct. 1992 ? /PARAMS – ATP execution DC – 68 ?
Oct. 1992 ? WP5LOOK read Word Perfect files
Oct. 1992 ? FIND with Monte Carlo simulation DC – 24
Jan. 1993 ? Phase XFORMER modeling by Prof. Chen not clear what happened
to this
April 1993 ? Three phase trans. modeling by Prof. Chen DC-31
Multiphase transformer simulation
April 1993 ? CHENSPR utility 6ph pi cct. to represent
transformers
April 1993 ? Kizilcay’s Frequency Dependence DC – 23
Oct. 1994 ? Kizilcay’s Frequency dependent equivalent IIEEE, PES paper, Vol. 3
No.2
Jan. 1995 ? POSTPROCESS PLOT FILE DC – 46
Jan. 1995 ? NODA Frequency Dependence NODA DC – 27;
SETUP DC – 59 sub. 8
Apr. 1995 ? Macintosh ATP by Stu Cook
Apr. 1995 ? TRUNCATE utility
July 1995 ? STARTUP on the command line
Oct. 1995 ? $DEPOSIT DC – 6
Jan. 1997 ? NOGNU for GNUOPLOT ?
April 1997 ? LISTZIZE.BIG large list dimensions
April 1997 ? FINDFIL and $EOF ?
July 1997 ? LIMCRD Number of data
cards(records) allowed
July 1997 ? OBSERVE PARALLEL MONTE CARLO ?
July 1997 ? MINIMUM TABLE SIZES LISTSIZE.DAT ?
Jan. 1998 ? ARMAFIT ; NODA SETUP source of Instructions ftp.
etc.
April 1998 ? ARA<AFIT continued from Jan. 1998
April 1998 ? ALLOW EVEB PLOT FREQUENCY one period in the PL4 file
Oct. 1998 ? REPEATABLE RANDOM NUMBERS; DC – 24 requests, see also
TRULY RANDOM NUMBERS Backflash.dat on ftp
servers
Oct. 1998 ? LIZ30 limiting number of NODA circuits DCNEW – 14
Jan. 1999 ? LISRSIZE20K
July 1999 ? .LIS file error termination WATCOM only ?
July 1999 ? Upper and lower case file names created by
ATP
July 1999 ? NEW OUTPUT FILE two or more output files
allowed
July 1999 ? Superimposed phasor solutions DCNEW–26/14
July 1999 ? The DISLIN graphics program description, GTPPLOT
use
Oct. 1999 ? Positive LUNTEX – external program text
Oct. 1999 ? COMP6.BAT with WATCOM See also January issue
Oct. 1999 ? DC – 41 / c installation dependent DC – 41 / 3 illustrate TO
SUPPORTING PR..
Oct. 1999 ? RESISTOR as environmental variable DCNEW – 25
Oct. 1999 ? DISLIN use by GNU
Oct. 1999 ? $LOAD NEW.AUX FILE DC – 37
Oct. 1999 ? $SEND SCREEN PLOT DC – 37

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Oct. 1999 ? CENTRAL STATISTICS FILE DC – 66
Jan 2000 ? New Macintosh ATP by Cook
Jan 2000 ? GTPPLOT improvements
Jan 2000 ? CENTRAL STATISTICS FILE DC – 66
Apr. 2000 ? Comments on compiler and List sizes
Apr. 2000 ? GTPPLOT commands
Apr. 2000 ? Improvements to NEW LIST SIZES DC – 22/4, 5
July 2000 ? Comments on NEW LIST SIZES DC – 47
July 2000 ? Variable PI of MODELS precision
July 2000 ? More on trapezoidal rule oscillations DC – 53 / 4
July 2000 ? MATLAB integrated with TACS/MODLS by Harald Wehrend
July 2000 ? Macintosh ATP improvements
Oct. 2000 ? Trapezoidal rule oscillations DCNEW–30/ illustration with diodes
5,7,8
Oct. 2000 ? STATISTICS Output of PL4 files for each
step IPLOT = 54321
Oct. 2000 ? OVERLAY and APPEND for PL4 DC–40/4,DC-49
Oct. 2000 ? NEW OUTPUT FILE declaration
Jan. 2001 ? Kizilcay Frequency Dependence limits DC – 23 / 4, 7
Jan. 2001 ? Watcom STOPTP error correction
Jan. 2001 ? Compensation troubled by Switches DCNEW–16/8
Jan. 2001 ? Kizilcay Frequency Dependence and USE Dc – 37 / 8
AR
Jan. 2001 ? GTTPLOT improvements
April 2001 ? $PARAMETER use of RAN (random)
April 2001 ? POCKET.DAT DCNEW–19/4
April 2001 ? MODELS processing PCVP loop DCNEW–25/5
April 2001 ? MODELS POCESSES EXTREMA
April 2001 ? COM2PL4 in GTPPLOT to converts ASCII
to widenn
July 2001 ? Compatibility of MODELS comment cards DC – 68 / 8
with TACS
July 2001 ? MODELS Primer available EEUG secure web site
July 2001 ? PCVP – $PARAMETER IF-THEN…. DCNEW–
applications in HFS etc. 26/17,18
July 2001 ? Type – 10 source with block “if” logic DCNEW – 19
July 2001 ? Modify scalar variables recognized by SPY
July 2001 ? SAVE declaration to declare PCVP DCNEW–26/4
variables “local’
July 2001 ? Pisa-format PL4 files compatible now with DCNEW–21/15
PLOTXY
Oct. 2001 ? MODELS improvements to WRITE1,
WRITE2
Oct. 2001 ? MODELS demonstration DC – 33/1, 3
Oct. 2001 ? MODELS 78 Test Cases DCNEW-28
Oct. 2001 ? $POCKET features (not $PARAMETER) DCNEW–26/4
Oct. 2001 ? IF-THEN…..in $PARAMETER DCNEW–25/10
Oct. 2001 ? Type – 68 (Meredith) illustrated DCNEW–25/1 Transformer with
saturation
Oct. 2001 ? Pocket Calculator loop mode simulation DCNEW–25/5
Oct. 2001 ? Pocket Calculator accepts only FORTRAN
Oct. 2001 ? TACS variable names take precedence DC–18/2
July 1997 ?? Monte Carlo simulation SHOTS:; PART : DC-40 ??
July 1991 1–C SPY plot commands
July 1998 1-E-1 TSTALL replaces PICPUN in STARTUP
Apr. 1991 1-E-1 KTRPL4 in STARTUP (if negative) DC-3
Apr. 1991 1-A-33 START AGAIN use with C-like files DC-40
Jan. 1990 1–C Comments on SPY usage

