New features of TINA v8 and TINA Design Suite v8

TINA v8

• Vista style installation and folder scheme
• Behavioral building blocks, nonlinear controlled sources
• Powerful Spice-VHDL co-simulation including MCUs
• Finite State Machine (FSM) editor with VHDL generation
• Flowchart editor and debugger for controlling MCUs
• Any number of MCUs in one circuit
• Extended MCU catalog including PIC18, CAN and more
• Execution time measurement and statistics for Transient Analysis
• Hyperlinks can be added to schematics and to the diagram window
• Extended semiconductor catalog
• Application examples from Texas Instruments
• Labview based virtual instruments
• Interface to build LabVIEW based virtual instruments
• Wave (.wav) files can be used as input
• New Open Examples command in file menu to open built in examples
• Autosave. Save your current schematic or PCB design at adjustable time intervals
• Parameter adding possibility to Spice subcircuits
• Detection of components or nodes linked with convergence or irregular circuit problems
• On line update possibility for libraries, program or both
• Post-processing formulas are stored with schematics, editable later
• Live 3D Breadboard (displaying and animating circuits with 3D parts on a virtual 3D breadboard)
• 3D virtual instruments to prepare and document lab experiments
• Integrated electronic design textbook with "live" circuits (optional)
• SMPS design templates from Christophe Basso (optional)

TINA Design Suite v8: (Includes all TINA 8 features plus TINA's advanced PCB designer)

• Creating "flex" PCBs including 3D display
• Creating PCBs of any shape including round edges
• Buried and blind vias
• Extended catalog
• Improved optimizing autorouter
• Distance measuring tool
• Display of complete 3D circuits including parts connected externally to the PCB

TINA v7:

• Built-in VHDL analysis and VHDL interactive mode
• User defined VHDL components, modifiable on-the-fly
• VHDL, Xilinx UCF generation of digital circuits for synthesis,
  place-and-route and presentations with the TINA FPGA board
• Microcontroller simulation including PIC processors, and ASM debugging
• Steady State Solver
• SMPS (Switching Mode Power Supply) simulation with acceleration
• Stress (smoke) Analysis
• Active and passive filter design
• Logic design (Truth table, Karnaugh table, Quine-McClusky optimization, schematic diagram
  generation)
• Single click 3D component preview

• Open several projects simultaneously and use copy and paste between projects
• Run analysis upon any open project
• New (.TSC) extension for project files to avoid collision with MS Schedule and Accel
• Store all analysis results (node and component voltages and currents) for post-processing
• Powerful post-processor for all analysis results
• XY-plot of any 2 transient or DC transfer results, for example v1(t) vs. v2(t)
• Parameter stepping for any number of parameters
• Parameter stepping given by list
• Multiparameter optimization
• Draw lines, circles, arcs, and arrows in the schematic editor
• Add frame and title block to schematic diagrams
• Phasor diagram
• Voltage arrow to display voltages
• Diagonal lines for circuits such as bridges, delta, and wye (Y)
• Control switches with the keyboard via hotkeys
• Switch providing high and low logic levels directly
• Push button switches
• Fault insertion in wires
• Improved Library Manager for adding new models
• Improved method for changing component values in interactive mode with the mouse or
  with the keyboard via hotkeys
• Control the display of component values and labels separately
• New components: VCO, BSIM 3.3, communication circuits, 74121, 74122, and much more
• Component searching and listing tool
• Embedding faults into circuit files for advanced troubleshooting
• Optional VHDL analysis