Product category:
Power Supply ICs and Controllers
News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2006-)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 02 February 2007
Online design centre supports PSU design
The Analog eLab Design Center website now includes a power supply design tool and a simulation environment that allows switch-mode power supply simulation with acceleration.
Texas Instruments has updated its Analog eLab Design Center website, featuring the new SwitcherPro power supply design tool - the newest in TI's Pro Series of tools - and a new release of the TINA-TI 7.0 simulation environment, which now includes SMPS (switch-mode power supply) simulation with acceleration The Analog eLab Design Center provides engineers a one-stop site to learn, select, design and simulate with resources that make it quicker and easier to achieve results using TI's high-performance analogue products
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"TI is committed to providing our customers the best technical support in the industry, including quick answers and user-friendly design tools", said Mike Caruso, Manager of TI's Analog eLab Design Center.
"With our Analog eLab Design Center, designers now have a single site that lets them access the latest analogue product information, design tools and technical information they need to speed their product development".
The new SwitcherPro tool enables designers to quickly and easily create both internally and externally compensated DC/DC power supply designs and analyse circuit performance.
The SwitcherPro tool also has an effortless interface that permits users to work with multiple designs simultaneously.
TINA-TI 7.0 simulation environment includes a comprehensive schematic editor and Spice simulator for mixed signal circuit analysis with PSpice syntax compatibility.
The tool allows for optimised convergence algorithms for faster power management simulations and also provides behavioural elements support.
The online Analog eLab Design Center supports the engineer through all steps of the analogue design process, from concept to completion.
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