Power design tools ease system development

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) launches its ADI Power Studio, a family of products that offers advanced modeling, component recommendations, and efficiency analysis with simulation to help streamline power management design and optimization. ADI also offers early versions of two new web-based tools as part of Power Studio.

The web-based ADI Power Studio Planner and ADI Power Studio Designer tools, together with the full ADI Power Studio portfolio, are designed to streamline the entire power system design process from initial concept through measurement and evaluation. The Power Studio portfolio also features ADI’s existing desktop and web-based power management tools, including LTspice, SIMPLIS, LTpowerCAD, LTpowerPlanner, EE-Sim, LTpowerPlay, and LTpowerAnalyzer.

(Source: Analog Devices Inc.)

The Power Studio tools address key challenges in designing electronic systems with dozens of power rails and interdependent voltage domains, which creates greater design complexity. These bottlenecks require rework during architecture decisions, component selection, and validation, ADI said.

Power Studio addresses these challenges by providing a workflow that helps engineering teams make better decisions earlier by simulating real-world performance with accurate models and automating key outputs such as bill of materials and report generation, helping to reduce rework.

The ADI Power Studio Planner web-based tool targets system-level power tree planning. It provides an interactive view of the system architecture, making it easier to model power distribution, calculate power loss, and analyze system efficiency. Key features include intelligent parametric search and tradeoff comparisons.

The ADI Power Studio Designer is a web-based tool for IC-level power supply design. It provides optimized component recommendations, performance estimates, and tailored efficiency analysis. Built on the ADI power design architecture, Power Studio Designer offers guided workflows so engineers can set key parameters to build accurate models to simulate real-world performance, with support for both LTspice and SIMPLIS schematics, before moving to hardware.

Power Studio Planner and Power Studio Designer are available now as part of the ADI Power Studio. These tools are the first products released under ADI’s vision to deliver a fully connected power design workflow for customers. ADI plans to introduce ongoing updates and product announcements in the months ahead.

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