Design Suite and Web Tools Streamline Power-System Design
ADI Power Studio, a comprehensive family of products developed by Analog Devices, offers advanced modeling, component recommendations, and efficiency analysis with simulation. It includes LTspice, SIMPLIS, LTpowerCAD, LTpowerPlanner, EE-Sim, LTpowerPlay, and LTpowerAnalyzer, all of which help streamline the entire power-system design process.
ADI is also rolling out early versions of two new web-based tools with a modernized user experience under the Power Studio umbrella:
- ADI Power Studio Planner: The next-generation, web-based tool for system-level power-tree planning, Power Studio Planner gives engineers an interactive view of their system architecture. The tool brings clarity to model power distribution, calculates power loss, and analyzes system efficiency with ease. With its intelligent parametric search and tradeoff comparisons, teams can make faster, better architecture decisions from the start.
- ADI Power Studio Designer: A powerful, web-based tool for IC-level power-supply design, Power Studio Designer provides optimized component recommendations, performance estimates, and tailored efficiency analysis. Guided workflows allow engineers to set key parameters for accurate simulation, configuration, and evaluation. The resulting models simulate real-world performance and work seamlessly with both LTspice and SIMPLIS schematics.
For more information and to experience ADI Power Studio, click here.
About the Author
Lee Goldberg
Contributing Editor
Lee Goldberg is a self-identified “Recovering Engineer,” Maker/Hacker, Green-Tech Maven, Aviator, Gadfly, and Geek Dad. He spent the first 18 years of his career helping design microprocessors, embedded systems, renewable energy applications, and the occasional interplanetary spacecraft. After trading his ‘scope and soldering iron for a keyboard and a second career as a tech journalist, he’s spent the next two decades at several print and online engineering publications.
Lee’s current focus is power electronics, especially the technologies involved with energy efficiency, energy management, and renewable energy. This dovetails with his coverage of sustainable technologies and various environmental and social issues within the engineering community that he began in 1996. Lee also covers 3D printers, open-source hardware, and other Maker/Hacker technologies.
Lee holds a BSEE in Electrical Engineering from Thomas Edison College, and participated in a colloquium on technology, society, and the environment at Goddard College’s Institute for Social Ecology. His book, “Green Electronics/Green Bottom Line - A Commonsense Guide To Environmentally Responsible Engineering and Management,” was published by Newnes Press.
Lee, his wife Catherine, and his daughter Anwyn currently reside in the outskirts of Princeton N.J., where they masquerade as a typical suburban family.
Lee also writes the regular PowerBites series.