Whats new
Whats new
TINA v14:
TINA v14.1 and TINACloud v2 New Features Video
TINA v14.1 Dec. 19, 2023
- Enhanced power dissipation and efficiency calculation
- Enhanced PWL (Piecewise Linear) Solver
- Grid view in diagram window for analytic solutions
- Enhanced diagram window features
- New DC-DC converters from TI, Infineon and Würth
- New ADC and Voltage reference models from TI
- DC/AC circuit analysis course in Python
- TI AD converters:
ADS8686S 16-Channel, 16-Bit, 1-MSPS, Dual, Simultaneous-Sampling ADC With Integrated Analog Front-End
ADC128S102 8-Channel, 500-ksps to 1-Msps, 12-Bit A/D Converter
ADS7042 12-Bit, 1-MSPS, SAR ADC
ADS9817 18-Bit, 8-MSPS, Dual, Simultaneous Sampling ADC
ADS8168 8-Channel, 16-Bit, 1-MSPS, SAR ADC With Direct Sensor Interface
ADS79xx Pin Compatible, 12-, 10-, 8-Bit, 1-MSPS, 16-, 12-, 8-, 4-Channel, Single-Ended, Serial Interface ADCs - TI voltage references:
REF35xxx (1.024-5V) - TI Isolated Amplifier:
AMC3311 Precision, ±1-V Input, Reinforced Isolated Amplifier With Integrated DC/DC Converter - Infineon DC-DC converters:
TDA38825 20 A synchronous Buck regulator
TDA38640 OptiMOS iPOL 40A Single-voltage Synchronous Buck Regulator with SVID and I2C - Würth DC-DC converter:
171031801
More details on TINA v14 Dec. 19, 2022
- Multisine simulation
- PWL (Piecewise Linear) Solver
- New RF components: Circulator, 3- and 4-port Directional Couplers
- User-defined Fast Analytic solver for SMPS and other devices both in Interpreter and Python
- 7 HDL languages: VHDL, VHDL-AMS, Verilog, Verilog-A, Verilog-AMS, SystemVerilog, SystemC
- Faster solution algorithms
- Inverse Laplace Transform
- Full Python programming language for additional calculations, post-processing and more
- Python support in the Design Tool
- DC-DC Converter Application Circuit Search
- TINA and TINACloud e-book (440 pages) with Tutorial videos
- TINA v14 runs on Mac with one step installation including Wine
- New components:
Infineon XMC4400 MCU
Infineon Gate drivers: 2edf8275f, 2edf9275f, 2eds9265h, 2eds7165h
Infineon/IR POL regulator ICs: IR3823A, IR3899A, IR3447A, IR3846A, TDA38820, TDA38840
TI voltage reference models: REF7012, REF7025, REF7030, REF7033, REF7040, REF7050
TI SAR ADC models: ADS79xx, ADS8860
STMicroelectronics: ST1S40 DC step-down switching regulator IC
Sensors: Ultrasonic, Light, Infrared, PIR
v12.3 Dec. 6, 2021
- Improved simulation engine with faster and better convergence properties
- Infineon XMC1400 microcontroller support
- Support for the Digilent Basys 3 and the Terasic DE10-Lite FPGA boards
- Intel Quartus FPGA export
- Improved simulation speed for AVR devices
- Improved setup for installation on Wine for Linux
- Arduino Shield, Module and Breakout components
- Support for Flowcode 9 from Matrix TSL
- More than 700 power electronic circuits and devices from Infineon Technologies
- EEPROM and ROM models
- 7 Segment display 4 digit model
- New NXP microcontroller devices
- New AVR devices: ATMega4808, ATMega4809
- Raspberry Pi 3 support
- New Arduino model: MKR1000
- Improved IOT interface: Arduino support
- Arduino Wifi101 support
- Sensor models: Ultrasonic, PIR, Light, and Infrared distance sensors
- Schematic export to Altium and ORCAD (in Industrial version)
- More than 700 power electronic circuits and devices from Infineon Technologies
What else is new in TINACloud?
