Power supply design tool

25 July 2012 Design Automation

Texas Instruments has expanded its award-winning WEBENCH suite of tools by introducing System Power Architect, an online tool to speed design of multi-output, high-performance DC-DC power supply systems.

The tool enables the user to build and optimise a complete power system from the edge of the card to the smallest point-of-load. In addition to the design and simulation of individual point-of-load converters, it adds the ability to accommodate multiple intermediate bus architectures and safety isolation in conjunction with TI’s hot-swap controllers and isolated power products.

With the System Power Architect, TI claims designers can create isolated power systems with hot swap capability in just about 60 seconds. When driving multiple loads, the designer can customise output voltages and load currents, and also select FPGAs and processors, which are preconfigured with critical requirements, load grouping and sequencing. Other options to select include ripple filter, low dropout regulators (LDO), external sync or separate supply.

For more information visit www.ti.com/webenchspa-pr-eu

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