STMicroelectronics Teams with Wurth Elektronik to Enhance Its Online Design Environment for Power-Supply Applications
21 Mars 2017 - 3:01PM
- ST's eDesignSuite adds features of Wurth Elektronik Smart
Transformer Selector, facilitating new product designs with ST
chips
- Solves common challenge historically overcome by ordering
custom parts, saving bill-of-materials costs and turnaround
time
Geneva, March 21, 2017 - STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM),
a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum
of electronics applications, is extending the focus of its
eDesignSuite online design environment with the addition of
complementing components from Wurth Elektronik, a major
transformer[1] manufacturer, to help customers complete their new
projects more quickly and cost-effectively.
More and more electronic product design is done online using
manufacturer-published tools that are often free to use and provide
templates to jump-start circuit design, product selectors,
simulators to help evaluate performance, and access to technical
support and component purchasing. ST's eDesignSuite can help
accelerate design of many circuits and systems including
Switched-Mode Power Supplies (SMPS), LED lighting, filters, motor
drives, and others.
ST has now linked its eDesignSuite with the web-based Smart
Transformer Selector published by Wurth Elektronik, enabling
power-supply designers to automate selection of a suitable
off-the-shelf transformer while still working in the eDesignSuite
environment. Other online design tools generate the transformer
specification, and leave the designer to figure out the best way to
satisfy it: often by ordering a custom component - which can add
cost and turnaround time to the project -- rather than searching
manually through complex transformer specification sheets.
"ST has a strong commitment to continuously improve the tools
available to its customers to make their system design easier and
faster. Our initiative with Wurth Elektronik now solves the final
part of the power-design process, enabling engineers to get a
prototype up and running on the bench in a couple of days, instead
of waiting several days or weeks to procure a custom transformer,"
said Alessandro Cremonesi, Group Vice President, General Manager,
Central Labs, STMicroelectronics. "This new feature introduced in
eDesignSuite is setting the pace for online tools, by allowing
users to co-design efficiently and cost-effectively the full bill
of materials of the final product."
Dean Huumala, Product Marketing & Development Manager for
Wurth Elektronik added, "Smart Transformer Selector (STS) helps
designers search our portfolio to find the right transformer
quickly and efficiently. Bringing STS together with ST's
eDesignSuite now enables our mutual customers to complete their
bill of materials with transformers that have already been
designed, tested, released to production, and stocked both at us
and our catalog distribution partners."
eDesignSuite can be accessed free of charge by visiting
www.st.com/eDesignSuite and clicking "Start Design".
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[1] Transformer: the major non-semiconductor component in power
supplies and converters, essential for AC-voltage conversion and/or
safety isolation.
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