ROHM's Cutting-Edge Web Simulation Tool Capable of Complete circuit Verification for Power Devices and ICs

New tool enables easy verification of solution circuits using the SystemVision portfolio cloud environment from Mentor, a Siemens business

Kyoto, Japan and Santa Clara, CA, March 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ROHM today announced to start to provide with a web simulation tool, “ROHM Solution Simulator”, that allows designers of electronic circuits and systems in the automotive and industrial markets to simultaneously verify power devices and ICs on 44 different solution circuits.

Simulations are typically conducted before the prototype design phase in order to reduce development efforts not only in the automotive and industrial equipment markets. Even when designing electronic circuit boards, simulations are used to minimize the time and effort required for component selection as well as to identify potential or fundamental issues before actual equipment validation in order to significantly decrease man-hours during board prototyping and evaluation phases.

Until now, ROHM has provided a range of solutions that contribute to solving issues for a variety of user development flows, such as SPICE models that faithfully reproduce the electrical characteristics of products through simulation along with thermal design support for validating both heat generation phenomena and dissipation results using fluid analysis. This time, in addition to focusing on developing and supporting application circuits that maximize the characteristics of driver ICs and power devices designed to supply high power in the automotive and industrial equipment markets, ROHM offers the cutting-edge simulator, ROHM Solution Simulator, that allows users to perform complete circuit verification of power devices and ICs. Among these, validation of SiC devices and gate driver ICs for driving SiC ranks among the most advanced initiatives in the industry.

ROHM Solution Simulator is a new web-based electronic circuit simulation tool that can carry out a variety of simulations, from initial development that involves component selection and individual device verification to the system-level verification stage. This makes it possible to quickly and easily implement complete circuit verification of ROHM power devices (i.e. SiC) and ICs (e.g. driver and power supply ICs), in simulation circuits under close to actual conditions, significantly reducing application development efforts.