Original author(s) Stable release v11 / December 2016 | Developer(s) DesignSoft Development status Active | |
Initial release January 1990; 27 years ago (1990-01) Operating system | ||
Toolkit for Interactive Network Analysis, more known by its acronym TINA, is a SPICE based electronics design and training software including analog, digital & mixed circuit simulation and PCB design available both installable and cloud-based versions.
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History
TINA was created and developed by DesignSoft. The first Windows version was released in 1993 as TINA 4.0 for analog, digital and mixed circuits. TINA 9.0 also includes microcontroller (MCU) simulation, RF network analysis, optimization and PCB design. TINA is currently at version 10 released in as of 2013. Since 2004, TINA-TI is a free limited version of TINA for the support of TI integrated circuits and applications licensed by Texas Instruments.
Versions
TINA is available for industry and educational use. TINA allows simulation, design, and real-time testing of HDL (VHDL, Verilog, Verilog-A, Verilog-AMS), MCU and mixed electronic circuits including SMPS, RF, communication and optoelectronic circuits as well. With the integrated and third party flowchart tools generation and debugging of MCU code is also possible both in digital and mixed circuit environment. TINA Design Suite includes an integrated layout module for designing multilayer PCB's with split power plane layers, auto-placement & auto-routing, rip-up and reroute, manual and "follow-me" trace placement, DRC, forward and back annotation, pin and gate swapping, keep-in and keep-out areas, copper pour, thermal relief, fan-out, 3D view of the PCB design, Gerber file and CNC (G-code) 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 Texas Instruments since 2004. TINACloud is the cloud based, multi-language, online version of TINA. 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 Infineon Technologies as the engine of Infineon Designer for online prototyping with A/D simulation.