Santa Clara, CA and Kyoto, Japan, Dec. 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ROHM Semiconductor at the moment introduced the latest addition of a brand new thermal evaluation perform to the ROHM Solution Simulator. This new function permits circuit and system designers within the automotive and industrial markets to collectively confirm energy gadgets and driver IC thermal points on totally different resolution circuits.
ROHM Solution Simulator, which runs on ROHM’s web site, makes it potential to hold out quite a lot of simulations at no cost – from part choice to particular person gadget and even system-level verification. This allows simple and correct verification of ROHM merchandise, equivalent to SiC gadgets in energy semiconductors, driver/energy provide ICs, and passive elements (i.e., shunt resistors) in resolution circuits underneath near-actual software circumstances.
ROHM Solution Simulator was launched in 2020, in keeping with the corporate’s total focus: growing and supporting software circuits that maximize the traits of driver ICs and energy gadgets designed to produce excessive energy within the automotive and industrial tools markets. In this context, the ROHM Solution Simulator allows full circuit verification of energy semiconductor and analog ICs. The software is freed from cost, and the software program has been nicely acquired for its applicability and excessive accuracy.
The newly added thermal evaluation perform might be carried out in resolution circuits for gadgets and functions the place warmth is more likely to turn out to be a problem in digital circuit design. Examples are PTC heaters (heaters particularly designed for electrical automobiles with out inner combustion engines) outfitted with IGBTs and shunt resistors, in addition to DC/DC converter ICs and LED drivers as a way to meet the rising demand to simulate temperature throughout circuit operation.
This is the one simulator within the business that permits web-based electrically and thermally coupled evaluation of not solely of the semiconductor chip (junction) temperature throughout operation, but additionally pin temperatures in addition to thermal interference of board elements on options circuits that embody each energy semiconductors and ICs together with passive elements. As a end result, thermal evaluation that used to take as a lot as one full day can now be carried out in about ten minutes (100x quicker than standard strategies). This permits customers to rapidly and simply verify the temperature of assorted elements of the gadget earlier than prototyping (as an alternative of after, as is at present the case), decreasing the necessity for rework. At the identical time, the quantity of growth assets required for functions the place warmth is a matter lower.
Going ahead, ROHM will proceed to implement thermal evaluation capabilities in options circuits appropriate with ROHM Solution Simulator, specializing in the newest SiC gadgets, to additional scale back the assets required for software growth and forestall points.
ROHM Solution Simulator
Click on the hyperlink under to entry the devoted web site and register as a person to start utilizing the ROHM Solution Simulator. Supporting documentation and movies required to be used can be out there.
https://www.rohm.com/solution-simulator
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