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July. 1990 1–C SPY command INCLSPY4.DAT
April 2001 1–D COMMENT, ENDCOMMENT DC – 68 / 4
July 1996 1-E-1 MOUSET in STARTUP to use mouse
July 1996 1-E-1 IDELAY in STARTUP DC – 68/2 correction
July 2001 1-E-1 NEWPL4 = 2 in STATUP
April 1993 1-E-1 NODPCX in STARTUP file
Oct. 1993 1-E-1 LISTSZ in STARTUP and LISTSIZE.DAT
Jan. 1994 1-E-1 LU6VRT in STARTUP delays writing to disk
Jan. 1994 1-E-1 KPMENT and KOMPAR in STARTUP discard Comment cards
and case summary
statistics
July 1994 1-E-1 NOPOST of STARTUP PostScript output
Oct. 1994 1-E-1 MOUSET lag in STARTUP
Oct. 1994 1-E-1 NOTPPL in STARTUP executes TPPLOT
from Salford EMTP
Oct. 1994 1-E-1 NOCALC in STARTUP to see vector
graphics on screen
Jan. 1995 1-E-1 HELP at start of execution NOHELP in
STARTUP
Jan. 1995 1-E-1 STARTUP free format
Jan. 1995 1-E-1 NOCOMM in SATRTUP kills comment cards DC–13; DC–14
DC–29; DC-36
Jan. 1995 1-E-1 NORUN in STARTUP
Apr. 1995 1-E-1 NEWPL4 of STARTUP compresses header
in PL4 files
April 1996 1-E-1 NEWPL4 in STARTUP removes unused
names in PL4 file
July 1996 1-E-1 Use of NORUN=1 in SARTUP
Oct. 1996 1-E-1 NOCOMM in STARTUP correction?
Jan. 1997 1-E-1 GNUPLOT universal plotting, NOGNU in
STARTUP
Oct. 1998 1-E-1 FNDFIL in STARTUP file name prefix
separator
April 1999 1-E-1 KTRPL$ (STARUP) naming PL4 files
April 1999 1-E-1 START46 special STARTUP for DC – 46 ??
Oct. 1999 1-E-1 KTRPL4 disk file location corrections
July 2000 1-E-1 NOCALC to suppress batch mode graphics
July 2000 1-E-1 NOSM59 in STARTUP DC – 26 / 1
Jan. 2001 1-E-1 STARTUP using ATPDIR DC – 37 / 3
April 2001 1-E-1 NAMES ARE LEFT ADJUSTED Also LEFTA^ in
NAMES ARE RIGHT ADJUSTED STARTUP
Oct. 2001 1-E-1 Use of NOSORT DC–36 / 6
Jan. 1996 1-E-1 INTINF in STARTUP
Oct. 1993 1–E–1 ? NEW LIST SIZES DC–2; DC-47
April 1993 1–E–1, 2 Comments on STARTUP and GRAPHICS
files
Oct. 1998 1–E–1,2 Updated STARTUP and GRAPHICS pages
April 1993 1–E–2 KOLBAK of disk file GRAPHICS
Oct. 1996 1–E–2 GRAPHICS file changes
July 1998 1–E–2 LOWERC in GRAPHICS
April 1993 1–E–2 QUATERPLOT – half size screen plot
April 1998 1–E–I PCSTYP in STARTUP
Oct. 1998 1–E–1 STARTUP.FRE free format STARTUP
file
Oct. 1996 1–G–1 NCOMP – list size 24 No. of phases of
compensation
Jan. 1992 1–J CHANGE PLOT FREQUENCY DC – 3
Jan. 1992 1–J /INITIAL; /LOADFLOW DC – 33

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Jan. 1995 1–J BGIN NEW DATA CASE DC – 33 Rule Book correction
Apr. 1995 1–J C-like PL4 file with Monte Carlo sim’n DC – 48
Jan. 1999 1–J NEWSORT, OLDSORT record data sorting DCNEW – 35 /
compatible with ATPDraw 4
Jan. 1993 1 – J, IX /INITIA Land ?LOADFOW corrected DC – 33
April 1992 1 – J; IX Loadflow output – NPRINT DC – 26
July 1994 1 – K C End of $INCLUDE DC -58
Jan. 1995 1 – K $INCLUDE second line DC – 8
April 1996 1 – K $INCLUDE – KARG, KBEG, KEND, KTEXT
April 1998 1 – K $INSERT DC – 4 / 2
July 1998 1 – K $INCLUDE long file names DC – 8
July 1999 1 – K WATCOM $INCLUDE problem Dc – 17
July 2001 1 – K Mathematics within $INCLUDE DC – 36 / 3
Oct. 2001 1 – K CONCATINATE INCLUDE files DCNEW – 28
Oct. 1998 1 – K $DUMMY – serialize dummy nodes in DC – 64
$INCLUDE files
Apr. 2000 1 – K $INSERT with TO SUPPORTING DCNEW – 25 /
PROGRAM 7
April 1997 1–L $PARAMETER
July 1999 1–L Concurrent plotting with PLOTXY and See also April 1999
GTPPLOT
Apr. 2000 1–L HFS plotting with HFSPLOT and HFSPLOT discontinued
GTPPLOT in 2002
Oct. 1998 1–L Pocket Calculator – $PARAMETER DCNEW – 19
Type 10 source DCNEW – 10
April 1998 1–L–2 NOBARS in TPPLOT, TPPLOT
improvements
April 1998 1–L–2 widexx use with FS and HFS use with TPPLOT and
HFSPLOT
April 1999 1–L–1 MODELS variables for FREQUENCY SCAN
displayed n TPPLOT
Jan. 1991 1–L–2 TPPLOT improvements various TPPLOT
commands
July 1991 1–L–2 TPPLOT improvements and commands
Oct. 1991 1–L–2 TPPLOT improvements
Jan. 1994 1–L–2 Misc. TPPLOT improvements
Apr. 1994 1–L–2 Misc. TPPLOT improvements
July 1994 1–L–2 Misc. TPPLOT improvements
Apr. 1995 1–L–2 JOIN two PL4 files in TPPLOT
July 1995 1–L–2 MATLAB control for RELAY in TPPLOT
Oct. 1995 1–L–2 COMTRADE in TPPLOT
Jan. 1996 1–L–2 TPPLOT improvements
April 1996 1–L–2 MATH command in TPPLOT
April 1996 1–L–2 MATH command for PL4 files See TPPLOT.zip
July 1996 1–L–2 PARAMETER JULES – BEGIN PL$ COMMENT
Oct. 1996 1–L–2 SHAFT command shaft loss of life ??
Oct. 1996 1–L–2 SHAFT command in TPPLOT
April 1997 1–L–2 TPDIR for TPPLOT
July 1997 1–L–2 TPPLOT improvements
July 1998 1–L–2 TPPLOT improvements Multiple windows
Jan. 1999 1–L–2 AUTOSCALE TPPLOT no mouse use?
Jan. 2001 1–L–2 Plotting of COMTRADE PL4 files with
TPPLOT
July 1992 1–L–2 Misc. TPPLOT improvements
Jan. 1998 1–L–2 ? widexx for PL4 files
April 1997 1–L–2 ? LOW command MATH6.dat MATH6.dat
April 1999 1–L–1 NPOWER, MODHFS, IHSPL$ added to C-
like PL4 files at end

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Jan. 1992 1–L–2 Misc. improvements to TPPLOT
Jan. 1993 1–L–2 TPPLOT improvements, COMTRADE SET
DATA, TPPARAM etc.
April 1993 1–L–2 KVIRTU virtual screen plot in TPPLOT
April 1993 1–L–2 KOLORS in TPPLOT
July 1993 1–L–2 TPPLOT Improvements
Oct. 1998 1–M POCKET CALCULATOR VARIES DCNEW – 25
PARAMETERS (PCVP)
Jan. 1999 1–M Intermediate variables in PCVP usage DCNEW–25/5
April 1999 1–M Small corrections to PCVP/$PARAMETER DC – 59 / 11
April 1999 1–M HOI-L 1999 Rule Book pages for PCVP
Apr. 2000 1–M POCKET CALCULATOR correction and use DCNEW–25/7
MAXKNT
Jan. 1999 1–M PCVP usage in statistical studies etc. DC–24, DC–40
(new)
July. 1990 1–L–2 DIR command in TPPLOT DC-3.
Oct. 1994 1–L–2 Misc. TPPLOT improvements
April 1992 1–L–2 DICE; @TWO.WIN;@THREE.WIN for and other TPPLOT
TPPLOT – new commands commands
July 1998 2–A LINE MODEL FREQUENCY SCAN DC – 52
Oct. 1993 2–A $BLANK DATA; $BLANK HALT; $BLANK
COMMENT; NOBLANK
July 1995 2–A DATA BASE MODULE and LMARGE
Oct. 1996 2–A ATP loadflow FIX SOURCE solution problems
July 1997 2–A DATA BASE MODULE DC – 36
Oct. 1993 2–A–33 START AGAIN with TACS
April 1992 2–A–16 LINE MODEL FREQUENCY SCAN LMFS) DC – 61
Oct. 1992 2–A–13 NETWORK EQUIVALENT DC-14
April 1993 2–A–16 FAULTS TO GROUND special request DC – 11
July 1993 2–A–16 LINE MODEL FREQUENCY SCAN DC – 51
Oct. 1994 2–A–16 Saturation in Frequency Scan using ?
MODELS
July 1995 2–A–16 FAULTS TO GROUND with $UNITS corr’d
July 1997 2–A–16 FREQUNCY SCAN scaling of angles DCNEW – 21
July 1992 2–A–33 START AGAIN DC–32, DC–49
Jan. 1994 2–A–33 START AGAIN with STATISTICS and DC–32;DC–49
SYSTEMATIC
Apr. 1994 2–A–33 $OPEN not required with MENSAV
April 1998 2–A–39 HARMONIC FREQUENCY SCAN (HFS) DCNEW – 21 see June 2002
modification of Rule
Book Section II-A-39
April 1998 2–A–39 CIGRE load models in HFS DCNEW- – 21
April 1998 2–A–39 NEXT FREQUENCY FOR SERIES R-L-C DCNEW- – 21 frequency dependent R-
L-C
Jan. 1999 2–A–39 MODELS with FREQUENCY SCAN DC – 52 bug removed
April 2001 2–A–39 MODELS processes HARMONIC DCNEW–26/1,3
FREQUENCY SCAN DC – 52 / 3
Oct. 1993 2–A–16 FAULTS TO GROUND DC – 11
Oct. 1998 2 – A 33 START AGAIN problem DC – 32. 49 small error lder programs
only
Oct. 1999 2–A, I–M TO FREQUENCY SCAN + PCVP DC – 41 Network frequency
dependence
Oct. 1998 2 – B DELTAT in timesteps per cycle DC – 22 / 4
Jan. 1993 2–A–1 6 FSCAN.zip illustrates LINE MODEL
FREQUENCY SCAN
Oct. 1998 2–A–33 START AGAIN problem DC – 32. 49 small error lder
programs only
Oct. 1999 2–A, I–M TO FREQUENCY SCAN + PCVP DC – 41 Network frequency
dependence