- Voltage and Current animation
- Motor animation
- Improved Bill of Materials
- Hierarchical macro viewer
- Text tool in Diagram window
- Arduino compiler
- Google Cloud IOT interface
- Curve panes editor
- Dual axes
- Post processor in Diagram Window
- Formatted texts in circuit editor
- Intel Quartus FPGA export
v12.2 Dec. 16, 2020
- EEPROM and ROM models
- 7 Segment display 4 digit model
- New NXP microcontroller devices
- New AVR devices: ATMega4808, ATMega4809
- Improved IOT interface: Arduino support
- Arduino Wifi101 support
- Sensor models:
- Ultrasonic sensor
- PIR sensor
- Light Sensor
- Infrared distance sensor
- More than 590 power electronic circuits and devices from Infineon
v12.1 Dec. 16, 2019
- Schematic export to Altium and ORCAD (in TINA Industrial)
- Google Cloud IOT interface
- New Arduino model: MKR1000 support
- Raspberry Pi 3 support (32 bit)
- Ultrasonic Distance sensor
v12.0 Dec. 12, 2018
- 32-bit and 64-bit version
- Power dissipation and efficiency calculation
- IBIS model import and analysis
- Integrated cursor display in the diagram window
- Cursor displays for all curves in transient diagrams
- Syntax highlighting in Spice and HDL editors
- HDL library compilation and management
- Global parameter stepping
- Enhanced RF component insert dialog
- S-parameter wizard
- Spice control command editor (.AC, .DC, .NOISE, .TRAN)
- Enhanced support of PSpice format digital blocks
- Running Spice simulation from command line (external tool for netlist format)
- Running TINA from command line (.TSC format)
- Store last settings of virtual instruments
- Control for automatic separation of outputs in the diagram window
Convergence improvements
- Auto converge (Automatic solution of convergence problems with system or user defined different parameter sets)
- Transient simulation with zero initial voltages if operating calculation fails
New device models
- New Delta-Sigma ADC devices
- BSIM3V3.2 model
- GaAs devices
- GaN devices
Advanced MCU support
- More than new 500 MCUs, 1400 MCUs total
- PIC16 microcontrollers (222 devices)
- STM32 F4, F7 microcontroller support (227 devices)
- PIC18, PIC32 CAN interface support
- Texas Instruments Tiva C Series TM4C123x Cortex-M4 microcontroller support (51 devices)
- MCP23S17 I/O expander support
- Texas Instruments Sitara AM3358 processor support
- Serial Monitor window for monitoring serial communication
Other new features
- Interpreter functions for standard values for components (E series)
- Set global parameter as input of DC transfer calculation
- Add comments to design tool input parameters
- Hotkey editor – define custom hotkeys
- Show partial result of transient simulation if simulation is aborted
- Advanced analysis control links
PCB Design
- Bus connection
- Transmission line design (Differential pair)
- Block repetition (Macro-block copy)
TINACloud
- Schematic editor in the main window
- Instant save of any changes in circuit
- Virtual instruments
- Advanced analysis control links
- PCB Design
TINA v11:
v11.2 Dec 15, 2017
- D-Class Amplifiers with Stereo Playback capability
- Extended Arduino library and application examples (Mega, Micro, Mini, Nano, Uno)
- 124+ new AVR MCU models
- Atmel Studio C compiler integration
- New Sigma-Delta converters
- Internet of Things (IoT) Interface and examples
- 2-Line LCD display
- Extended stress analysis for spice macros
- Ripple calculation for given part of curves
- Export of Diagrams in CSDF file format (Common Simulation Data Format)
- New hotkeys for easier use
- Global parameter modification from with the Interpreter
- Undo in Schematic Symbol Editor
TINA v11.2 News Video
v11.1 May 05, 2017
- Enhanced Arduino support
- Undo/Redo in Schematic symbol editor
- Vector diagram in multiple analysis mode (Locus diagram)
- Minor spice syntax extensions
- New delta-sigmna AD converters
- New Infineon RF transistors
v11.0 Dec 09, 2016
- 8,000+ new parts, including power electronics devices
- SystemC support
- Create Digital filters in SystemC and run in TINA
- Add MCUs in SystemC to TINA
- Infineon design folder with industrial designs
- Industrial Power, Lighting, Motor Control application circuits
- XMC microcontrollers and application circuits
- Support of the free-of-charge XMC code generation platform DAVE.
