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PI Expert Online Features

• Allows power supply engineers to input specifications and automatically generate power conversion solutions designed around one of Power Integrations' IC families.

• Provides all the necessary information to build and test a working prototype including a complete schematic, a bill of materials (BOM), board layout recommendations, and detailed electrical parameter tabulations.

• Provides a complete magnetic design that includes core size, number of turns, appropriate wire thicknesses and number of parallel wires to be used for each winding. Detailed winding instructions for mechanical assembly are also generated.

Integrated into PI Expert Online is PI Xls Designer, a spreadsheet based application that gives the power supply designer more control during the design process. Transformer construction support including detailed winding instructions for mechanical assembly is also generated. PI Xls Designer takes input, output and all other specifications and performs the necessary calculations to design and evaluate a power conversion solution.

New in version 2.4.2

• Enhancements and fixes

  • Updates to algorithm for current sensing circuit component selection

  • Change of preferences for SR MOSFET and VBUS Switch components

  • Simplification of winding layer adjustment algorithm – results in optimal transformer design

  • Updates to product selection filter

  • Updates to USB PD user interface

  • Bug fixes and minor updates

• PI Xls spreadsheet updates

  • Minor updates to HiperTFS-2 Forward Spreadsheet

  • Minor updates to HiperLCS Spreadsheet

  • Minor updates to InnoSwitch3-CE/CP/EP/Pro spreadsheets

  • Minor updates to InnoSwitch3-EP 900 V spreadsheet

  • Minor updates to InnoSwitch3-AQ spreadsheet

  • Minor updates to LinkSwitch-TN2 Buck spreadsheet

New in version 2.4.1.26

• PI Xls now supports BridgeSwitch family

New in version 2.4

• New features in PI Expert Online

  • Updated transformer design engine for InnoSwitch3-CE/CP/EP/Pro offers flexibility in creating custom winding construction and shield windings

  • Features to enable Design Report creation including change log

  • Improved Optimization. User adjustable parameter ranges and optimization priority between cost, efficiency, core volume and thermal performance

  • Update to PIXLS format. Allows hiding section of spreadsheet for easy viewing

• Enhancements and fixes

  • PI Expert designs for all product families now use surface mount components by default

  • Updates to legacy transformer designs for additional clearance/creepage considerations

  • InnoSwitch3 Designs now supported up to 24.5V in PI Expert

New in version 2.3.5

• LYTSwitch-6 update with new part numbers (Feature codes)

• Added possibility to have second (parallel) SR-FET on the output

• Transformer construction now supports new type - Parallel Wound Secondary

• PIXls Design now supports Litz Wire in Transformer Construction

• PI Device database update with additional part numbers (Feature codes) and current limit dependency

• Update to InnoSwitch-3 Bias Calculations

• Updated High Output Voltage design rules for InnoSwitch3 designs. Added update to guidance for use of VOUT-Pin Linear Regulator

New in version 2.3.4.25

• PI Xls now supports DC-DC InnoSwitch3-AQ Automotive (Flyback)

New in version 2.3.4.24

• PI Xls now supports DC-DC LinkSwitch-TN2 Automotive (Flyback, Buck and Buck-Boost topologies)

New in version 2.3.4

• PI Expert now supports Litz Wires

• DC-DC LYTSwitch-6 now supports Design Evaluation in PI Expert

• Calculation Engine updates

• For InnoSwitch-3 Flyback spreadsheets,

  • Interactive Design Evaluation feature for InnoSwitch3-CE/EP/CP/Pro and spreadsheets

  • Updates to InnoSwitch3-EP/CP/Pro with Size 8 GaN devices

• Minor updates to TOPSwitch-JX Flyback spreadsheet

New in version 2.3.3

• PI Expert now supports CAPZero-3

• PI Expert now offers quick links to product documents

• New performance-optimizing bias winding circuit calculations for InnoSwitch3 Family

• Minor updates to InnoMux and InnoSwitch3-MX spreadsheet

New in version 2.3

• PI Expert now supports DC Input for LYTSwitch-6 product family

• New features in PI Expert Online

  • Enables freezing of components prior to optimization

  • Component Database now includes new Surface Mount parts.

  • InnoSwitch3-CP and InnoSwitch3-Pro have a new bias winding circuit calculation for optimizing design performance

  • For all InnoSwitch-3 family devices,

    • Interactive Design Evaluation Report

    • Updated Clamp calculations

• PIXls now supports LinkSwitchTN2-900V Buck Boost

• Improvements in PI Expert Online performance and stability

New in version 2.2.10

• Minor updates to InnoSwitch-CH/CE/EP/EP 900V Flyback spreadsheets

• Minor updates to LYTSwitch-6 Flyback and Switched Valley-Fill PFC with Flyback spreadsheets

New in version 2.2.9

• Minor updates to InnoMux and InnoSwitch3-MX spreadsheet

• Bug fixes

New in version 2.2.8

• New features in PI Expert Online

• InnoSwitch-3 EP/CP/Pro now include additional parts with breakdown voltage of 750 V