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Jan. 1993 2–A–1 6 FSCAN.zip illustrates LINE MODEL
FREQUENCY SCAN
Oct. 1998 2 – B DELTAT in timesteps per cycle DC – 22 / 4
July 1991 3 OLD TO NEW TACS DC-67 conversion of old TACS
data
Jan. 1992 3 TACS and MODELS SVC model DC – 22
Oct. 1994 3 Speed of MODELS vs. TACS
Jan. 1995 3 TACS HYBRID DC – 48
Oct. 1995 3 TACS devices, signal sources in MODELS MODELS User Guide
April 1996 3 TACS type codes 88, 98 and 99
Oct. 1996 3 IF – THEN – ELSE in TACS
Oct. 1996 3 MODELS vs. TACS speed discussions DC – 22 /4 example
Jan. 1997 3 Compiles TACS, LUNTEX in STARTP
COMTAC.LIB
Jan. 1997 3 MODELS vs. TACS comments
Jan. 1997 3 COMPILED TACS MAKE create FORTRAN code
for TACS
April 1997 3 COMPILED TACS DC – 2
July 1997 3 COMPTACS COMPILRD TACS MAKE OR
USE
Oct. 1997 3 COMPILED TACS DC–22A;DC-18
Jan. 1998 3 SINGL STEP IF MAKE re. COMPILED TACS
Jan. 1998 3 TACS ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE ?
April 1998 3 Type – 68 TACS device see also January 1996
April 1998 3 COMPILED TACS cont. from January 1998
April 1998 3 TACS ASSEMBLY LANGUAGRE request lower level code
for supplemental
variables
July 1998 3 Type – 68 TACS device improvement DCNEW – 25
July 1998 3 COMPILED TACS continued DC – 19A
Oct. 1998 3 Relational operators .EQ. .GE. added to DC-22D ?
TACS
Jan. 1999 3 COMPILED TACS MAKE DCNEW–25/6
April 1999 3 ABSOLUTE TACS DIMENSIONS DC – 18
July 2000 3 disk file COMTAC for COMPILED TACS
Oct. 2000 3 RELATIVE TACS DIMENSIONS no longer
honored
Oct. 2000 3 TACS X**Y with negative X and Y
July 2001 3 TACS and MODELS in the same data DC – 30 / 4
July 2001 3 TACS supplemental variables evaluated by
PCVP
July 2001 3 TACS pocket calculator
Oct. 2001 3 Type – 53 TACS larger List size DC – 37 / 2
Oct. 2001 3 IF blocks in TACS DC – 18 / 5
Jan. 1999 3 ? Type – 68 hysterics device by Meredith DCNEW–21/15
Jan. 1993 3–F MODELS comment structure changed DC – 68 ?
July 1995 3–A TACS STAND ALONE removed MODELS
STAND ALONE and MODELS HYBRID
added
Oct. 1998 3–E More on IF-THEN-ENDIF DCNEW-25
Jan. 1992 3–F Conversion from TACS to MODELS DC – 47
April 1992 3–F MODELS error messages DC – 68
Oct. 1992 3–F MODELS – KILL code DC – 68
Apr. 1994 3–F PBA (Rogers) Arc models Rogers.zip, on Fargo
server
Oct. 1994 3–F MODELS List 28 overflows list size increased
Apr. 1995 3–F MODELS with Monte Carlo studies DC – 48
July 1995 3–F Use of foreign MODELS functions

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July 1995 3–F Combine in MODELS
Oct. 1995 3–F POSTPROCESS PLOT FILE in MODELS
Jan. 1996 3–F MODELS Type 94 components see MODELS User
Guide
April 1996 3–F MODELS access to ATP variables see MODELS User
Guide and MODELS
Language Manual
April 1996 3–F Change of ATP variables from MODELS see MODELS User
Guide
July 1996 3–F ATP’s Deposit() function in MODELS MODELS User Guide
Example Backflash.dat
Fargo ftp
April 1997 3–F MATHPLOT1, 2 3 with MODELS ?
July 1999 3–F MODELS use of foreign code MODELS User’s Guide
Oct. 1997 4 MODELZ0Z1Z2 extended to Type 51,52,, DCNEW – 23
April 1998 4 CASCADE LINE TRANSPOSITION, ?
REPETITION
April 1998 4 HIGH ORDER PI CIRCUIT
July 1998 4 Correction of old DC – 9 for CASCADED PI ?
July 1998 4 NODA simulation validated DCNEW – 14
Jan. 1999 4 HIGH ORDER PI CIRCITS large scale example
3736 branches
Jan. 1999 4 RENUMBER WITHOUT COUPLING DC – 5/5
April 1999 4 Branch output modifications with INDIST DC – 41 / 2,
DCNEW – 4
Jan 2000 4 Type – 13 TACS DC – 19
DO NOT OPEN UNTIL CURRENT ZERO
July 2000 4 Symmetrical comp. data for Type 51.52,53 DCNEW–23/10
Jan 2000 4 ? EXACT PHASOR EQUIVALENT DCNEW–25/7
July 1998 4 ? REPETITION, TRANPOSITION INCLUDE DC – 9, DC – 3
TRANSPOSITION IN LOOP
July 1997 4 – C Z0Z1Z2 Type – 91 MODEL DCNEW – 22 allows matrix asymmetry
April 1993 4 – E 3 wig. Transformer instability CHANGE DC – 67
TRANSFORMER
Apr. 1994 4 – E IDEAL TRANSFORMER DC – 25
4 – E Prof. Chen’s USE SEATTLE IEEE paper 96 SM 410-
TRANSFORMER 1 PWRD
April 1998 4 – E comments on ungrounded networks
Jan. 1999 4 – E PCVP / $PARAMETER works inside
Saturable Transformer code
Apr. 2000 4 – E CHANGE TRANSFORMER to type 51,52.. DC – 67
Apr. 2000 4 – E Type – 98 for saturable TRANSFORMER DCNEW – 21
July 1998 4 – E Illustration of Meredith’s multiphase DCNEW – 25
transformer
July 1999 4–F Damping for CASCADE.LINE DC – 3 / 22
July 2001 4–F List sizes affecting high order PI circuits
Oct. 1999 4 – F ? High order pi circuits for transformer EEUG NEWS 1999
simulation by Bernd Stein.
Jan. 1996 5 – D Hysteresis modeling, Type 96 by Meredith
July 2000 5 – D HYSTERESIS HEVIA supporting progr. DC – 13 / 7 Input Type – 98
July 2000 5 – D HYSTERESIS request DC – 13 / 4
July 2000 5 – D HEVIA HYSTER DC – 13 / 8 supporting program
request
Oct. 1997 5–E INPUT kV AND KA DC – 39 scaling of ZNO data
Jan. 1998 5–H FLUX request for Type – 93 hystreresis
April 1998 5–H Type – 93, TANH etc. see also Hevia’s paper
EEUG 1997
Jan. 1998 5–H SMOOTH SATURATION USING TANH DC – 13 By. O.Hevis
Jan. 1998 5–H SATURATE SATURAT1 for Type 93 programs by O. Hevia

