New features of TINA v11 and TINA Design Suite v11

TINA v11:

v11.2 Dec 15, 2017

• D-Class Amplifiers with Stereo Playback capability
• Extended Arduino library and application examples (Mega, Micro, Mini, Nano, Uno)
• 124+ new AVR MCU models
• Atmel Studio C compiler integration
• New Sigma-Delta converters
• Internet of Things (IoT) Interface and examples
• 2-Line LCD display
• Extended stress analysis for spice macros
• Ripple calculation for given part of curves
• Export of Diagrams in CSDF file format (Common Simulation Data Format)
• New hotkeys for easier use
• Global parameter modification from with the Interpreter
• Undo in Schematic Symbol Editor

v11.1 May 05, 2017

• Enhanced Arduino support
• Undo/Redo in Schematic symbol editor
• Vector diagram in multiple analysis mode (Locus diagram)
• Minor spice syntax extensions
• New delta-sigmna AD converters
• New Infineon RF transistors

v11.0 Dec 09, 2016

• 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

TINA v10:

v10.2 Dec 08, 2015

• 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

v10.1.30 Jan 05, 2015

• 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

v10.0.50 June 23, 2014

• 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

v10.0.40 Feb13 2014

• 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

v10.0.00 Dec 02, 2013

• 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

Online access with TINACloud:

• Now you can run your circuit simulation designs online on PCs, Macs, thin clients, tablets-even on many smart phones, smart TVs and e-book readers. You can use TINACloud in the office, classroom, at home and while travelling anywhere in the world that has internet access
• Same extended semiconductor and IC catalog as in the off-line version
• Updated schematic editor with enhanced wireing tools
• For limited time we are offering a special bundle of TINACloud with all new licenses of TINA

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

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 TINA’s 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 features of 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
• On line 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

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

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