New features in TINA Design Suite v16 and TINACloud

TINA version 16 is a major upgrade with plenty of new features.

Here are the most important ones:

Enhanced cross-platform support
Dark mode support: optional black background for schematics and simulation results
Harmonic Balance: New analysis method for RF and Microwave circuits
SP32 Microcontroller Simulation
AI improvements
New Components
Powerful DC-DC converter models

Enhanced cross-platform support:

TINA v16 is available for Windows, Apple macOS, and major Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Mint, SUSE, and even Raspberry Pi OS.

Dark mode support: optional black background for schematics and simulation results

Now TINA is also available in light and dark mode. Providing a comfortable, eye-friendly black background for your schematics and simulation results during late-night design sessions, designed for users who prefer a darker, more comfortable interface at any time of day.

Harmonic Balance: New analysis method for RF and Microwave circuits

Using the Harmonic Balance Method In TINA v16 and later versions, you can analyze nonlinear RF and Microwave circuits using the Harmonic Balance analysis method. The advantage of this approach is that it does not require detailed time-domain simulation, which can be prohibitive for GHz-range signals. Instead, you simply specify the desired base harmonics, and the program calculates and displays the resulting spectrum lines.

Using this method you can easily analyse, RF and Microwave Frequency Mixers, Frequency Doublers, Frequency Triplers, Demodulators and other RF and Microwave Circuits.

ESP32 Microcontroller Simulation

We’ve expanded our microcontroller simulation capabilities with new models-including the popular ESP32-C3 and ESP32-S3 models. These additions enable more advanced, realistic embedded-systems design, empowering engineers to prototype, test, and validate ESP32-based applications with greater confidence-before moving to hardware.

AI improvements

Fast offline LLM models
Support for LM Studio
Speech support
Support for AMD GPUs, Intel Arc GPUs
Improvements in the AI AC/DC solver
Improved AI Supported Filter Design
More AI supported Oscillator Circuits
Python code generation using multiple LLMs (ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, DeepSeek, and more)

New Components from:

Infineon Technologies
Texas Instruments
Analog Devices
Nisshinbo Micro Devices
Würth Elektronik
STMicroelectronics
Semtech

Powerful DC-DC converter models

TINA includes many switched-mode power supply models from leading manufacturers-such as Texas Instruments, Infineon Technologies, Analog Devices, Nisshinbo Micro Devices, Würth Elektronik, STMicroelectronics, Semtech and more. Most of these converters are available as a single unified model that supports Transient, Line-Step, Load-Step, AC Analysis, Efficiency-vs-load plots, and automatic redesign to user-defined specifications-all within the same model.

You can redesign these circuits either with the TINA Design Tool or with AI using natural language. The models are also available as fully SPICE-compatible files, so you can use them not only in TINA but also in other simulators such as PSpice, SIMetrix, and more.

If you own TINA 16 or later, you’ll receive new and updated converter models free of charge through ongoing updates.

Enhanced with these new features, TINA can help you even more to advance your ideas and your product definition.

That wraps up our summary on the new features delivered with TINA 16 and its online version TINACloud.