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Jan. 1992 6 Switch identification in TACS an MODELS DC – 32
April 1996 6 GIFU switch to suppress oscillations DCNEW – 17
July 1996 6 Switch for circuit breaker modeling DCNEW – 16
Jan. 1997 6 Dependent switches DCNEW – 17 power electronic
simulations
Jan. 1998 6 MASTER/SLAVE SITCH DEPANDENCY DCNEW – 17 GIFU switches
July 1994 6–A STATISTICS non-linear elements DC – 7 program correction
Oct. 1995 7 TACS devices, signal sources in MODELS MODELS User Guide
July 1996 7 Modified Heidler-Bernd and Bernd-Stein DC – 19
surge functions
April 1997 7 Type –10 source CDNEW – 19
Oct. 1997 7 Type – 20 source operational amplifier DCNEW – 22
Oct. 1997 7 VOLTAGE SOURCES IN KV DC – 37
Oct. 1998 7 OBSERVE PARALLEL MONTE CARLO DC – 66
Jan. 1999 7 Type – 10 source DCNEW–19/2 Also DC – 22 / 1
April 1999 7 Type – 10 source by Hevia DC – 22 / 1
April 1999 7 Superposition of Type – 10 sources DC – 22A
Jan. 2001 7 STANDLER SURGE FUNCTION and DC – 13 / 9
STANDLER.FOR by Hevia DC – 9 / 3
April 1996 7 ? Type – 26 source DC – 19 Change value of ATP
variable
Jan. 1993 8 SM 59 saturation modeling corrected DC – 53;
DCNEW – 11
July 1995 8 Voltage scaling in SM59 simulation DC – 53
Oct. 1996 8 Phase domain S.M. model by TEPCO
(S.M. 58)
April 1997 8 S.M. 58 synch. machine by Tokyo Electric
July 1997 8 SM 58/59 modeling at non power frequency tests by Furst and
rotor speeds Ceresoli of CESI
July 1998 8 SM 58/59 saturation issues
Jan. 1999 8 SM 59 with TACS DC – 47 bug removed
April 1999 8 S.M.59 synch machine by TEPCO DC–25,26,47
DCNEW–11,20
July 1999 8 TEPCO’s S.M. 58 model improvements
July 1999 8 CAO LOADLOW request for modeling with DC – 26c
TEPCO’s S.M. 58
Oct. 1993 8-2-A-46 UM TO TACS DCNEW – 10
Oct. 1990 9 U.M. #1 corrected by LEC by Yin Yuexin DCNEW-2 and Minor error not
DCNEW-9 significant
April 1996 9 UM compensation corrected DCNEW – 9,
10, and 16
July 1997 9 Type – 4 U.M. initialization DCNEW – 12
April 1999 9 ABSOLUTE U.M. DIMENSIONS DCNEW – 1
April 1999 9 INDUCTION MOTOR DATA DC – 15 / 2
Jan. 2001 9 TACS control of U.M. rotor resistance TACS DCNEW–16/6,7
–R-thev
Jan. 2001 9 INDUCTION MOTOR DATA, program DC – 15
INDUCT
April 2001 9 Servo motor U.M. modeling DCNEW – 9 / 3
July 2001 9 6 –phase U.M. machine by Steurer
Oct. 2001 9 Compensation in data with U.M. DCNEW–16/10
Jan. 1998 9–C BCTRAN DCNEW – 8 error correction
April 1996 9–E U.M. SHARE DCNEW – 18 Machines on same shaft
Oct. 1999 9–F DATA BASE MODULE argument limits
Jan 2000 9–F DATA BASE MODULE list sizes increase
April 1999 10 NEW LOADFLOW, loadflow model by DCNEW – 20
TEPCO
July 1999 10 FIX SOURCE non convergence DC – 26 / 2

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April 1999 10 ? Superposition of phasor solutions DCNEW – 26
July 1998 12 NEW FS and HFS variable output options DCNEW – 21
April 1999 12 HEXADECIMAL COLUMN 80 DC – 37 / 6 output combimations
Apr. 1995 12 ? Branch voltage output with “-5”
July 1996 16 DATA command in SPY
July 1999 16 ROLL – ing SPY PLOT DC – 57
Jan 2000 16 GNU Mingw32 SPY PLOT
July 1992 17 JMART SETUP and GMODE DCNEW–3,5, 6
July 1992 21 LINE CONSTANTS PCH output DC – 59 error corrected
Oct. 1992 21 METRIC option with LINE CONSTANTS DCNEW – 5 correct error
Oct. 1993 21 LINE CONSTANTS with SPECIAL DC – 59
DOUBLE CIRCUIT
Jan. 1994 21 LINE CONSTANTS modal propagation table DC – 59
Oct. 1997 21 LINE CONSTANTS metric use correction
April 1998 21 METRIC declaration in LINE CONSTANTS DC – 59 program correction
Jan. 1999 21 PCVP two dimensional parameters in LINE DC – 59
CONTANTS
July 1999 21 METRIC use in LINE CONSTANTS DC – 59
Oct. 1999 21 METRIC WITH X AT 1 FOOT SPACING DC – 59 re . LINE CONSTANTS
July 2000 21 BRANCH declaration for PCH cards
July 1999 22 Semlyen type initialization DCNEW – 27
April 2001 22 NO IMAGINARY PART with Semlyen DC–62,
DC–61/2
July 2001 22 SEMLYEN SETUP can be used with DC – 41,
CABLE PARAMETERS DCNEW – 6
Jan. 1990 23 CABLE CONSTANTS enables constant
parameters and distributed lines
Apr. 1994 23 CABLE CONSTANTS with JMARTI DCNEW – 6
July 1994 23 CABLE PARAMETERS DC–27;DC–28
DCNEW – 6
Oct. 1994 23 Use of CABLE PARAMETERS
improvements
July 1995 23 CABLE CONSTANTS – JMARTI DCNEW – 6
Oct. 1995 23 $UNITS use with CABLE PARAMETERS DC – 28
July 1997 23 CABLE PARAMETETRS variable DC – 27, 28, 52
dimensioning DCNEW – 6
Oct. 1997 23 CABLE PARAMETERS DC – 27 correction of data
Jan. 1998 23 Counterpoise (CC) representation in CABLE Prof. Ametani’s
PARAMETER comments
April 1998 23 NGRND in CABLE PARAMETERS DC – 27 program correction
Oct. 1999 23 Stratified earth model CABLE CONSTANTS
July 2000 23 Shunt conductance for CABLE DCNEW – 29
PARAMETERS
Oct. 2000 23 CABLE PARAMETER output improvements
Oct. 2001 23 DIR DB* display CABLE CONSTANT data
graphically
July 2000 23 ? Corrections to CYMTRX DCNEW – 29

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 Can / Am
EMTP News
Brief Listing of ATP Rule Book Related Items

1990 to 2001

Sorted chronologically from Newsletters

The ATP Rule Book has only been updated over the last 10 years by
revising a few chapters such as LINE CONSTANTS, Nonlinear Elements,
TACS, BCTRAN, STARTUP file etc. A large number of announcements of
ATP program revisions, additions, modifications, corrections and
improvements have been announced in the quarterly edition of the
Can/Am EMTP News. For both new and long standing ATP users it has
become very difficult to keep abreast of the new features of ATP. At
present program developers in Portland, OR, USA are working on a
revision of the Rule Book, but it will be a while before it becomes available
to users. In the interim, as a help to scan the EMTP News, an extract of
the Rule Book related items was prepared covering the period 1990 to
2001. One version was sorted chronologically, the other according to Rule
Book chapters. The tabulations show the subject matter, the EMTP News
issue, and the BENCHMARK data file where such is available.

Prepared by

Gabor Furst (Canada)

 Date RB Description BENCHMARK Comment
Section File
Jan. 1990 ? PCPLOT reads FOMATTED and
UNFORMATTED
Jan. 1990 1 – C Comments on SPY usage
Jan. 1990 23 CABLE CONSTANTS enables constant
parameters and distributed lines

July. 1990 1–L–2 DIR command in TPPLOT DC-3.

