Advanced WEBENCH tools for expert powersupply designers
Steve Taranovich - July 27, 2015
I have always had great respect for WEBENCH since the day it was introduced on February 17, 1999
by National Semiconductor. It has come a very long way since then, especially since TI merged with
National and has valued and improved the WEBENCH solution as an important part of its portfolio.
Texas Instruments has now added a series of advanced tools in WEBENCH® Power Designer that
give experienced design engineers extensive design control, analysis and trouble-shooting capability
to create complex power-supply designs. Beginning with control-loop compensation and extending to
simulation export, WEBENCH Power Designer now puts advanced tools in the hands of expert
design engineers to create power supplies for their system designs. For more information or to start
a design, visit www.ti.com/advpwr-pr.
TI’s WEBENCH tools, always provided at no cost to the designer, have simplified and accelerated
the design process for more than 325,000 engineers worldwide since 1999.
WBENCH is also still simple to use by both novices or time-pressed engineers for fast creation,
optimization and simulation of a power design. There are three new advanced WEBENCH tools that
will provide experienced power-supply design engineers extensive control over complex designs,
along with the ease of exporting simulations to computer-aided design (CAD) platforms from Altium
and Cadence Design Systems Inc. Watch a video to learn more about the new WEBENCH advanced
tools.
WEBENCH Advanced Options
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Developing a power-supply solution for complex design requirements is an iterative and timeconsuming task. These new advanced options in WEBENCH Visualizer include a set of easy-to-use
controls to specify complex design requirements, such as manufacturability, component constraints
and design control. Get more information at www.ti.com/advancedoptions.
WEBENCH Compensation Designer
One of the many challenges of power supply design is an unstable control loop. This new WEBENCH
Compensation Designer tool predicts and automatically corrects errors in the control loop resulting
in a stable power-supply design. Novices or time-pressed engineers can take heart because
WEBENCH comes to your rescue to prevent these problems from cropping up in your breadboard
and prototype.
Advanced power experts will also benefit with a manual mode to tune the control loop for more
bandwidth and stability in their designs. Get more information at
www.ti.com/compensationdesigner.
WEBENCH Simulation Export
This added feature really helps the designer to use a simulation tool with which they are most
familiar. This will enable faster time to market for the design engineer.
The new WEBENCH Simulation Export tool moves the power-supply schematic into the user’s
preferred simulation environment. With just a couple of clicks and no intermediary software,
WEBENCH Power Designer quickly exports the complete design to the TINA-TI™ simulator or Altium
Designer and Cadence OrCAD and PSpice tools. WEBENCH Simulation Export joins TI’s WEBENCH
Schematic Export and PCB Export tools, which enable engineers to create their power supply design
and easily download the layout directly to five popular CAD tools. Get more information at
www.ti.com/simulationexport.
For more information, read the blog “New advanced WEBENCH® tools empower the expert power
supply designer.”
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