Using Hardware Description Languages in TINACloud, Part 1: Creating Macros from VHDL

Using Hardware Description Languages, Part 1: Creating Macros from VHDL in TINACloud

Hardware Description Languages (HDL) 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 VHDL (.vhd) code and use     in TINACloud. You can create macros from Verilog, Verilog-A and Verilog-AMS files in a similar way.

Watch our tutorial video to see how  you can create a macro from a VHDL (.vhd) code and use         in  TINACloud.

Creating Macros from VHDL in TINACloud
Creating Macros from VHDL in TINACloud

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  2. An immediate 20% discount from the offline version of TINA
  3. Free license for your second computer, laptop etc.
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Dr. Michael Koltai

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2015 End of the Year Promotion

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The latest and improved version, TINA 10 has been released now with even more exciting features…

What’s new in TINA v10.2 ?

  • Windows 10 compatibility
  • Latest InstallShield 2015 Installer
  • Improved diagram settings persistence, diagrams will “remember” your last axis settings
  • Multistep new “Zoom out” function in diagrams
  • New temperature stepping modes: logarithmic and list
  • New analysis mode: Batch simulation (Analysis.Batch Simulation…)
  • Option for saving compressed TSC files (View.Options…)
  • Zoom or Scroll with mouse wheel, as set at View.Options
  • Pan and zoom support in the schematic editor for touch screen
  • Macro wizard: Configurable pin order & name at auto generated shapes
  • Improved Verilog-AMS: analog events in digital context and more
  • Faster MCU simulation, real time simulation of delays
  • Global parameters in Classic & Educational editions
  • Advanced DRC isolation parameters and Z ordering for copper shapes for PCBs
  • and much more

If you have already upgraded to v10 of TINA you will get this new version for free!

There is also a ton new features and improvements from TINA v6 to v9.

For a complete list of new features and improvements from TINA v6 to v10 see What’s New in TINA  at our website www.tina.com.

End-of-Year Promotion

For those of you who new to TINA or have not yet upgraded to one of our TINA 10 versions, this is the perfect time to catch up by taking advantage of our End of the Year 2015 Promotion. What’s more, when you purchase any TINA 10 new licenses or upgrade you will get:

  1. 30% discount from all prices
  2. Download version with software license key for 3 computers
  3. Online, TINACloud license for 3 years for all platforms
  4. Free HDL package (VHDL, Verilog, Verilog A & AMS)

Don’t miss this great opportunity! Grab your copy now while you are thinking about it. The offer is valid until midnight Dec 31, 2015.

Thank you for your interest in our products. We look forward to serving you for many years to come.

Sincerely

The DesignSoft Team

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Creating & editing wires in TINA off-line version

Creating & editing wires in TINA off-line version

Wiring- connecting components with wire- is an important part of creating schematic designs.

Watch our tutorial video about the available wiring tools and tricks in TINA.

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Download the FREE trial demo of TINA Design Suite and get

  1. One year free access to TINACloud (the cloud-based, multi-language, installation-free online version of TINA now running in your browser anywhere in the world.)
  2. An immediate 20% discount from the offline version of TINA
  3. Free license for your second computer, laptop etc.
Click here to download the FREE trial demo of TINA

 

Michael Koltai

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Feedback Capacitor Low-Pass Filter Pitfalls

Feedback Capacitor Low-Pass Filter Pitfalls

Adding a capacitor in parallel with the feedback resistor of an op amp is an easy way of accomplishing low- pass filtering. This technique works quite well in an inverting  amplifier (see the curves below) but not necessarily in a non-inverting amplifier. If the NI amplifier has high gain, the filtering is not bad– but inferior to the inverting case.  As the NI amplifier gain is reduced, the filter effectiveness suffers. In a gain of +2V/V, there is only 6dB of stopband attenuation. In a voltage-follower   (gain of +1V/V), there is no low- pass filtering at all! In each amplifier, the value of R2 was stepped logarithmically from 100 ohms to 100k.\e(x,2) (Circuit is created by Neil P. Albaugh, TI-Tucson )

Circuit for Demonstration of Pitfalls related with the Feedback Capacitor in Low-pass Filters 
Feedback Capacitor Low-Pass Filter Pitfalls
Feedback Capacitor Low-Pass Filter Pitfalls
Demonstration of Pitfalls related with the Feedback Capacitor in Low-pass Filters circuits

The great feature of the TINA circuit simulator that you can analyze this circuit immediately with TINACloud the online version of TINA.

Click here to invoke TINACloud  and analyze the circuit yourself, or  watch our tutorial video to learn how to create and analyze this circuit with TINA off-line version now under Windows 10  or on-line with TINACloud.

You can send this link to any TINACloud customers and they can immediately load it by a single click and then run using TINACloud.

Download the FREE trial demo of TINA Design Suite and get

  1. One year free access to TINACloud (the cloud-based, multi-language, installation-free online version of TINA now running in your browser anywhere in the world.)
  2. An immediate 20% discount from the offline version of TINA
  3. Free license for your second computer, laptop etc.
Click here to download the FREE trial demo of TINA

 

Michael Koltai
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Creation and Simulation of a 1kV High Common Mode Voltage Difference Amplifier circuit with TINA or with TINACloud

High Common Mode Voltage Difference Amplifier circuit

Achieving a high common mode voltage differential amplifier requires a very high attenuation resistor network.

To minimize op amp input offset voltage and drift errors, an autozero type is used– OPA735.  An OPA335 can be used on a 5V supply. Common- mode rejection is critically dependent on the ratio matching of R3:R2 & R4:R1. These should be matched to extremely tight tolerances. Power dissipation in R3 & R4 are significant. Bypass capacitors are not shown.  (Circuit is created by Neil P. Albaugh  TI – Tucson)

High Common-Mode Voltage Difference Amplifier circuit:
1 kV High Common-Mode Voltage Difference Amplifier circuit
1 kV High Common-Mode Voltage Difference Amplifier circuit
Creation and Simulation of a 1 kV High Common-Mode Voltage Difference Amplifier circuit

Watch our tutorial video to learn how to create and analyze this circuit with TINA off-line version  or on-line with TINACloud

Also if you download  the FREE trial demo of TINA Design Suite you can not only find and run this circuit but you will also get

    1. An immediate 20% discount from the offline version of TINA Design Suite
    2. Free license for your second computer, laptop etc.
    3. One year free access to TINACloud (the cloud-based, multi-language, installation-free online version of TINA now running in your browser anywhere in the world)

Click here  to download the FREE trial demo of TINA  Design Suite

Michael Koltai
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