WEBENCH Power Architect accelerates multi-output DC/DC power supply design

National Semiconductor Corp.’s WEBENCH Power Architect is the industry’s first design tool that allows engineers to rapidly create, model and implement multiple-output, high-performance DC/DC power supplies for an entire system. With the WEBENCH Power Architect, system designers can instantly optimize multiple power supplies across several performance parameters including topology, intermediate voltage rails, footprint, efficiency, component count and bill of materials (BOM) cost.

The WEBENCH Power Architect supports National’s new SIMPLE SWITCHER power modules. Using WEBENCH Power Architect’s library of 21,000 components from 110 manufacturers, designers have a wide range of system alternatives for creating large scale complex systems, such as system input sources (VIN) from 1V to 100V; up-to-20 system loads (VOUT) from 0.6V to 300V; power per load up to 300W; system efficiency greater than 90 percent; and per-supply footprints from 14x14mm.

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