July. 1990 1–C SPY command INCLSPY4.DAT
Oct. 1990 9 U.M. #1 corrected by LEC by Yin Yuexin DCNEW-2 and Minor error not
DCNEW-9 significant

Jan. 1991 1–L–2 TPPLOT improvements various TPPLOT

commands

Apr. 1991 1–E–1 KTRPL4 in STARTUP (if negative) DC-3

Apr. 1991 The BOTH option for starting ATP
Apr. 1991 1–A–33 START AGAIN use with C-like files DC-40

July 1991 1 –C SPY plot commands

July 1991 1–L–2 TPPLOT improvements and commands
July 1991 3 OLD TO NEW TACS DC-67 conversion of old TACS
data

Oct. 1991 1–L–2 TPPLOT improvements

Jan. 1992 1–L–2 Misc. improvements to TPPLOT
Jan. 1992 3 TACS and MODELS SVC model DC–22
Jan. 1992 6 Switch identification in TACS an MODELS DC–32
Jan. 1992 1–J CHANGE PLOT FREQUENCY DC–3
Jan. 1992 3–F Conversion from TACS to MODELS DC–47
Jan. 1992 ? LINE MODEL FREQUENCY SCAN EMTP News Sept. 1991
Jan. 1992 1–J /INITIAL; /LOADFLOW DC–33

April 1992 1 –L–2 DICE; @TWO.WIN;@THREE.WIN for

TPPLOT–new commands and other
TPPLOT commands
April 1992 Multiphase transformer model by Prof.Chen ?
April 1992 3–F MODELS error messages DC–68
April 1992 2–A –16 LINE MODEL FREQUENCY SCAN LMFS) DC–61
April 1992 1–J; IX Loadflow output–NPRINT DC–26

July 1992 1–L–2 Misc. TPPLOT improvements

July 1992 2–A–33 START AGAIN DC–32 and
DC–49
July 1992 17 JMART SETUP and GMODE DCNEW–3, 5
and 6
July 1992 ? Lower case for “c” for comments DC–3
July 1992 21 LINE CONSTANTS PCH output DC–59 error corrected

Oct. 1992 ? /PARAMS–ATP execution DC–68 ?

Oct. 1992 ? WP5LOOK read Word Perfect files
Oct. 1992 3–F MODELS –KILL code DC–68
Oct. 1992 ? FIND with Monte Carlo simulation DC–24
Oct. 1992 2–A–13 NETWORK EQUIVALENT DC-14
Oct. 1992 21 METRIC option with LINE CONSTANTS DCNEW–5 correct error

Jan. 1993 1–L–2 TPPLOT improvements, COMTRADE SET

DATA, TPPARAM etc.

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Jan. 1993 ? Phase XFORMER modeling by Prof. Chen not clear what
happened to this
Jan. 1993 3–F MODELS comment structure changed DC–68 ?
Jan. 1993 8 SM 59 saturation modeling corrected DC–53;
DCNEW–11
Jan. 1993 1–J, IX /INITIA Land ?LOADFOW corrected DC–33
Jan. 1993 2 –A –1 FSCAN.zip illustrates LINE MODEL
6 FREQUENCY SCAN

April 1993 1–E–2 KOLBAK of disk file GRAPHICS

April 1993 1–E–1 NODPCX in STARTUP file
April 1993 KNTPLT serializes batch plots
April 1993 1–E–1, 2 Comments on STARTUP and GRAPHICS
files
April 1993 1–E–2 QUATERPLOT–half size screen plot
April 1993 1–L–2 KVIRTU virtual screen plot in TPPLOT
April 1993 1–L–2 KOLORS in TPPLOT
April 1993 ? Three phase trans. modeling by Prof. Chen DC-31
Multiphase transformer simulation
April 1993 ? CHENSPR utility 6ph pi cct. to represent
transformers
April 1993 2–A–16 FAULTS TO GROUND special request DC–11
April 1993 ? Kizilcay’s Frequency Dependence DC–23
April 1993 4–E 3 wig. Transformer instability CHANGE DC–67
TRANSFORMER

July 1993 1–L–2 TPPLOT Improvements

July 1993 2–A–16 LINE MODEL FREQUENCY SCAN DC–51

Oct. 1993 NEW LIST SIZES dynamic dimensioning DC–22; DC–27

Oct. 1993 8; 2-A-46 UM TO TACS DCNEW–10
Oct. 1993 21 LINE CONSTANTS with SPECIAL DOUBLE DC–59
CIRCUIT
Oct. 1993 2–A $BLANK DATA; $BLANK HALT; $BLANK
COMMENT; NOBLANK
Oct. 1993 1–E–1 LISTSZ in STARTUP and LISTSIZE.DAT
Oct. 1993 1–E–1 ? NEW LIST SIZES DC–2; DC–47
Oct. 1993 2–A –33 START AGAIN with TACS
Oct. 1993 2–A–16 FAULTS TO GROUND DC–11

Jan. 1994 1–L–2 Misc. TPPLOT improvements

Jan. 1994 1–E–1 LU6VRT in STARTUP delays writing to disk
Jan. 1994 21 LINE CONSTANTS modal propagation table DC–59
Jan. 1994 2–A–33 START AGAIN with STATISTICS and DC–32; DC–49
SYSTEMATIC
Jan. 1994 1–E–1 KPMENT and KOMPAR in STARTUP discard Comment cards
and case summary
statistics

Apr. 1994 1–L–2 Misc. TPPLOT improvements

Apr. 1994 MATLAB data files comments
Apr. 1994 3–F PBA (Rogers) Arc models Rogers.zip, on Fargo
server
Apr. 1994 4–E IDEAL TRANSFORMER DC–25
Apr. 1994 2–A–33 $OPEN not required with MENSAV
Apr. 1994 23 CABLE CONSTANTS with JMARTI DCNEW–6
Apr. 1994 PL4TOMAT MATLAB conversion by Pisa Fargo server

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July 1994 SET CTRLBK=NOTRAP in Autoexec.bat Interrupt execution
July 1994 1–E–1 NOPOST of STARTUP PostScript output
July 1994 1–L–2 Misc. TPPLOT improvements
July 1994 23 CABLE PARAMETERS DC–27; DC–28
DCNEW–6
July 1994 6–A STATISTICS non-linear elements DC–7 program correction
July 1994 1–K C End of $INCLUDE DC–58

Oct. 1994 1–E–1 MOUSET lag in STARTUP

Oct. 1994 3–F MODELS List 28 overflows list size increased
Oct. 1994 1–E–1 NOTPPL in STARTUP executes TPPLOT
from Salford EMTP
Oct. 1994 1–E–1 NOCALC in STARTUP to see vector
graphics on screen
Oct. 1994 I–L–2 Misc. TPPLOT improvements
Oct. 1994 ? Kizilcay’s Frequency dependent equivalent IIEEE, PES paper, Vol.
3 No.2
Oct. 1994 2–A–16 Saturation in Frequency Scan using ?
MODELS
Oct. 1994 3 Speed of MODELS vs. TACS
Oct. 1994 Phase domain modeling of frequency Also SSONLY in
dependent lines by Arma model STARTUP
Oct. 1994 Mouse input used in SPY XVI–C
Oct. 1994 23 Use of CABLE PARAMETERS
improvements

Jan. 1995 1–E–1 HELP at start of execution NOHELP in

STARTUP
Jan. 1995 ? POSTPROCESS PLOT FILE DC–46
Jan. 1995 ? NODA Frequency Dependence NODA DC–27; DC–59
SETUP sub. 8
Jan. 1995 1–E–1 STARTUP free format
Jan. 1995 1–E–1 NOCOMM in SATRTUP kills comment cards DC–13; DC–14
DC–29; DC–36
Jan. 1995 1–K $INCLUDE second line DC–8
Jan. 1995 1–E–1 NORUN in STARTUP
Jan. 1995 1–J BGIN NEW DATA CASE DC–33 Rule Book correction
Jan. 1995 3 TACS HYBRID DC–48

Apr. 1995 1–J C-like PL4 file with Monte Carlo sim’n DC–48
Apr. 1995 1–L–2 JOIN two PL4 files in TPPLOT
Apr. 1995 3–F MODELS with Monte Carlo studies DC–48
Apr. 1995 1–E–1 NEWPL4 of STARTUP compresses header
in PL4 files
Apr. 1995 ? Macintosh ATP by Stu Cook
Apr. 1995 ? TRUNCATE utility
Apr. 1995 12 ? Branch voltage output with “-5”

July 1995 ? STARTUP on the command line

July 1995 1–L–2 MATLAB control for RELAY in TPPLOT
July 1995 CUSTOM PLOT FILE change precision
July 1995 3–F Use of foreign MODELS functions
July 1995 3–F Combine in MODELS
July 1995 8 Voltage scaling in SM59 simulation DC–53
July 1995 23 CABLE CONSTANTS –JMARTI DCNEW–6
July 1995 3–A TACS STAND ALONE removed MODELS
STAND ALONE and MODELS HYBRID
added

