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Designs

  • Waveform input
  • Sinusoidal
  • Square voltage
  • Converter specifications input
  • Boost
  • Buck
  • Buck-boost
  • Forward
  • Half-bridge
  • Full-bridge
  • Push-pull
  • Flyback converters
  • Combinations of "core shape/core size/wire gauge/core material"
  • Automatic design generation for concentric, toroidal, and planar components
  • Ability to design planar components based on the PCB technology

Evaluate

  • Interleaving (1D)
  • Winding stacking (1D)
  • Losses
  • Size
  • Footprint
  • Height
  • Volume
  • Gap length
  • Temperature

Models account for:

  • Winding positioning and stacking, including interleaving (1D)
  • Material characteristics, including nonlinear and hysteresis behavior of the core
  • Frequency-dependent resistance, leakage inductance, and magnetizing inductance
  • Parallel connections
  • Generates Simplorer®-ready netlist models

Results

  • Winding DC and AC losses
  • DC and AC losses
  • Core losses, considering hysteresis and eddy-current losses
  • Major and minor hysteresis loop representation
  • Flux density: maximum value and variation range
  • DC and AC resistance for each winding
  • Leakage inductance
  • Temperature calculation
  • Irms currents
  • Complete model netlist for Simplorer and PSPICE®

Reports

  • Provides a set of possible designs matching user specifications
  • Report files with detailed design data, including manufacturing information
  • Scaled cross-section of each design, including core, winding strategy, and air-gap representation