New features in TINA v11 and TINACloud
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TINA v11 Release and Season Sales – cont’d
Yes, it’s that time again! After several years of development we are happy to announce the release of TINA v11 and TINA Design Suite v11 along with its fully compatible online version TINACloud.
We are sure you’ll enjoy TINA’s many new features and improvements. We’ve done our best to bring the latest technology to your circuit design and simulation activities, while maintaining the intuitive and easy user experience. TINA is well known for its ease-of-use, and it is equally popular among industry designers, educators and students throughout the world.
In addition to the tons of features in TINA v6-10 here are some of the new features of TINA v11 and TINA Design Suite v11 and TINACloud:
In the last three years TINACloud has gone a long way too and now it is also used as an online prototyping tool at Infineon Technologies, one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world. It now includes a lot of new features, Industrial Power & RF components and designs which are also available in the fully compatible TINA.
As a valued Tina user, we are now offering you a special product release:
Order TINA v11 or an upgrade to your licensed version today
(through Dec 30 midnight) and receive
With this incredible time limited upgrade you will be able to run, test and present your circuit designs on virtually every OS including Windows/Mac/Linux and every platform from smart phones through tablets to desktop PCs. Now, wherever you are, including home, office, classroom, traveling to conferences, client offices, and meetings, you can experience TINA’s tremendous feature set.
So, don’t hesitate and place your order now to get all the benefits at once!
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Creating Single and Double-sided PCBs in TINA
to see how easy it is to create PCB circuits in TINA. We will use a battery, a resistor, a switch and two LEDs.
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Creating Single and Double-sided PCBs in TINA
In this demonstration we will show how easy it is to create PCB circuits in TINA.
We will use a battery, a resistor, a switch and two LEDs.
Start TINA.
Let’s first place a battery on the editing screen.
Select battery from the Basic Toolbar
Let’s change its voltage to 3V.
Double-click the Battery and in the Voltage field enter 3.
A footprint is automatically associated with each component.
If you click on the Footprint Name line you can see that a small battery symbol has already been assigned.
Now, click the 3 dots button in the Footprint name field.
The PCB Information dialog box appears.
Select the BH800S_2032 button cell battery symbol (in our case the default symbol)
Click OK or in case no changes are needed click Cancel
then Click OK to confirm the change to the voltage.
Let’s change the resistance value to 68 Ohms.
Double-click the Resistor and in the Resintance field enter 68.
It is possible to change the footprint for the resistor as well, to symbols of various lengths or SMD.
In this case let’s use the R_AX200 W100 footprint (in our case the default) and click OK.
Approve the 68 Ohm resistance value by clicking the OK button.
Click on the Switches tab and select the Alternate switch from the Switches toolbar.
Rotate the switch by 180 degrees, then place it.
Next double-click on it , and in the Footprint Name field, press the 3 dots button and from the Footprint list select the SW-SPDT-TS01-C switch.
Click OK.
Click ok again.
Lastly, let’s add two LEDs.
Click on the Semiconductors tab, then press the LED’s icon on the Toolbar and select LED from the list.
Rotate it by 90 degrees and place it on the schematic.
This is by default a red LED.
Let’s make the second LED of another color.
Place the LED, then double click on it.
Click the 3 dots button in the Type line. The Catalog Editor window appears.As You can see it is a red LED.
You can choose from several different types, each with a different color.
Let’s choose the second on the list, which will be green.
Note that the footprint in this case follows from the component partnumber and is automatically assigned.
Click OK.
Click OK again.
The green LED appears on the screen.
Cick on the first point, trace the wire’s path with the mouse, and click again at the end point.
Next, connect the remaining terminals.
Connect the lower part of the switch to the red LED and the higher part to the green.
Connect the ground, by clicking on the diodes.
Now the circuit is complete.
The red LED lights up immediately.
Let’s click on the switch. The green lights up as well.
To see the realistic representations of the components used in the simulation click on the 2D/3D view switch.
Finally, let’s switch back to the standard schematic symbols, and create a PCB from this circuit.
First, click the PCB Design icon.
The PCB Design dialog window appears.
In the dialog you can choose to modify an existing project or start a new project.
In this case let’s do the latter.
Note that Autoplacement is already selected.
TINA includes a number of board templates which you may use in your designs.
In this case we will be creating a single sided, one layer PCB, so let’s choose the first option.
Note that it is possible to create more complicated two-sided, multi-layer PCBs using the appropriate templates.