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July 1995 2–A–16 FAULTS TO GROUND with $UNITS corr’d
July 1995 2 – A DATA BASE MODULE and LMARGE

Oct. 1995 ? $DEPOSIT DC–6

Oct. 1995 1–L–2 COMTRADE in TPPLOT
Oct. 1995 3–F POSTPROCESS PLOT FILE in MODELS
Oct. 1995 3 TACS devices, signal sources in MODELS MODELS User Guide
Oct. 1995 7 TACS devices, signal sources in MODELS MODELS User Guide
Oct. 1995 Discussions on Trapezoidal Rule and Oscillations
Oct. 1995 23 $UNITS use with CABLE PARAMETERS DC–28
Oct. 1995 Noda Frequency Dependence–ARMAFIT DC–31, 41
DCNEW–4, 13
Oct. 1995 USE SEATTLE XFORMER DC–31

Jan. 1996 1–E–1 INTINF in STARTUP

Jan. 1996 1–L–2 TPPLOT improvements
Jan. 1996 ZNO surge arrester modeling paper reference
Jan. 1996 C.I.G.R.E. HVDC test case by Dykas at ORNL
Jan. 1996 3–F MODELS Type 94 components see MODELS User
Guide
Jan. 1996 Numerical oscillations, trapezoidal rule
continued
Jan. 1996 5–D Hysteresis modeling, Type 96 by Meredith

April 1996 1–E–1 NEWPL4 in STARTUP removes unused

names in PL4 file
April 1996 ATPDIR allows remote storage of disk files
April 1996 1–L–2 MATH command in TPPLOT
April 1996 3–F MODELS access to ATP variables see MODELS User
Guide and MODELS
Language Manual
April 1996 PL42MAT converts ATP to Matlab University of Pisa
April 1996 7 ? Type–26 source DC–19 Change value of ATP
variable
April 1996 3–F Change of ATP variables from MODELS see MODELS User
Guide
April 1996 6 GIFU switch to suppress oscillations DCNEW–17
April 1996 9 UM compensation corrected DCNEW–9, 10,
and 16
April 1996 1–L–2 MATH command for PL4 files See TPPLOT.zip
April 1996 3 TACS type codes 88, 98 and 99
April 1996 1–K $INCLUDE–KARG, KBEG, KEND, KTEXT
April 1996 9–E U.M. SHARE DCNEW–18 Machines on same
shaft

July 1996 16 DATA command in SPY

July 1996 NOTMAX with SPY prevents simulation end
when TMAX reached
July 1996 1–E –1 MOUSET in STARTUP to use mouse
July 1996 1–E –1 IDELAY in STARTUP DC–68/2 correction
July 1996 1–L–2 PARAMETER JULES–BEGIN PL$
COMMENT
July 1996 3–F ATP’s Deposit() function in MODELS MODELS User Guide
Example Backflash.dat
Fargo ftp
July 1996 Modeling synchronous = voltage source 96 SM 465-5 PWRD;
converters IEEE paper
July 1996 ATP on Apple Macintosh by Stu Cook

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July 1996 7 Modified Heidler-Bernd and Bernd-Stein DC–19
surge functions
July 1996 6 Switch for circuit breaker modeling DCNEW–16
4–E Prof. Chen’s USE SEATTLE IEEE paper 96 SM
TRANSFORMER 410-1 PWRD
July 1996 1–E–1 Use of NORUN=1 in SARTUP

Oct. 1996 1–E–2 GRAPHICS file changes

Oct. 1996 1–L–2 SHAFT command shaft loss of life ??
Oct. 1996 3 IF–THEN–ELSE in TACS
Oct. 1996 3 MODELS vs. TACS speed discussions DC–22 /4 example
Oct. 1996 8 Phase domain S.M. model by TEPCO (S.M.
58)
Oct. 1996 1–L–2 SHAFT command in TPPLOT
Oct. 1996 2–A ATP loadflow FIX SOURCE solution problems
Oct. 1996 1–E–1 NOCOMM in STARTUP correction?
Oct. 1996 1–G–1 NCOMP – list size 24 No. of phases of
compensation

Jan. 1997 3 Compiles TACS, LUNTEX in STARTP

COMTAC.LIB
Jan. 1997 ? NOGNU for GNUOPLOT ?
Jan. 1997 PCPLOT enhancements
Jan. 1997 Generator modeling using Z0, Z1, Z2 comments only
Jan. 1997 3 MODELS vs. TACS comments
Jan. 1997 6 Dependent switches DCNEW–17 power electronic
simulations
Jan. 1997 GNU under LINUX
Jan. 1997 1–E–1 GNUPLOT universal plotting, NOGNU in
STARTUP
Jan. 1997 3 COMPILED TACS MAKE create FORTRAN code
for TACS
Jan. 1997 POSPROCESS PLOT FILE with TACS DC–48
HYBRID

April 1997 1–L–2 TPDIR for TPPLOT

April 1997 1–L–2 ? LOW command MATH6.dat MATH6.dat
April 1997 ? LISTZIZE.BIG large list dimensions
April 1997 ? FINDFIL and $EOF ?
April 1997 3–F MATHPLOT1, 2 3 with MODELS ?
April 1997 7 Type –10 source CDNEW–19
April 1997 1–L $PARAMETER
April 1997 8 S.M. 58 synch. machine by Tokyo Electric
April 1997 GNU ATP under DOS
April 1997 GBUPLOT features
April 1997 3 COMPILED TACS DC–2
April 1997 INDUCTION MOTOR DATA see also Indmot.exe
secure servers

July 1997 ? LIMCRD Number of data

cards(records) allowed
July 1997 3 COMPTACS COMPILRD TACS MAKE OR
USE
July 1997 1–L–2 TPPLOT improvements
July 1997 ? OBSERVE PARALLEL MONTE CARLO ?
July 1997 ? MINIMUM TABLE SIZES LISTSIZE.DAT ?
July 1997 ?? Monte Carlo simulation SHOTS:; PART : DC–40 ??

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July 1997 23 CABLE PARAMETETRS variable DC–27, 28, 52
dimensioning DCNEW–6
July 1997 4–C Z0Z1Z2 Type –91 MODEL DCNEW–22 allows matrix
asymmetry
July 1997 8 SM 58/59 modeling at non power frequency tests by Furst and
rotor speeds Ceresoli of CESI
July 1997 2–A–16 FREQUNCY SCAN scaling of angles DCNEW–21
July 1997 2 – A DATA BASE MODULE DC–36
July 1997 9 Type–4 U.M. initialization DCNEW–12

Oct. 1997 7 Type–20 source operational amplifier DCNEW–22

Oct. 1997 23 CABLE PARAMETERS DC–27 correction of data
Oct. 1997 21 LINE ONSTANTS metric use correction
Oct. 1997 3 COMPILED TACS DC–22A; DC–
18
Oct. 1997 5–E INPUT KV AND KA DC–39 scaling of ZNO data
Oct. 1997 7 VOLTAGE SOURCES IN KV DC–37
Oct. 1997 4 MODELZ0Z1Z2 extended to Type 51,52,, DCNEW–23

Jan. 1998 5–H SATURATE SATURAT1 for Type 93 programs by O. Hevia

Jan. 1998 ? ARMAFIT ; NODA SETUP source of Instructions
ftp. etc.
Jan. 1998 5–H SMOOTH SATURATION USING TANH DC–13 By. O.Hevis
Jan. 1998 3 SINGL STEP IF MAKE re. COMPILED TACS
Jan. 1998 3 TACS ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE ?
Jan. 1998 23 Counterpoise (CC) representation in CABLE Prof. Ametani’s
PARAMETER comments
Jan. 1998 1–L–2 ? widexx for PL4 files
Jan. 1998 5 – H FLUX request for Type–93 hystreresis
Jan. 1998 9 – C BCTRAN DCNEW–8 error correction
Jan. 1998 6 MASTER/SLAVE SITCH DEPANDENCY DCNEW–17 GIFU switches