- Efficiency-, Average value- and Frequency-meters
- Analysis control links
- Advanced Macro editing
- SAR and Sigma-Delta ADCs
- DACs with SPI
- I2C , SPI bus simulation
- PM bus, SM bus simulation and monitors
- Transient Noise Analysis
- Transient Noise Generator
- Popup text
- BSIM4 model
- Microchip XC8 compiler support
- MATRIX FLOWCODE 7 support
- Arduino support
- Smart wire
- Enhanced I/O assignment
- Post processing of Fourier Spectrum
- Export of Diagrams in CSD format (Common Simulation Data File)
- Advanced “Remember diagram settings” option, saved with the circuit
PCB Design
- Importing in 3D Enclosure models in industry standard formats
- Visualization of PCB design with Enclosures in 3D
- Exporting PCB with Enclosure in industry standard formats
- 3D printer support
- Importing Footprints in 2D and 3D in industry standard formats
TINA v10:
v10.2 Dec 08, 2015
- Windows 10 compatibility
- Popup text
- Export of schematic editor and diagram window content in png and gif format
- gif and png picture import in schematic editor
- New temperature stepping modes: logarithmic and list
- Direct load of s1p/s2p files into an S parameter device (1 an 2 ports)
- Default ordering of terminals can be modified in New Macro Wizard dialog autoshape mode
- Pan and zoom support in the schematic editor for touch screens
Diagram Window
- Improved diagram settings persistence. Diagrams will “remember” your last axis settings if “Options.Remember diagram settings” is set.
- New multistep “Zoom out” function
- Number of visible separated curves can now be changed by Shift-clicking the scroll up/down button
PCB Design
- Advanced DRC isolation parameters
- Individual isolation settings and Z ordering for copper shapes
v10.1. 30 Jan 05, 2015
- New page of the New macro wizard allows to modify the default name and/or position of pins when Autoshape mode is selected in case of a Spice macro
- New analysis mode: Batch simulation (Analysis.Batch Simulation…)
- Functions (not just numbers) are supported in the attributes of a Spice TABLE function (eg. TABLE in TABLE), new spice functions: FLOOR, CEIL, STATE
- Option for saving compressed TSC files (View.Options…)
- Nested sweep option in DC Transfer characteristics mode
- Spice model support in Verilog A designs
v10.0.50 June 23, 2014
- Faster MCU simulation, real time simulation of delays
- Verilog-AMS: analog events in digital context
- New format at Fourier analysis: D * cos(kwt + fi)
- TINA accepts both M and MEG as mega (1e6), but mega is always displayed as MEG (Spice)
- Macro wizard: Configurable pin order & name at auto generated shapes
- Zoom or Scroll with mouse wheel, as set at View.Options
- New features in the HDL editor
v10.0.40 Feb 13 2014
- Global parameters in Classic, Educational editions
- Added reference voltage in the Fourier spectrum dialog
- Added MicroBasic lst file handling support in the hex/lst debugger
v10.0.00 Dec 02, 2013
- Windows 8 compatibility
- Multilanguage capability, instant language change for licensed languages
- Open project files with preview of schematics and mechatronics
- Edif import
- Global Spice variables
- Integration with TINACloud, files upload and download
- Optional Mechatronics extension
- KLU – a faster linear solver and better convergence on large-size or special circuits
- Enhanced and accelerated VHDL and Verilog simulation 10x times faster than in v9
- Xilinx simprim simulation in digital and in mixed mode
- Verilog A
- Verilog AMS
- MCU C compiling on 8051, AVR, PIC16, PIC18, PIC32, ARM
- Linux simulation on ARM MCU
- PSpice compatible AD-DA interface
- Oscilloscope works together with the interactive mode
- Frequency and waveform parameters are shown with cursors
- Hotkeys to AC and Transient Analysis
- Cursor Max and Min functions added to the Process menu
Online access with TINACloud:
- Now you can run your circuit simulation designs online on PCs, Macs, thin clients, tablets-even on many smart phones, smart TVs and e-book readers. You can use TINACloud in the office, classroom, at home and while travelling anywhere in the world that has internet access
- Same extended semiconductor and IC catalog as in the off-line version
- Updated schematic editor with enhanced wireing tools
- For limited time we are offering a special bundle of TINACloud with all new licenses of TINA
TINA v9.3 May, 2010
- Works both on Windows 7 and 8
- 124 new PIC24 MCU models
- 24 ARM MCU models
- 250+ new opamp models from National Semiconductors
- 300+ new power management (SMPS) and other ICs from Texas Instruments with hundreds of application circuits!
