#7-TI-Webench — RobsPCB - PCB Designer

Texas Instruments has a great Online tool, TI Webench to design Voltage Regulators and
more. It makes it seamlessly easy to customize a DC Regulator for example. Or a LED driver,
or a DDR4 power supply. Lets you pick parts. Simulate too. And a important part is, ECAD
file output, Schematic and board file. They support Cadence Allegro, Pads PCB and Eagle
files. You get a nice PDF output to, with the circuit specs, a Bill of Material BOM. Even a
Netlist and footprints / symbols to get started. Certainly the translators could use and
update . The scripts were 16.3. Does run on 16.6. But you need to install a TI we bench tool
first. Did not have any luck in orcad/allegro 17.2 . Because of that, I ended up , designing a
view Voltage Regulators from the paper printout , instead of using the translator script files.
Still , a marvelous Online tool for all Electrical Engineers. Sure they are some folks who love
linear, and do the leg work with spice simulator . Maxim has some nice chips too. But to
have a Online tool and cad output files , is certainly a huge time saver. TI as a
comprehensive chipset. Checkout the LM25141 and the TPS543C20 switching regulators.
For the example screen shots, I just picked a simple switcher LM3150. It does not mean, you
don't need to do any homework. Or that it will work of the bat. But it will get you in the
ballpark. And give you an idea, on what you might run it. For efficiency or thermal, heat,
cost, board Realestate and more. It is immensely helpful . Don't forget the Cad file output,
for schematic , symbols, footprints and even a start board.