Click Cancel
The board dimensions may be customized; in this example let’s use the default settings (with a board width 2 and a board height 1.5 inches)
Click OK, and the components are placed automatically.
Before Autorouting the components most often need to be rearranged.
Use the mouse and the Rotate icons to move the components to their desired positions.
Next, select the Autorouting command from the Tools menu,
or press Ctrl+F5,
and the components are routed.
To see the PCB in 3D, click on the 3D View button.
By switching to TINA’s Schematic Editor screen, you can also see the schematic diagram of the circuit.
Note: Before testing make sure that the DC button is on.
Note that in 3D view it is also possible to see the routing on the bottom of the board.
To do this, hold down the left mouse button and tilt the board to see the underside.
Here we have shown how to create a single-sided PCB in TINA.
In the following section we will show how to make a double-sided PCB.
To turn the design from the previous section into a double-sided PCB you only need to change the layer settings.
Select the Layer settings command from the Options menu.
As you can see the top layer of the PCB is currently unused.
If we change it to a Routing layer the autorouter will use both the top and the bottom layers.
Click the Label in the Type line and then select the Routing from the list.
Click OK to approve the layer settings.
Now two wires have been placed on the top of the board.
To see the changes in 3D, click the 3D View button.
Now on the top of the board we can see one wire running from the LED to the battery and another between the resistor and the battery.
Tilt the PCB to view the routing on the bottom of the board.
Tilt the board back and click on the switch to test it.
This concludes our demonstration of creating single and double-sided PCBs in TINA.
Creating Analog Components with Verilog-AMS
Hardware Description Languages (HDL) are powerful tools to describe and simulate complex electronic devices.
we will show how you can create a macro from a Verilog-AMS (.vams) code and use in TINA. You can create macros from VHDL, Verilog and Verilog-A files in a similar way.
Watch our tutorial video to see how you can create a macro from a Verilog-AMS (.vams) code and use in TINA.
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Using Hardware Description Languages in TINA, part 4: Creating Analog Components with Verilog-AMS
In this tutorial video we will show how you can create a DAC Converter macro-model from a Verilog-AMS (.vams) code and use in TINA. You can create macros from VHDL, Verilog and Verilog-A files in a similar way.
Let’s demonstrate the details.
We will first create the Generator with serial output (SPI). This is given in VHDL. Next, we will create a DAC Converter macro given in Verilog AMS.
Open TINA
Click the Tools menu
Select New Macro Wizard
Type a name for the new macro
In our case: SPI
Change the Settings from Current circuit to From file
Click the Open icon
Select TINA examples
Open the Examples
Verilog-AMS folder
Change the file type to .VHD
then Select the spi file and click Open
Press the Next button
You can either Select the Auto generate shape
or you can load a shape from the library
Let’s select the Auto Generate shape option
then Click Next
You can browse the code and see how easy to create an SPI output in VHDL
Click Next again
and save the macro (SPI.tsm) into the default Macrolib folder.
You can insert the Macro by pressing the Insert button or you can select the
“Insert/Macro…” from the menu.
Click the Insert button
The macro will be attached to your cursor. Place it wherever you wish on the workspace.
Next, we will create a DAC Converter macro from a .VAMS code and we will use the VHDL macro (created previously) and the Verilog-AMS macro in the same circuit to demonstrate that in TINA you can use VHDL and Verilog (Verilog-A, Verilog-AMS) macros in the same circuit.
Click the Tools menu
Select New Macro Wizard
Type a name for the new macro
In our case: DAC
Change the Settings from Current circuit to From file
Click the Open icon
Select TINA examples
Open the Examples
Verilog-AMS folder
Change the file type to .VAMS
then Select the dac vams.vams file and click Open
Press the Next button
Select the Auto Generate shape option
Press the Next button
Change the orientation of the pins listed ont he screen into right
Click the appropriate modul to be selected then click the left button under the orientation field then select right
Change the position of the pins on the right side by using the “Move up” or “Move down” buttons.
Change the position of the moduls on the left side as well:
Click Next
and save your tsm file under the name DAC into your default Macrolib folder
Click Insert
and place the DAC macro on the workspace
Double-click the DAC macro,
then press the Enter Macro button to check its content
The content of the Macro appears
Now, close the HDL Editor Window of TINA
Let’s create the following circuit to test the new DAC model:
Connect the DAC inputs with the appropriate SPI outputs
Draw a wire starting from the CLK pin
From the Meters Toolbar select the Voltage Pin and connect to the wire
Double-click the Voltage Pin & rename the label into CLK
Continue connecting the DAC inputs with the appropriate SPI outputs
Start drawing the wire from VREF
Select the Voltage Source (VS1) from the Basic Toolbar and connect it to VREF.