- 800+ new opamp models from Analog Devices
- More than 1000 new inductor models from Würth Elektronik
TINA v9:
- Full Vista and Windows 7 compatibility
- Multi core support
- Enhanced analysis speed and convergence
Up to 10 times higher speed on 1 core, 15x on dual core, 20x on quad core - Advanced powerful Spice-VHDL mixed mode analysis
- Extended catalog with ARM 7, ARM 9 and HCS08 microcontrollers, more SMPS ICs models, realistic ADC and DAC models, LCD display, Bi-color LEDs
- Extended MCU simulation, USB and other modules
- Programmable Design Tool where users can implement design procedures for calculating and setting circuit parameters so that the circuits can produce predefined target output values.
- Extended flowchart tool: PIC, AVR, 8051, code box, USART, external interrupt handling
- Open and save TINA designs, models and libraries directly from the Web
- Import Spice .CIR and .LIB files directly from the Web
- Import Libraries, Designs and Examples from any earlier versions of TINA v7 and later.
- Show analysis results on diagrams during analysis
- Fast diagram drawing and processing speed, even for very large circuits
- New tool in the View menu of the diagrams for easier hiding and showing curves on diagrams
- New more effective storing of analysis results, save all analysis results for all circuits without speed compromise
- Parametrizable output curve filter for even more effective storage of results
- Scrollbars for browsing multiple diagrams on the same page
- New diagram cursor tools to find and annotate
- local and global maximum, minimum
- gain and phase margins
- zero crossover frequency
- horizontal and vertical coordinates
- Combinational and parallel stepping , show stepping cases (test benches) in separate diagrams
- More advanced tools for addition of parts to TINA from semiconductor manufacturers both from downloaded files and directly from the internet
- Node list in post processor now displays macro names and local node names in the relevant macros
- Minimize TINA main window while analysis is running
- Run two TINA instances on the same computer
- Multi-level, hierarchical ERC. Checks the main or any subcircuts, or the whole circuit in full depth
- ERC detects and shows floating nodes in Spice subcircuits
- Open Examples command in File menu, for easier return to TINA’s Examples folder
- Open .CIR files from Open command in the File menu
- New arrow button in Open dialog, for easier finding TINA EXAMPLES or User folders
- Updated and extended examples under the EXAMPLES folder
- Conversion of circuits to TINA v7 format, for compatibility with TINA v7 and v8 and v9
- Detailed Transient Statistics from the View menu
- TINA v9 is now digitally signed by DesignSoft
PCB Design
- G-Code export of PCB designs for creating control files for milling machines
- Extended PCB footprint catalog
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 (in v8.0 for PIC MCUs only)
- 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
- Play calculated waveforms on PCs multimedia system
- Export calculated waveforms as a *.wav file
- 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
TINA Pro 6:
- 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