Product Features

Designs | Models | Results | Reports | Libraries

Designs

• Waveform input
  • Sinusoidal
  • Square voltage
• Converter specifications input
  • Boost
  • Buck
  • Buck-boost
  • Forward
  • Half-bridge
  • Full-bridge
  • Push-pull
  • Flyback converters
• Combinations of "core shape/core size/wire gauge/core material" to optimize the number of turns for each possible design
• Automatic design generation for concentric, toroidal, and planar components
• Ability to design planar components based on the PCB technology
• Evaluate
  • Interleaving
  • Winding stacking
  • Losses
  • Size
  • Footprint
  • Height
  • Volume
  • Gap length
  • Temperature

Models

• Models account for:
  • Winding positioning and stacking, including interleaving
  • Skin and proximity
  • Material characteristics, including nonlinear and hysteresis behavior of the core
  • Frequency-dependent resistance, leakage inductance, and magnetizing inductance
  • Gap effect, end effect
  • Arbitrary winding strategies
    • Intra-winding interleaving
    • Twisted wires
    • Bi-filar or tri-filar wires
    • Parallel connections
• Generates Simplorer®-ready netlist models

Results

• Winding DC and AC losses, considering skin and proximity effects
• DC and AC losses
• Core losses, considering hysteresis and eddy-current losses
• Major and minor hysteresis loop representation
• Flux density: maximum value and variation range
• DC and AC resistance for each winding
• Leakage inductance
• Temperature calculation
• Irms currents
• Complete model netlist for Simplorer®, PSPICE®, and Saber®

Reports

• Provides a set of possible designs matching user specifications
• Report files with detailed design data, including manufacturing information
• Scaled cross-section of each design, including core, winding strategy, and air-gap representation

Libraries

• Vendors: Ferroxcube®, Epcos®, AVX®, Magnetics®, Micrometals, Steward, TDK, Metglas
• Core Shapes: POT, RM, EE, EI, EFD, ETD, UU, EP, PQ, toroidal, T, I, DRUM, UI and Laminated
• Conductors: Litz, solid, planar tracks, planar technologies, twisted, square, and foil