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Power Electronics Design Software
Achieve accurate power electronics modeling, design, and simulation
Power electronics (PE) is all about handling power—generating, converting, and moving it from source to load efficiently. Keysight EDA delivers design and modeling tools to accelerate your PE workflow and ensure your designs are accurate, reliable, and built for optimal performance in mission-critical applications.
Designing a Switched-Mode Power Supply
As Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Gallium Nitride (GaN) power devices gain prominence, the evolution of switched-mode power supply (SMPS) designs accelerates, necessitating a new, holistic approach. Crafting these converters and inverters presents challenges stemming from high switching speeds, which amplify concerns regarding board parasitics and electromagnetic interference (EMI).
To meet these challenges head-on, Keysight EDA’s Advanced Design System (ADS) and Power Electronics Professional (PEPro) offer an innovative workflow featuring EM-circuit co-simulation, providing an effective solution for emerging complexities across electric vehicle, aerospace, renewable energy applications.
Watch this video to learn how Keysight’s ADS and PEPro help improve SMPS design accuracy and efficiency.
3D Planar Transformer Model in PEPro
Accurate Transformer & Magnetics Modeling for Power Converters
Magnetics are often the least predictable component in power converter design. Traditional SPICE models using linear inductors and ideal coupling fail to capture nonlinear core behavior, saturation, hysteresis, and layout parasitics. This leads to efficiency loss, instability, and costly board spins.
Keysight Magnetics Designer in PEPro enables:
- Physics-based nonlinear core modeling
- Automatic EM extraction of winding parasitics
- Accurate planar winding and stackup representation
- Unified core + parasitic modeling for converter-level simulation
- Improved loss prediction and efficiency optimization
- Higher first-pass success for high-frequency designs
Streamlining Thermal Analysis
Keysight helps achieve efficient thermal analysis solutions at both schematic and board level.
- Schematic-level thermal analysis: Estimate junction temperatures, calculate power losses, and seamlessly export results for comprehensive thermal considerations.
- Board-level thermal analysis: Simulate PCB thermal effects, identify hotspots early, and visualize heat distribution with PEPro's intuitive heat map feature.
Learn how thermal analysis capabilities in PEPro are essential for optimizing your designs' performance.
Shooting Newton Steady-State Solver
The "Shooting Newton" Steady-State Solver enables you to:
- Achieve faster simulation time for power converter design
- Compute periodic steady-state solution directly
Available only with Keysight ADS: not in most SPICE-based circuit simulators
Reduce Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Effects of Power Converters and Inverters
Electromagnetic interference (EMI) poses a critical concern in SMPS design based on GaN or SiC. Switching signal control transistors inadvertently generate EMI, varying significantly depending on the application and industry standards.
Detecting and addressing EMI issues early in the design process is vital to sidestep costly EMI validation tests in labs and ensure compliance with stringent EMI and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) standards.
Keysight integrates an electromagnetic engine into PEPro, facilitating a virtual conducted and radiated EMI test environment directly at the designer’s workstation.
Noise results from conducted EMI test bench
Layout of Wolfspeed SiC power converter
Digital Reference Designs
Keysight has partnered with industry leaders in the wide bandgap semiconductor (WBG) to create digital reference designs in ADS, including Wolfspeed, Transphorm, and ROHM Semiconductor.
The “digital twins” approach enables designers to accurately account for effects of the printed circuit board (PCB) in their switched-mode power supply (SMPS) designs in early stages of the product development lifecycle.
Power Electronics Model Builder (PEMB)
As power modules become smaller, switching frequencies increase and, wide bandgap (WBG) technologies enable ever faster edge switch rates, there is a growing need for accurate device models.
Keysight's PEMB enables power electronics design teams to:
- Build custom models for GaN, SiC, Si and IGBT switching devices.
- Create models directly from digitizing the IV and CV curves from the vendor datasheet.
- Leverage Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to fit digitized data in the model creation process.
IV curve of a transistor used to create a model using PEMB.
Measurement Setup Configuration for TI-PMLK Buck Converter.
Power Electronics EMI Curriculum Handbook
This Power Electronics EMI Curriculum Handbook provides hands-on learnings experience on the fundamentals of electromagnetic interference (EMI) in Power Electronics.
- Learn about EMI effects in a power converter design via 8 experiments.
- Simulate using Keysight’s ADS and PEPro simulation software.
- Validate with measurement using Keysight instruments.
- Download the Power Electronics EMI Curriculum Handbook.
Find the Product that's Right for You
| Model Number | Product Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| W3631B | ADS Core + EM Design + Layout + PEPro + PE Ckt Sim | Built for power converter design for power generation and transmission, aerospace-defense, automotive, data center, consumer electronics, and IoT applications |
| W3026E | PE Circuit Simulation | Includes Transient/Convolution and the Power Electronics Library |
| W3035E | PEPro | Includes Momentum and FEM Simulators |
| W7016E | IC-CAP Power Electronics PowerMOS SiC Extraction Package Add-on | Keysight PowerMOS SiC model for SiC and Si power devices for power electronics applications |
| W7017E | IC-CAP Power Electronics IGBT Extraction Package Add-on | Keysight IGBT model for power electronics applications |
| W7018E | IC-CAP Power Electronics GaN Extraction Package Add-on | ASM-HEMT model for power electronics applications |
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