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News Release from: Ansoft Europe | Subject: PEmag 4.0
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 July 2001
Software simplifies shrinking power
supplies
Ansoft has released PEmag 4.0 - the latest version of its magnetic component design software for power electronics.
Ansoft has released PEmag 4.0 - the latest version of its magnetic component design software for power electronics The $2 billion dollar power supply transformer industry is faced with significant challenges to reduce size and increase reliability and efficiency in order to satisfy the demands of today's advanced computer and electronic equipment
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Mar 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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To meet these demands the transformer must operate at a higher frequency.
This introduces significant magnetic design issues the manufacturer did not face at lower operating frequencies.
PEmag technology specifically addresses this issue.
PEmag is a customised interface for Ansoft's industry leading electromagnetic finite element technology.
PEmag allows the designer to create geometry by selecting from a database of commercial cores, wires, materials and geometries and virtually build and simulate the transformer without tedious and prone to measurement error prototypes.
Using the finite element solver, PEmag accurately predicts magnetising and leakage inductance, interwinding capacitance, resistance and other essential parameters the design engineer must consider at higher frequencies.
The new release offers a wider range of core geometry, improved library management and improved calculation speed.
"Power supply designers focus attention on the transformer design because it is the critical driver for reducing the size, cost and improving the reliability of the power supply", said Dr Conor Quinn from Artesyn Technologies.
Quinn further stated: "Traditional analysis techniques become less effective with the increasing complexity of our high frequency designs.
Power supply designers need access to more advanced techniques and tools.
PEmag delivers these tools in an easy to use, familiar software environment thereby bringing simulation to the forefront of the design process".
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