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Analog,
Digital, Symbolic, RF, HDL, MCU and
Mixed-Mode
Circuit Simulation & PCB Design
TINA
Design Suiteis a powerful yet affordable
circuit simulation and
PCB design
software package for analyzing,
designing, and
real time testing of analog, digital,
HDL, MCU,
and mixed electronic circuits and their
PCB layouts.
You can also analyze SMPS, RF,
communication, and optoelectronic circuits;
generate
and debug
MCU code using the integrated flowchart
tool; and test
microcontroller applications in a
mixed circuit
environment. A unique feature of TINA
is that you can
bring your circuit to life with the
optional USB
controlled TINALab II and LogiXplorer
hardware,
which turns your computer into a powerful,
multifunction
T&M instrument. Electrical engineers
will find TINA
an easy to use, high performance
tool, while
educators will welcome its unique
features for
the training environment.
Spice
Simulation.TINA has one on the most
powerful and best
converging
Berkely Spice and XSpice based Spice
simulator
engine on the market, supporting most
Spice dialects
with parallelised processing and
precompiled
models. In addition to the large Spice
component
libraries in TINA, you can create new TINA
components
from any Spice subcircuit, whether
created by
yourself, downloaded from the Internet,
obtained from
a manufacturer's CD or from portions
of schematics
turned into subcircuits. TINA
automatically
represents these subcircuits as a
rectangular
block, but you can create any shape you
like with
TINA's Schematic Symbol Editor. You can
also use
TINA's parameter extractor program to
calculate
model parameters from catalog or
measurement
data and then add the new devices into
the catalog.
HDL
simulation.TINA now includes all major
analog, digital and
mixed
Hardware Description Languag es: VHDL,
Verilog,
Verilog-A and
Verilog AMS to verify designs in
analog, digital
and mixed-signal analog-digital
environments.
Your circuits can contain editable HDL
blocks from
the libraries of TINA and Xilinx or
other HDL
components created by yourself or
downloaded
from the Internet. TINA compiles HDL into
highly efficient
machine code for speed
optimization.
You can freely combine HDL and Spice
macros and
the schematic components of TINA. Also
you can edit
the HDL source of any HDL components
then simulate
and see the result instantly. With the
built in HDL
debugger you can execute the HDL code
step-by-step,
add breakpoints, watchpoints, display
variable
information and more. In addition to the
large
component libraries in TINA, you can create
new TINA
components from HDL subcircuit.
Microcontroller (MCU) simulation.TINA
includes a wide range of microcontrollers (PIC,
AVR, 8051,
HCS, ARM) which you can test, debug and
run
interactively. The built in MCU assembler allows
you to modify
your assembler code and see the result
promptly. You
can also program and debug MCUs with
the built-in
flowchart tool or in C using external C
compilers.
Super-fast multi-core engine.
Every year, electronic circuits become faster
and
more complex,
and therefore require more and more
computational
power to analyze their operation. To
meet this
requirement TINA v9 has the ability to
utilize the
increasingly popular scalable
multi-thread
CPUs. Computers that incorporate dual
or quad core
CPUs can deliver up to 20-times faster
execution time
for TINA's analysis engine compared
to previous
versions and main competitors.
Open from the Web!Now you can open
TINA designs, models and libraries
as well as
Import Spice .CIR and .LIB files directly
from the Web.
See our TINA Circuits on Web page
where you will
find interesting electronic circuit
files and links
to other websites with circuits and
libraries which
you can open directly from the web
and then
simulate with TINA.
Easy to use
schematic entry. Enter any circuit within
minutes with TINA's
easy-to-use
schematic editor. Enhance your
schematics by
adding text and graphics elements such
lines, arcs
arrows, frames around the schematics and
title blocks.
Choose components from the large
library
containing more than 20,000 manufacturer
models. You
can check schematics for errors with
TINA's
advanced ERC functions. The schematic editor
supports
complex hierarchical designs, team design
and version
control.