April 1998 1–L–2 NOBARS in TPPLOT, TPPLOT

improvements
April 1998 1–L–2 widexx use with FS and HFS use with TPPLOT and
HFSPLOT
April 1998 ? ARA<AFIT continued from Jan. 1998
April 1998 5–H Type –93, TANH etc. see also Hevia’s paper
EEUG 1997
April 1998 3 Type–68 TACS device see also January 1996
April 1998 21 METRIC declaration in LINE CONSTANTS DC–59 program correction
April 1998 23 NGRND in CABLE PARAMETERS DC–27 program correction
April 1998 4 CASCADE LINE TRANSPOSITION, ?
REPETITION
April 1998 4 HIGH ORDER PI CIRCUIT
April 1998 3 COMPILED TACS cont. from January 1998
April 1998 3 TACS ASSEMBLY LANGUAGRE request lower level
code for supplemental
variables
April 1998 2–A–39 HARMONIC FREQUENCY SCAN (HFS) DCNEW-–21 see June 2002
modification of Rule
Book Section II-A-39
April 1998 2–A–39 CIGRE load models in HFS DCNEW-–21
April 1998 2–A–39 NEXT FREQUENCY FOR SERIES R-L-C DCNEW-–21 frequency dependent
R-L-C
April 1998 ? ALLOW EVEB PLOT FREQUENCY one period in the PL4
file
April 1998 1–E–I PCSTYP in STARTUP

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April 1998 4–E comments on ungrounded networks
April 1998 1–K $INSERT DC–4 / 2

July 1998 1–K $INCLUDE long file names DC–8

July 1998 1–E–1 TSTALL replaces PICPUN in STARTUP
July 1998 4 Correction of old DC–9 for CASCADED PI ?
July 1998 1–L–2 TPPLOT improvements Multiple windows
July 1998 4–E Illustration of Meredith’s multiphase DCNEW–25
transformer
July 1998 3 Type–68 TACS device improvement DCNEW–25
July 1998 More on High Order PI Circuits DC–4 ?
July 1998 4 ? REPETITION, TRANPOSITION INCLUDE DC–9 DC–3
TRANSPOSITION IN LOOP
July 1998 12 NEW FS and HFS variable output options DCNEW–21
July 1998 2–A LINE MODEL FREQUENCY SCAN DC–52
July 1998 8 SM 58/59 saturation issues
July 1998 3 COMPILED TACS continued DC–19A
July 1998 1–E–2 LOWERC in GRAPHICS
July 1998 4 NODA simulation validated DCNEW–14
July 1998 IF–THEN–ENDIF in ATP input data
July 1998 GTTPLOT and PLOTXY announcements

Oct. 1998 7 OBSERVE PARALLEL MONTE CARLO DC–66

Oct. 1998 ? REPEATABLE RANDOM NUMBERS; DC–24 requests, see also
TRULY RANDOM NUMBERS Backflash.dat on ftp
Oct. 1998 1–E–1 FNDFIL in STARTUP file name prefix
separator
Oct. 1998 1–L Pocket Calculator –$PARAMETER Type 10 DCNEW–19
source DCNEW–10
Oct. 1998 ? LIZ30 limiting number of NODA circuits DCNEW–14
Oct. 1998 3 Relational operators .EQ. .GE. added to DC-22D ?
TACS
Oct. 1998 1 – M POCKET CALCULATOR VARIES DCNEW–25
PARAMETERS (PCVP)
Oct. 1998 1–E–1, 2 Updated STARTUP and GRAPHICS pages
Oct. 1998 3–E More on IF-THEN-ENDIF DCNEW-25
Oct. 1998 GTTPLOT update
Oct. 1998 1–E–1 STARTUP.FRE free format STARTUP
file
Oct. 1998 1–K $DUMMY–serialize dummy nodes in DC–64
$INCLUDE files
Oct. 1998 2–A 33 START AGAIN problem DC–32. 49 small error lder
programs only
Oct. 1998 2–B DELTAT in timesteps per cycle DC–22 / 4

Jan. 1999 ? LISRSIZE20K

Jan. 1999 1–L–2 AUTOSCALE TPPLOT no Mouse use
?
Jan. 1999 252 page EMTP book in Japanese in Japanese only
Jan. 1999 21 PCVP two dimensional parameters in LINE DC–59
CONTANTS
Jan. 1999 8 SM 59 with TACS; DC–47 bug removed
Jan. 1999 2–A–39 MODELS with FREQUENCY SCAN DC–52 bug removed
Jan. 1999 4 HIGH ORDER PI CIRCITS large scale example
3736 branches
Jan. 1999 4 RENUMBER WITHOUT COUPLING DC–5/5
Jan. 1999 1–M Intermediate variables in PCVP usage DCNEW–25 / 5

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Jan. 1999 7 Type–10 source DCNEW–19 / 2 Also DC–22 / 1
Jan. 1999 3 ? Type–68 hysterics device by Meredith DCNEW–21 /
15
Jan. 1999 3 COMPILED TACS MAKE DCNEW–25 / 6
Jan. 1999 Superposition of phasor solution DCNEW–26/ 6
Jan. 1999 SUPERIMPOSE DCNEW–26 / 9 also DC–51, DC–52
DCNEW–26 / 6
Jan. 1999 1–M PCVP usage in statistical studies etc. DC–24, DC–40
(new)
Jan. 1999 4–E PCVP / $PARAMETER works inside
Saturable Transformer code
Jan. 1999 1–J NEWSORT, OLDSORT record data sorting DCNEW–35 / 4
compatible with AtpDraw

April 1999 1–E–1 KTRPL$ (STARUP) naming PL4 files

April 1999 1–L–1 MODELS variables for FREQUENCY SCAN
displayed n TPPLOT
April 1999 1–L–1 NPOWER, MODHFS, IHSPL$ added to C-
like PL4 files at end
April 1999 1–E–1 START46 special STARTUP for DC–46 ??
April 1999 PLOTXY used as SPYPLOT
April 1999 $OPEN STATUS=APPEND for PLOTXY DC–49
April 1999 ESTIMATE ACTUAL TABLE SIZES instruct ATP to
dimension itself
April 1999 7 Type–10 source by Hevia DC–22 / 1
April 1999 7 Superposition of Type–10 sources DC–22A
April 1999 10 ? Superposition of phasor solutions DCNEW–26
April 1999 12 HEXADECIMAL COLUMN 80 DC–37 / 6 output combimations
April 1999 8 S.M.59 synch machine by TEPCO DC–25, 26, 47
DCNEW–11, 20
April 1999 10 NEW LOADFLOW, loadflow model by DCNEW–20
TEPCO
April 1999 1–M Small corrections to PCVP/$PARAMETER DC–59 / 11
April 1999 1–M HOI-L 1999 Rule Book pages for PCVP
April 1999 TO SUPPORTING PROGRAM DC–41 / 2, 3, 4 request to support in-
line execution of
program to produce
data
April 1999 DO loop in ATP DC–58
April 1999 4 Branch output modifications with INDIST DC–41 / 2
DCNEW–4
April 1999 3 ABSOLUTE TACS DIMENSIONS DC–18
April 1999 9 ABSOLUTE U.M. DIMENSIONS DCNEW–1
April 1999 GTPPLOT’s COMTRADE output
April 1999 9 INDUCTION MOTOR DATA DC–15 / 2
April 1999 Concurrent plotting with PLOTXY DC–49 see also July 99 issue

July 1999 1–K WATCOM $INCLUDE problem Dc–17

July 1999 ? .LIS file error termination WATCOM only ?
July 1999 3–F MODELS use of foreign code MODELS User’s Guide
July 1999 21 METRIC use in LINE CONSTANTS DC–59
July 1999 1–L Concurrent plotting with PLOTXY and See also April 1999
GTPPLOT
July 1999 ? Upper and lower case file names created by
ATP
July 1999 ? NEW OUTPUT FILE two or more output files
allowed
July 1999 ? Superimposed phasor solutions DCNEW–26/14

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July 1999 8 TEPCO’s S.M. 58 model improvements
July 1999 8 CAO LOADLOW request for modeling with DC–26c
TEPCO’s S.M. 58
July 1999 ? The DISLIN graphics program description, GTPPLOT
use
July 1999 16 ROLL–ing SPY PLOT DC–57
July 1999 22 Semlyen type initialization DCNEW–27
July 1999 4–F Damping for CASCADE.LINE DC–3 / 22
July 1999 10 FIX SOURCE non convergence DC–26 / 2

