SMPS designers care about reliability of their products. In this video we will demonstrate how PEPro can now perform a thermal analysis to discover regions of failure, and reduce number of board spins.

PathWave Design 2024 for Power Electronics

Keysight’s PathWave ADS 2024 software release continues the innovation that has made it the industry’s most trusted Power Electronics (PE) Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software tools. The PathWave ADS 2024 release for Power Electronics offers:

  • Thermal Analysis Board-Level: Analyze hot spots on your PCB via a graphical heat map
  • Thermal Analysis Schematic-Level: compute power losses and estimate junction temperatures on your schematic design

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ADS Power Electronics Board-Level Thermal

Thermal analysis of a three phase inverter design example provided in ADS

Board-level Thermal Analysis

Board-level thermal Analysis in PEPro enables you to:

  • Use the power electronics designer to simulate the thermal effects on the PCB
  • Identify hotspots before going into prototype
  • Visualize the heat distribution on the board using a heat map

Schematic-level Thermal Analysis

Schematic-level thermal Analysis in PEPro enables you to:

  • Use the power electronics designer to estimate junction temperatures
  • Calculate power losses on your switching devices
  • Export results from schematic to board level thermal analysis
ADS Power Electronics Schematic-Level Thermal

Thermal heatmap of a T-type inverter design

Peak-current controlled buck regulator design used in electromagnetic interference (EMI) curriculum

Peak current-controlled buck regulator design used in EMI curriculum

Power Electronics EMI Curriculum Handbook

This new handbook provides hands-on learnings experience on the fundamentals of electromagnetic interference (EMI) in Power Electronics.

  • Learn about EMI effects in a power converter design via 8 experiments
  • Simulate using Keysight’s ADS and PEPro simulation software
  • Validate with measurement using Keysight instruments

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Power Electronics EMI Laboratory

Switched-Mode Power Supply (SMPS) Performance Test Bench

The new SMPS Performance Test Bench:

  • Enables designers to run a series of simulated tests, either in a schematic design environment for a schematic-only type simulation or in the PEPro environment for a post-layout type simulation which includes the layout parasitics
  • Offers a transient recovery test and efficiency test which enable designers to gain insight into the behavior of designs under various loading conditions
Double Data Rate Memory (DDR) – Keysight

Watch Building Your Own Switching Device Models in ADS for SMPS Design that was launched in ADS 2023.

Power Electronics Model Builder (PEMB)

IGBT Model Extraction Now Available!

The PEMB:

  • Enables the designer to build custom models for Si, SiC, and IGBT switching devices
  • Builds models directly from digitizing the IV and CV curves from the vendor datasheet 
  • Fits digitized data using the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) in the model creation process

Power Electronics Demo Videos

Building Your First Switched Mode Power Supply in ADS: The Basics

This video shows you how to get started with building Power Electronic converters in PathWave ADS and PEPro.

Building Your Own Switching Device Models in ADS for SMPS Design

This video shows how to use the ADS Power Electronics Model Builder to create accurate custom characteristics in your device models when designing Switched-Mode Power Supplies.

Optimize Your Switched-Mode Power Supply Design

Learn how to use the PathWave ADS optimizer function to set a design goal and simulate multiple designs in a single simulation run.

Software: PathWave Design for Power Electronics

PathWave Advanced Design System

PathWave Advanced Design System

PathWave ADS offers market-leading circuit design and simulation software with integrated design guidance via templates to help you get started faster.

PathWave Device Modeling (IC-CAP)

PathWave Device Modeling (IC-CAP)

IC-CAP is the industry standard for DC and RF semiconductor device modeling. IC-CAP extracts accurate compact models used in high speed/digital, analog and power RF circuit design applications.

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