Powerful analysis
tools. Analyze your circuit through more
than 20
different
analysis modes or with 10 high tech
virtual
instruments. Present your results in TINA's
sophisticated
diagram windows, on virtual
instruments, or
in the live interactive mode where
you can even
edit your circuit during operation,
develop, run,
debug and test HDL & MCU applications.
Design Tool.This powerful tool works
with the design equations
of your circuit
to ensure that the specified inputs
result in the
specified output response. The tool
offers you a
solution engine that you can use to
solve
repetitively and accurately for various
scenarios. The
calculated component values are
automatically
set in place in the companion TINA
schematic and
you can check the result by
simulation.
This new feature is also very useful for
semiconductor
and other electronics component
manufacturers
to provide application circuits along
with the design
procedure.
Optimization.
Using TINA's built-in Optimization tool
unknown
circuit
parameters can be determined automatically
so that the
network can produce a predefined target
output values,
minimum or maximum. Optimization is
useful not only
in the design of electronic
circuits, but
also in teaching, to construct
examples and
problems. It is a very good tool to
refine the
results provided by a design procedure or
tune already
working circuits.
Integrated PCB
design. The new fully integrated layout
module of TINA has
all the features
you need for advanced PCB design,
including
multilayer PCB's with split power plane
layers,
powerful autoplacement & autorouting, rip-up
and reroute,
manual and "follow-me" trace placement,
DRC, forward
and back annotation, pin and gate
swapping,
keep-in and keep-out areas, copper pour,
thermal relief,
fanout, 3D view of your PCB design
from any
angle, Gerber file output and much more.
Advanced presentation tools. Make
stand-out reports and presentations of
schematic
diagrams, annotations, formulas provided
by symbolic
analysis, Bode plots, Nyquist diagrams,
poles and
zeros, transient responses, digital
waveforms,
and other data using linear or
logarithmic
scales. Customize presentations using
TINA's
advanced drawing tools to control text,
fonts, axes,
line width, color and layout. You can
create, edit
and print documents directly inside
TINA or cut &
paste your results into your favorite
word
processing or DTP package.
Educational tools. Educational tools.
TINA also includes unique tools
for testing
students' knowledge, monitoring progress
and
introducing troubleshooting techniques. With
optional
hardware it can be used to test real
circuits for
comparison with the results obtained
from
simulation. With the Live 3D breadboard tool
you can
automatically build a life-like 3D picture
of a solderless
breadboard. When you run TINA in
interactive
mode, components like switches, LEDs,
instruments,
etc. become "live" and will work on the
virtual
breadboard just as in reality. You can use
this capability
of TINA to prepare and document lab
experiments.
You can also use the integrated
Flowchart
Editor and Debugger to generate and debug
the MCU code,
learning and teaching microcontroller
programming.
Virtual Instruments:
Oscilloscope, Function Generator, Multimeter,
Signal
Analyzer/Bode Plotter, Network Analyzer,
Spectrum
Analyzer, Logic Analyzer, Digital Signal
Generator, XY
Recorder.
Real time
measurements. TINA is far more than a
circuit simulator with
virtual
measurements. You can install optional,
supplementary
hardware that allows real-time
measurements
controlled by TINA's on screen virtual
instruments.
TINALab II multifunction PC
Instrument. With the TINALab II high speed
PC instrument you
can turn your
laptop or desktop computer into a
powerful,
multifunction test and measurement
instrument.
Whichever instrument you need multimeter,
oscilloscope,
spectrum analyzer, logic analyzer,
arbitrary
waveform generator, or digital signal
generator it is
at your fingertips with a click of
the mouse. In
addition TINALab II can be used with
the TINA
circuit simulator program for comparison of
circuit
simulation and measurement results as a
unique tool for
circuit development,
troubleshooting, and the study of analog and
digital
electronics.
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