In 2022, Flex Power Modules celebrates the 10th anniversary of its free downloadable Flex Power Designer tool. After two years of development, the software was in fact first released in 2012, in conjunction with the introduction of Flex Power Modules digital DC/DC converters, the business line of Flex, a manufacturer and supplier of scalable DC/DC power converter solutions that primarily serve the data processing, communications, industrial and transportation markets.
The tool allows users to quickly select products from the catalog and virtually configure them into a system "power tree," set input guides and loads, and then predict a wide range of performance results.
Over the years, Flex Power Designer has been continuously developed to include not only basic performance prediction, but also module and system efficiency, power dissipation, temperature rises, output impedance, circuit compensation effects, voltage excursions with transient loads, and more.
Through its GUI, the software can interface with real systems via PMBus® to set and monitor parameters during system development and then program production parts with the chosen characteristics.
The tool is updated with two major releases per year, and new features currently planned include EMI filter design, support for other recently released products, and additional functional improvements.
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