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TINA Versions - What's New Overview

New in TINA 12

• 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.

New in TINA v11

• 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.

New in TINA v10

TINA v10.2

• 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.

TINA v10.1.30

• 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.

TINA v10.0.50

• 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.

TINA v10.0.40

• 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.

TINA v10.0.00

• 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.

New in TINA v9

TINA v9.3

• 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

New in 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 TINAs 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.

New in TINA v8 and TINA Design Suite v8

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.
• Online 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-

New in 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 Design Suite v7 - Includes all TINA 7 features plus TINA's advanced PCB designer

• Autoplacement and autorouting, rip-up-and-retry.
• Manual and "follow-me" trace placement.
• Forward and backward annotation.
• Pin and gate swapping.
• Keep-in and keep-out areas.
• Thermal relief, fan out.
• Plane layers for multilayer designs.
• Split plane layers.
• Gerber file output.
• Footprint Editor.
• 3D view of PCB boards.

New in 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