Panel discussion with: Robert Lipsett, Site Leader, Thomson BSA Steve Kalafut, Technical Sales Specialist, Kollmorgen Sergio Aguilar, Product Manager for the Optical Safety Products, OMROM STI Curt Willener, General Manager, Power Analyzer Product Line, Tektronix Jeff Perry, WEBENCH Design Center Manager, Texas Instruments Moderated by: Chuck Murray, Senior Editor of Design News, UBM Canon

1. WEBENCH® Design and
Simulation Tools
Jeff Perry
WEBENCH Design Center Director
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2. WEBENCH® tools:
Start to finish design and prototype
1. Choose a part
2. Create a design
3. Analyze a design
4. Build It!
WEBENCH Export
Enter specifications
Optimize for footprint
and efficiency; use
graphs to see design
Generate
schematic/
electrical analysis
WEBENCH Esim
WEBENCH Optimizer
Select part
WEBENCH Visualizer
Generate layout/
thermal analysis
WebTHERM
Design prototype
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3. WEBENCH® Schematic and Board Export
• TI’s WEBENCH power and LED lighting design tools
automatically create custom analog designs.
• With new WEBENCH Schematic Export, designers can
export a schematic directly to five popular CAD formats.
• Advantages:
– No manual schematic entry
– Eliminate errors
– Save time and cost
– Includes component library of 40,000+ parts
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4. Export WEBENCH® designs directly to
CAD environment
Design creation
Paper
design report
Value inputs
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Automatic circuit design
Component calculation
100+ component vendors
Performance optimization
Size optimization
Pricing
Speed/accuracy
Saves time!
Schematic
Export
Export directly into CAD formats
Altium Designer
OrCAD/Allegro
DxDesigner/PADs
DesignSpark
CadSoft Eagle
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5. Export a WEBENCH® design with just a few
clicks
Click to
export
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6. WEBENCH® Export directly to CAD tool
WEBENCH schematic
Exported to Altium Designer
Exported to Cadence OrCAD
Exported to
Mentor Graphics DxDesigner
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7. Thank you!
www.ti.com/webench
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