• CAPZero support

• Calculation and Optimization Engine update for InnoSwitch3 families

• Magnet wire database update

• PI Xls now supports InnoMux and InnoSwitch3-MX Chipset

• Minor updates to InnoSwitch-CP Flyback spreadsheet

• Bug fixes

New in version 2.2.7.14

• Updates to PIXls InnoSwitch-3 EP/CP/Pro Flyback spreadsheets – Additional parts with breakdown voltage of 750V added to the spreadsheets

New in version 2.2.7

• Updates to PIXls LYTSwitch-6

• Major updates to Transformer Engine for all families – Support uneven primary winding split and other enhancements which provides superior transformer optimization

• PI Xls now supports InnoSwitch3-EP 900V Flyback and LinkSwitchTN2-900V Buck spreadsheets

• Major update to HiperPFS-4 Boost spreadsheet

• Bug fixes

New in version 2.2.6

• Minor updates to LinkSwitch-TN2 in Buck Boost topology

• Transformer Engine now supports Flying Leads

• Bug fixes

New in version 2.2.5

• Minor updates to InnoSwitch3-EP Flyback spreadsheet

• Minor updates to HiperTFS-2 spreadsheet

• Enable Exhaustive Search Optimization method for InnoSwitch3-CP and InnoSwitch3-Pro

• Enhancements in PI Expert Online: added more High Voltage Ceramic capacitors to Component Database; improved Post Filter Circuit components selection; and updated new Design Notifications

• Bug fixes

New in version 2.2.4

• PI Xls now supports TinySwitch-LT in Flyback topology

• Minor updates to LinkSwitch-HP Flyback spreadsheet

• Added Current Sense Circuit Slope components to InnoSwitch3-Pro

New in version 2.2

• PI Expert now supports InnoSwitch-3 CP/PRO

• Improvements in PI Expert Online performance and stability

New in version 2.1.7

• Minor updates to LinkSwitch-HP Flyback spreadsheet

• Minor updates to LinkSwitch-TN2 Buck spreadsheet

• Minor updates to TinySwitch-4 Flyback spreadsheet

• Minor bug fixing

New in version 2.1.6

• PI Xls now supports LinkSwitch-XT2 900V in Flyback topology

• Minor bug fixing

New in version 2.1.5

• Minor updates to InnoSwitch-EP/EP 900V Flyback spreadsheets

• Minor updates to InnoSwitch-3 CE/CP/EP/Pro Flyback spreadsheets

• Minor bug fixing

New in version 2.1.4

• PI Expert Online now supports Design Sharing. Users can send a copy (or ‘share’) their design with other users through a hyperlink.

• Users can now add brief comments to designs directly in the File Manager

• Minor updates to InnoSwitch-3 CE/CP/EP/Pro Flyback spreadsheets

• Minor bug fixing

New in version 2.1.3

• PI Expert now supports two new optimization methodologies for the InnoSwitch-3 Family that significantly increases the number of parameters used in the optimization process. The optimization methodology is user selectable

• Major updates to LYTSwitch-6 Switched Valley-Fill PFC with Flyback spreadsheet, including Transformer Construction

• PI Xls now supports LinkSwitch-TN2 in Buck Boost topology

• Improvements in performance and stability

• Minor bug fixing

New in version 2.0.6

• PI Xls now supports InnoSwitch3-Pro with up to 9 output voltage set-points and improved quick-check feature for USB-PD applications

• Minor updates to LYTSwitch-6 Switched Valley-Fill PFC with Flyback spreadsheet

• Minor updates to InnoSwitch-3 CE/CP/EP Flyback spreadsheets.

• Minor bug fixing

New in version 2.0.5

• PI Xls now supports LYTSwitch-6 Switched Valley-Fill PFC with Flyback

• Minor updates to LYTSwitch-3 Flyback spreadsheets

• Minor bug fixing

New in version 2.0.4

• PI Expert now supports folders in File Manager. This helps organize multiple designs and group similar designs e.g. different versions of one design in one place

• PI Xls now supports LinkSwitch-CV in Tapped Buck topology

• Minor updates to InnoSwitch-3

• Minor bug fixing

New in version 2.0

• PI Expert and PI Xls now support InnoSwitch-3 CE/EP

• PI Expert supports 'Feature Codes' for InnoSwitch-3 CE/EP

• Product Portfolio replaced Product Selector Guide, which is incorporated in New Design Wizard

• Starting with InnoSwitch-3:

  • PI Expert estimates real losses and efficiency of created design

  • Support synchronous output rectification

• PI Xls now estimates transformer fit and losses for InnoSwitch-3

• PI Xls now supports InnoSwitch-3 CP with up to 9 output voltage set-points and improved quick-check feature for USB-PD applications

• PI Xls now supports LYTSwitch-1 (Buck-Boost topology)

• Improvements in PI Expert Online performance and stability

• Minor improvements in other PI Xls spreadsheets:

  • InnoSwitch-CH, InnoSwitch-CE, InnoSwitch-CP, InnoSwitch-EP and InnoSwitch-EP900V (Flyback topology)

  • LYTSwitch-5 (Buck topology)

  • LYTSwitch-7 (Buck topology)