TINA v15:

What is TINA and TINACloud?

TINA v15 Dec. 18, 2024

TINA v15 and TINACloud New Features Video

Built in Artificial Intelligence functions (AI)

• Built-in AI Assistant tool for intelligent design, control, and information gathering
• Ability to run AI offline without internet connection or with cloud-based AI services.
• Designing LDO and SMPS power supply circuits
• Selecting and redesigning evaluation circuits from various manufacturers
• Active and passive filter design
• Analog and Digital oscillator design
• Automatic generation of Arduino C code
• Automatic Quiz and Riddle generation for education and training
• AI Image Recognition using Python
• AI Image Recognition using microcontroller code
• AI driven simulation and robot control
• AI-powered step-by-step solutions for analyzing simple DC/AC circuits

Other new features:

• Component activation/deactivation
• Fourier spectrum processing in the Interpreter
• Diagram processing functions, filtering and smoothing
• Advanced multisine analysis with pulse response
• New oscillator and timer circuits

New Components from

• Infineon Technologies
  Synchronous Buck regulators
  TDA38806 6 A, TDA38812 12 A

• Texas Instruments
  20MSPS SAR ADCs With Fully Differential ADC Input Drivers:
  ADS9217, ADS9219, ADS9219, ADS9227, ADS9228, ADS9229

• Nisshinbo Micro Devices
  Converters with Synchronous Rectifiers
  RP509, 0.5A/1A PWM/VFM Step-down
  RP602, RP604, Buck-boost DC/DC converter
  
  NJW1933 Step-Down Switching Regulator
  Switching Regulator ICs for Buck Converter, Current Mode Control
  NJW4128, NJW4132, NJW4133, NJW4171
  NJW4140 MOSFET Drive Switching Regulator IC for Boost / Fly-back Converter, Voltage Mode Control
  NJW4142 MOSFET Drive Switching Regulator IC for Boost / Fly-back Converter, Current Mode Control
  NJW4152 Switching Regulator IC for Buck Converter, Voltage Mode Control
  NJW4814 Dual H-Bridge Driver with Boost Converter
  
  R1271, R1273, R1276, R1278 Synchronous PWM Step-down DC/DC Converters
  RP506 PWM/VFM Step-down DC/DC Converter with Synchronous Rectifier
  RP509, 0.5A/1A PWM/VFM Step-down DC/DC Converter with Synchronous Rectifier
  RP512, RP517 Ultra-low Quiescent Current 300 mA Buck DC/DC Converters
  RP602, 6.5 V (Max. rating) buck-boost DC/DC converter with synchronous rectifier
  RP604, buck-boost converter featuring a minimum supply current and a high efficiency at low-load

• Würth Elektronik
  Switching Voltage Regulators
  171011801, 171021801, 171013801, 171023801, 171033801

• STMicroelectronics
  Buck Switching Regulators
  L6983CQTR, L6983NQTR, ST1S40

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

TINA v12 and TINACloud v2 New Features Video

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