Why Use Power Electronics EM Professional (PEPro)
Built for power converter design for power generation and transmission, aerospace-defense, automotive, data center, consumer electronics, and IoT applications.
Keysight Power Electronics Design Software provides a complete workflow for modeling, simulation, optimization, and validation of power converters before hardware is built. Engineers can accurately predict real-world performance using electromagnetic-circuit co-simulation, advanced magnetics modeling, thermal analysis, and post-layout parasitic extraction. By combining schematic design, PCB-aware simulation, and physics-based component models within a unified environment, teams can reduce design iterations, shorten development cycles, improve first-pass success, and deliver reliable, high-performance power electronics products for automotive, renewable energy, aerospace, industrial, and consumer applications.
Key Capabilities
Analyze parasitics and switching behavior accurately.
Predict transformer losses and core effects.
Evaluate temperatures and power dissipation early.
Simulate modern wide-bandgap semiconductor behavior.
Include PCB parasitics in system simulations.
Improve efficiency, stability, and reliability.
Advanced Design System (ADS)
EDA platform for Power Electronics Suite.
Keysight ADS is the premier electronic design automation (EDA) platform for the design of physical layer components that enables engineers to design, analyze, and optimize the critical components that power today's most advanced commercial and defense systems. The base platform contains powerful 3D physical layout and verification, data display, optimization, statistical analysis, Python scripting automation, and AI-Assisted design tools. High-Performance Computing (HPC) options can significantly accelerate simulation times. Additional simulation capabilities such as nonlinear circuit, electromagnetic (EM), electrothermal (ETH) and system provide engineering teams with a choice of value-packed, preconfigured combinations of software modules built for specific design workflows: RF/Microwave, High-speed Digital, Power Electronics, Photonic and Quantum.
Design Cloud (HPC)
Complex product designs need massive and time-consuming simulations. Keysight Design Cloud leverages High-Performance Computing (HPC) technologies that let you run parallel simulations in the cloud, cluster, or server to reduce simulation time and expedite time-to-market significantly.
- SMPS Design
- Magnetics Modeling
- Thermal Analysis
- Steady-State Solver
- PEMB
- Reference Designs
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Resources to Get You Started
The W3631B Keysight EDA Power Electronics Bundle is an all-in-one solution for designing power converters utilizing wide bandgap technologies such as Gallium Nitride (GaN) or Silicon Carbide (SiC) power transistors. It offers a comprehensive solution for designing high power electronic systems specializing in the overall impact of board layout parasitics in the overall performance of the power converter.
Bootcamps
Power Electronics Design
Webinars
Advanced Transformer Modeling for Power Converter Design
eBooks
5 Critical Factors for Power Electronics Design in the Era of GaN
eBooks
The Essential Guide to GaN Semiconductor Device Modeling
Application Notes
Virtual Reference Design from ROHM
Application Notes
Physics-Based Transformer Modeling for Power Converter Simulation
Application Notes
PEPro Thermal Analysis for Power Converter Design
Application Notes
Virtual Reference Design from Wolfspeed
Application Notes
Virtual Reference Design PathWave ADS Workspace for Transphorm tdttp4000w066c
Explore PEPro Products
Products supported with Keysight Power Electronics EM Professional.
PE Circuit Simulation
Built for power converter design for power generation and transmission, aerospace-defense, automotive, data center, consumer electronics, and IoT applications.
Built for power converter design for power generation and transmission, aerospace-defense, automotive, data center, consumer electronics, and IoT applications.
PEPro
Built for power converter design for power generation and transmission, aerospace-defense, automotive, data center, consumer electronics, and IoT applications.
Built for power converter design for power generation and transmission, aerospace-defense, automotive, data center, consumer electronics, and IoT applications.
ADS Core, EM Design, Layout, PEPro, PE Ckt Sim
The W3631B is designed for power converter design for power generation and transmission, AD, automotive, data center, consumer electronics, and IoT applications.
The W3631B is designed for power converter design for power generation and transmission, AD, automotive, data center, consumer electronics, and IoT applications.
PathWave IC-CAP Power Electronics PowerMOS SiC Extraction Package Add-on
The W7016E IC-CAP SiC PowerMOS Power Electronics Modeling Add-on software package enables the extraction of parameters of circuit compact models for Si and SiC PowerMOS devices.
The W7016E IC-CAP SiC PowerMOS Power Electronics Modeling Add-on software package enables the extraction of parameters of circuit compact models for Si and SiC PowerMOS devices.
PathWave IC-CAP Power Electronics IGBT Extraction Package Add-on
The W7017E IC-CAP IGBT Power Electronics Modeling Add-on software package enables the extraction of parameters of the Keysight IGBT model.
The W7017E IC-CAP IGBT Power Electronics Modeling Add-on software package enables the extraction of parameters of the Keysight IGBT model.
IC-CAP Power Electronics GaN Extraction Package Add-on
The W7018E IC-CAP ASM-HEMT Power Electronics Modeling Add-on software package enables the extraction of parameters of the ASM-HEMT model.
The W7018E IC-CAP ASM-HEMT Power Electronics Modeling Add-on software package enables the extraction of parameters of the ASM-HEMT model.
Have Questions? We've Got Answers
Keysight Power Electronics Design Software helps engineers address challenges associated with modern SiC and GaN power devices, including high switching speeds, board parasitics, electromagnetic interference (EMI), thermal effects, and overall system efficiency. It enables more accurate design and verification of converters and inverters.
Keysight combines EM-circuit co-simulation, power electronics modeling, and analysis tools to accurately predict real-world behavior in SMPS designs. Engineers can evaluate layout parasitics, switching performance, EMI, and efficiency earlier in the design process, reducing costly design iterations.
Yes. Keysight Magnetics Designer provides physics-based modeling of transformers and magnetic components, including nonlinear core behavior, saturation, hysteresis, and winding parasitics. This improves converter-level simulation accuracy and helps optimize efficiency and performance.
Yes. Keysight offers both schematic-level and board-level thermal analysis capabilities. Engineers can estimate junction temperatures, calculate power losses, identify PCB hot spots, and evaluate thermal performance to improve reliability and prevent overheating issues.
Keysight solutions support a wide range of applications, including electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, aerospace electronics, power supplies, converters, and inverters. These tools help engineers accelerate development while improving efficiency, reliability, and first-pass design success.