The challenge facing designers of electronic power supplies and converters is to achieve greater power density in a smaller package. To attain this goal, engineers must understand the electrical behavior of the system and how each component impacts the circuit behavior and the overall system. Inductors and transformers significantly influence circuit and system behavior and are difficult and costly to design.

Design and Simulation of Power Converters using the Ansoft Power Suite Modeling Integrated Magnetic Components

To achieve smaller, lower-profile designs, it's essential to minimize the size, and understand the effect of, the magnetic components used in converters and power supplies. These design requirements introduce parasitic effects into the power circuit, compromising the design's efficiency. The engineer must evaluate physical design and winding strategy to compensate for the parasitic effects on the waveforms of the design.

Ansoft provides a compete solution for designing and optimizing power converters. You can design and optimize critical magnetic components to meet loss, volume, leakage inductance, and a variety of other requirements using PExprt, Ansoft's easy-to-use power-converter design software. PExprt aids the initial design process and calculates eddy-current effects and gap loss. The software also automatically generates a behavioral model from the design for export to Simplorer®, Ansoft's sophisticated multi-domain simulation software, for system-design validation.

By combining the power of PExprt™, Simplorer®, and a sophisticated library of predefined power-electronic circuit topologies, Ansoft provides a complete design environment for converters and other power supply applications.

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PExprt™
PExprt™ speeds the design and optimization process of transformers and inductors. Using a combination of classical and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) techniques, PExprt determines the appropriate core size and shape, air gaps, and winding strategy of a design. Users can then achieve optimum reliability and performance of the magnetic component efficiently by eliminating prototyping iterations.

Simplorer®
Simplorer® is multi-domain, system simulation software for the design of high-performance electromechanical systems commonly found in the automotive, aerospace/defense, and industrial automation industries.

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