Toolkit for Interactive Network Analysis (TINA) is a

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-based electronics design and training software by DesignSoft of

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. Its features include analog, digital, and mixed circuit simulations, and

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(PCB) design. Dogan Ibrahi
microcontroller programming using “TINA” simulation"
AWER Procedia Information Technology Computer Science 1, 2012 pp. 42-47.

History

TINA was created and developed by DesignSoft, a Hungarian company in Budapest. The first

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version was released in 1993 as TINA 4.0 for analog, digital, and mixed circuits. TINA 9.0 also includes

microcontroller A microcontroller (MCU for ''microcontroller unit'', often also MC, UC, or μC) is a small computer on a single VLSI integrated circuit (IC) chip. A microcontroller contains one or more CPUs (processor cores) along with memory and programmable i ...

(MCU) simulation, RF network analysis, optimization, and printed circuit board design. TINA development was at version 10, released in 2013, and is at major version 11 since 2016. Since 2004, TINA-TI is a free limited version for the support of integrated circuits and applications licensed by

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Versions

TINA software is available in installable and cloud-based versions. Feature versions exist for use in industry John Ric
"Accelerating Power-Supply Compliance to Specification"
Texas Instruments, Power Supply Design Seminar, SEM2000, Topic 6, 2013 and for educational use. TINA allows simulation, design, and real-time testing of

hardware description language In computer engineering, a hardware description language (HDL) is a specialized computer language used to describe the structure and behavior of electronic circuits, and most commonly, digital logic circuits. A hardware description language e ...

(HDL), such as

VHDL The VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) is a hardware description language (HDL) that can model the behavior and structure of digital systems at multiple levels of abstraction, ranging from the system level down to that of logic gates ...

Verilog Verilog, standardized as IEEE 1364, is a hardware description language (HDL) used to model electronic systems. It is most commonly used in the design and verification of digital circuits at the register-transfer level of abstraction. It is als ...

Verilog-A Verilog-A is an industry standard modeling language for analog circuits. It is the continuous-time subset of Verilog-AMS. A few commercial applications may export MEMS designs in Verilog-A format. History Verilog-A was created out of a need to st ...

, and

Verilog-AMS Verilog-AMS is a derivative of the Verilog hardware description language that includes analog and mixed-signal extensions (AMS) in order to define the behavior of analog and mixed-signal systems. It extends the event-based simulator loops of Veri ...

, and for

(MCU) circuits, as well as mixed electronic circuits including

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, RF, communication, and

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circuits. With the integrated and third-party

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tools, generation and debugging of MCU code is also possible both in digital and mixed circuit environments. TINA Design Suite includes an integrated layout module for designing multilayer PCB's with split power plane layers, auto-placement & auto-

routing Routing is the process of selecting a path for traffic in a network or between or across multiple networks. Broadly, routing is performed in many types of networks, including circuit-switched networks, such as the public switched telephone netw ...

, rip-up and reroute, manual and "follow-me" trace placement,

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, forward and back annotation, pin and gate swapping, keep-in and keep-out areas, copper pour, thermal relief,

fan-out In digital electronics, the fan-out is the number of gate inputs driven by the output of another single logic gate. In most designs, logic gates are connected to form more complex circuits. While no logic gate input can be fed by more than one ...

, 3D view of the PCB design,

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, and

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(

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) output. TINA is available on many platforms with multiple versions of the software including TINA-TI, a complimentary limited version of TINA for the support of TI integrated circuits and applications licensed by

since 2004. TINACloud is the cloud based, multi-language, online version of TINA.Hegyesi,
"Education of electronics in University by TINACloud"
Intelligent Systems and Informatics (SISY), 2013 IEEE 11th International Symposium, 26-28 Sept. 2013, pp.385-389. It is running in main browsers without installation through the Internet. TINACloud runs on most operating systems and computers. Since 2014, TINACloud is also used by

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as the engine of Infineon Designer for online prototyping with A/D simulation.

Awards

*2006: TINA 7 Design Suite: Worlddidac Award, Worlddidac Association *2014: TINACloud: Worlddidac Award, Worlddidac AssociationWorlddidac Award
2014

References

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External links

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