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OPAL-RT is a Montreal-based maker of hardware, software and platform simulation solutions for real-time industrial simulation in the domains of test and measurement and electrical engineering, among others.

Since its founding in 1997, OPAL-RT has pushed for the use of COTS (commercial off the shelf) and modular, scalable simulators on both FPGA and CPU for reasons of user freedom and cost-effectiveness, platform-agnosticism, and academic/industrial 'open source' user contribution and participation.

OPAL-RT's range of applications include those that work with solar/wind, ultra fast electronic controllers, power grids and networks including microgrids, cybersecurity, the digital twinning of huge power networks, electrical aircraft and vehicles, LIDAR/ADAC, and large-scale EMS/SCADA phasor-domain networks.

While the company initially specialized in real-time industrial simulation (OPAL-RT is a French acronym for Ordinateur Parallèle, Applications Logicielles Real Time), they have come to embrace other solutions such as RCP for rapid, iterative contexts and much faster than real-time context simulation for modern energy grid applications.