Oct. 1999 ? Positive LUNTEX–external program text

Oct. 1999 ? COMP6.BAT with WATCOM See also January issue
Oct. 1999 21 METRIC WITH X AT 1 FOOT SPACING DC–59 re . LINE CONSTANTS
Oct. 1999 23 Stratified earth model CABLE CONSTANTS
Oct. 1999 ? DC–41 / c installation dependent DC–41 / 3 illustrate TO
SUPPORTING
PRPGRAMS
Oct. 1999 ? RESISTOR as environmental variable DCNEW–25
Oct. 1999 4–F ? High order pi circuits for transformer EEUG- NEWS 1999
simulation by Bernd Stein.
Oct. 1999 2–A, I–M TO FREQUENCY SCAN + PCVP DC–41 Network frequency
dependence
Oct. 1999 ? DISLIN use by GNU
Oct. 1999 ? $LOAD NEW.AUX FILE DC–37
Oct. 1999 ? $SEND SCREEN PLOT DC–37
Oct. 1999 1–E–1 KTRPL4 disk file location corrections
Oct. 1999 ? CENTRAL STATISTICS FILE DC–66
Oct. 1999 9–F DATA BASE MODULE argument limits

Jan 2000 4 Type–13 TACS DO NOT OPEN UNTIL DC–19

CURRENT ZERO
Jan 2000 ? New Macintosh ATP by Cook
Jan 2000 16 GNU Mingw32 SPY PLOT
Jan 2000 4 ? EXACT PHASOR EQUIVALENT DCNEW–25 / 7
Jan 2000 ? GTPPLOT improvements
Jan 2000 9–F DATA BASE MODULE list sizes increase
Jan 2000 ? CENTRAL STATISTICS FILE DC–66

Apr. 2000 ? Comments on compiler and List sizes

Apr. 2000 4–E CHANGE TRANSFORMER to type 51,52.. DC–67
Apr. 2000 Java output by GTPPLOT/DISLIN
Apr. 2000 1–M POCKET CALCULATOR correction and use DCNEW–25 / 7
MAXKNT
Apr. 2000 1–K $INSERT with TO SUPPORTING DCNEW–25 / 7
PROGRAM
Apr. 2000 1–L HFS plotting with HFSPLOT and GTPPLOT HFSPLOT discontinued
in 2002
Apr. 2000 ? GTPPLOT commands
Apr. 2000 ? Improvements to NEW LIST SIZES DC–22 / 4 and 5
Apr. 2000 4–E Type–98 for saturable TRANSFORMER DCNEW–21

July 2000 ? Comments on NEW LIST SIZES DC–47

July 2000 ? Variable PI of MODELS precision
July 2000 3 disk file COMTAC for COMPILED TACS
July 2000 23 Shunt conductance for CABLE DCNEW–29
PARAMETERS
July 2000 21 BRANCH declaration for PCH cards

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July 2000 23 ? Corrections to CYMTRX DCNEW–29
July 2000 5–D HYSTERESIS HEVIA supporting progr. DC–13 / 7 Input Type–98
July 2000 5–D HYSTERESIS request DC–13 / 4
July 2000 5–D HEVIA HYSTER DC–13 / 8 supporting program
request
July 2000 ? More on trapezoidal rule oscillations DC–53 / 4
July 2000 ? MATLAB integrated with TACS/MODLS by Harald Wehrend
July 2000 Use of PCVP with STATISTICS or DC–59 / 11
SYSTEMATIC
July 2000 ? Macintosh ATP improvements
July 2000 4 Symmetrical comp. data for Type 51.52,53 DCNEW–23/10
July 2000 1–E–1 NOCALC to suppress batchmode graphics
July 2000 1–E–1 NOSM59 in STARTUP DC–26 / 1

Oct. 2000 3 RELATIVE TACS DIMENSIONS no longer

honored
Oct. 2000 3 TACS X**Y with negative X and Y
Oct. 2000 23 CABLE PARAMETER output improvements
Oct. 2000 ? Trapezoidal rule oscillations DCNEW–30 / illustration with diodes
5,7,8
Oct. 2000 ? STATISTICS Output of PL4 files for each
step IPLOT = 54321
Oct. 2000 ? OVERLAY and APPEND for PL4 DC–40 / 4
DC–49
Oct. 2000 ? NEW OUTPUT FILE declaration

Jan. 2001 1–L–2 Plotting of COMTRADE PL4 files w. TPPLOT

Jan. 2001 ? Kizilcay Frequency Dependence limits DC–23 / 4, 7
Jan. 2001 ? Watcom STOPTP error correction
Jan. 2001 7 STANDLER SURGE FUNCTION and DC–13 / 9
STANDLER.FOR by Hevia DC–9 / 3
Jan. 2001 ? Compensation troubled by Switches DCNEW–16 / 8
Jan. 2001 ? Kizilcay Frequency Dependence and USE Dc–37 / 8
AR
Jan. 2001 9 TACS control of U.M. rotor resistance DCNEW–16/6,7
TACS–R-thev
Jan. 2001 9 INDUCTION MOTOR DATA, program DC–15
INDUCT
Jan. 2001 ? GTTPLOT improvements
Jan. 2001 1–E–1 STARTUP using ATPDIR DC–37 / 3

April 2001 1–D COMMENT, ENDCOMMENT DC–68 / 4

April 2001 ? $PARAMETER use of RAN (random)
April 2001 ? POCKET.DAT DCNEW–19 / 4
April 2001 9 Servo motor U.M. modeling DCNEW–9 / 3
April 2001 2–A–39 MODELS processes HARMONIC DCNEW–26/1,3
FREQUENCY SCAN DC–52 / 3
April 2001 ? MODELS processing PCVP loop DCNEW–25 / 5
April 2001 ? MODELS POCESSES EXTREMA
April 2001 22 NO IMAGINARY PART with Semlyen DC-62,DC-61/2
April 2001 ? COM2PL4 in GTPPLOT to converts ASCII
to widenn
April 2001 1–E–1 NAMES ARE LEFT ADJUSTED NAMES Also LEFTA^ in
ARE RIGHT ADJUSTED STARTUP

July 2001 3 TACS and MODELS in the same data DC–30 / 4

July 2001 ? Compatibility of MODELS comment cards DC–68 / 8
with TACS

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July 2001 ? MODELS Primer available EEUG secure web site
July 2001 22 SEMLYEN SETUP can be used with CABLE DC–41,
PARAMETERS DCNEW–6
July 2001 4–F List sizes affecting high order PI circuits
July 2001 ? PCVP–$PARAMETER IF-THEN…. DCNEW–26 /
applications in HFS etc. 17, 18
July 2001 ? Type–10 source with block “if” logic DCNEW–19
July 2001 1–K Mathematics within $INCLUDE DC–36 / 3
July 2001 Multiple $PARAMETER blocks DCNEW –19 / 1
DCNEW–25 / 8
July 2001 ? Modify scalar variables recognized by SPY
July 2001 ? SAVE declaration to declare PCVP DCNEW–26 / 4
variables “local’
July 2001 9 6 –phase U.M. machine by Steurer
July 2001 3 TACS supplemental variables evaluated by
PCVP
July 2001 3 TACS pocket calculator
July 2001 ? Pisa-format PL4 files compatible now with DCNEW–21/ 15
PLOTXY
July 2001 1–E –1 NEWPL4 = 2 in STATUP

Oct. 2001 ? MODELS improvements to WRITE1,

WRITE2
Oct. 2001 3 Type–53 TACS larger List size DC–37 / 2
Oct. 2001 3 IF blocks in TACS DC–18 / 5
Oct. 2001 ? MODELS demonstration DC–33 / 1, 3
Oct. 2001 ? MODELS 78 Test Cases DCNEW–28
Oct. 2001 23 DIR DB* display CABLE CONSTANT data
graphically
Oct. 2001 ? $POCKET features (not $PARAMETER) DCNEW–26 / 4
Oct. 2001 ? IF-THEN…in $PARAMETER DCNEW–25 /10
Oct. 2001 9 Compensation in data with U.M. DCNEW–16/10
Oct. 2001 ? Type–68 (Meredith) illustrated DCNEW–25 /1 Transformer with
saturation
Oct. 2001 1–K CONCATINATE INCLUDE files DCNEW –28
Oct. 2001 ? Pocket Calculator loop mode simulation DCNEW–25 / 5
Oct. 2001 1–E–1 Use of NOSORT DC–36 / 6
Oct. 2001 ? Pocket Calculator accepts only FORTRAN
Oct. 2001 ? TACS variable names take precedence DC–18 / 2

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