Next, connect the Ground to VS1
Connect the Battery (V1) to VDD, and a Ground to AGND
Finally connect a Voltage Pin to VOUTA (Analog Output)
then rename it
Let’s test the circuit by Running Transient Analysis
Click Analysis on the menu then select Transient
then Click OK
Let’s test the circuit for a time period of 1ms
Click Analysis on the menu then select Transient again
Click the Analysis menu on the Toolbar, then select the Transient mode again.
In the Transient Analysis dialog box change the value of the
End display field to 1m
Our DAC Converter works as expected.
Creating Analog Components with Verilog-A
Hardware Description Languages (HDL) are powerful tools to describe and simulate complex electronic devices.
we will show how you can create a macro from a Verilog-A (.va) code and use in TINA. You can create macros from VHDL, Verilog and Verilog-AMS files in a similar way.
Watch our tutorial video to see how you can create a macro from a Verilog-A (.va) code and use in TINA.
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Using Hardware Description Languages in TINA, part 3: Creating Analog Components with Verilog-A
Hardware Description Languages are powerful tools to describe and simulate complex electronic devices.
In this tutorial video we will show how you can create a macro from a Verilog-A (.va) code and use in TINA.
You can create macros from VHDL, Verilog and Verilog-AMS files in a similar way.
You can create a macro from any .vhd / .v / .va / .vams file that contains an entity (interface to the outside world) with its architecture (description of the hardware).
Files with .vhd extension are VHDL files, with .v extension are Verilog files, with .va extension are Verilog-A files and with .vams extension are Verilog-AMS files.
The ports declared in the interface part will automatically appear in the macro symbol (shape). You can associate an automatic rectangular block or a schematic symbol from TINA’s library with the macro.
In case of automatic rectangular blocks you can edit and reposition the interface pins.
Open TINA
Click the Tools menu
Select New Macro Wizard…
Type a name for the new macro In our case: JFET1
Change the Settings from Current circuit to From file
Click the Open icon
Select TINA examples
Open the Examples and then the Verilog-A folder
Change the file type to .va
Open the Device Models folder then Select the jfet.va file and
Click Open
Press the Next button
You can either Select the Auto generate shape or you can load a shape from the library
then Click Next
Check the interface line
Change the orientation of “d” into up, and “s” into down
You can also browse the Verilog-A code
Click Next
and save the macro (jfet1.tsm) into the default Macrolib folder.
You can insert the Macro by pressing the Insert button or you can select the “Insert/Macro…” from the menu.
Click the Insert button
The macro will be attached to your cursor. Place it wherever you wish on the workspace.
Let’s demonstrate the case when you select the “Load shape from the library” option.
Click the Tools menu
Select New Macro Wizard
and let’s name the new macro as JFET2.
After selecting the jfet.tsm file, press the Next button
Select the TINAICS folder
Find the JFET symbol by clicking the long vertical button and then using the scrollbar
Click Next
Check if the uppercase D, G, S symbol pins are properly connected with the lowercase d, g, s macro parameters
if not, you can easily update the connections by dragging the connection labels
In our case no changes are needed.
Click Next
then the Insert button
Place the Macro on the workspace
By double-clicking the macro, then pressing the Enter Macro button you can check its content
The content of the macro appears
Now close the HDL Editor window of TINA
Select the Voltage Source and the Voltage Generator from the Sources Toolbar
Next, select the Current Arrow from the Meters Toolbar, then rotate it
Click the Insert menu
Select Macro
Select User Macros
Select the jfet2.tsm, then click Open
The Verilog-A macro will be attached to your cursor, you can place it on the workspace
Draw the wires to connect the components
Double-click the labels to rename them
and you can also replace the labels if necessary by dragging it while it is selected
DC Analysis
Click Analysis on the Toolbar
Select DC Analysis
and then DC Transfer Characteristic…
The DC Transfer Characteristic dialog box appears.
Check if the parameters under the Main sweep tab are as shown on the screen
Note that TINA also allows Nested Sweep in the DC Transfer Characteristic analysis which makes the calculation of device characteristics easier
Click the nested sweep tab and check the parameters shown on the screen.
According to these parameters
9 ID versus VG curves will be calculated with 9 different VG values including
VG= – 2 and VG = 0 as well.
Click OK to run the DC Analysis
Our test circuit works as expected.
