Solutions Search - LTpowerPlay

LTpowerPlay is a powerful, Windows-based development environment supporting Linear Technology's Digital Power System Management (PSM) products, including PMBus Power System Managers (such as LTC2974, LTC2977) and DC/DC Power Converters with PSM (LTC3880, LTC3883, LTM4676). The software supports a variety of different tasks. You can use LTpowerPlay to evaluate Linear Technology ICs by connecting to a demo board system. LTpowerPlay can also be used in an offline mode (with no hardware present) in order to build a multi-chip configuration file that can be saved and reloaded at a later time. LTpowerPlay provides unprecedented diagnostic and debug features. It becomes a valuable diagnostic tool during board bring-up to program or tweak the power management scheme in a system or to diagnose power issues when bringing up rails. LTpowerPlay utilizes the DC1613 USB-to-I2C/SMBus/PMBus controller to communicate with one of many potential targets, including the DC1962 evaluation board, or a customer target system. The software also provides an automatic update feature to keep the software current with the latest set of device drivers and documentation. To access technical support documents for PSM products visit the Help menu in LTpowerPlay.

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LTpowerPlay Software-Based Power Supply Configuration and Debug Tool

Mar 8th 2016
Linear Technology’s Power System Management (PSM) devices add digital PMBus/SMBus/I2C interface based control, telemetry and black-box fault recording to analog DC/DC power converters, providing high level integration, accuracy and increased reliability to your power system. The associated LTpowerPlay® GUI provides ...

LT Programming Hex File Format Documentation -- In Circuit Programming

Mar 26th 2015
Purpose of Document The purpose of this document is to clearly articulate the structure of the LT Programming Hex file in such a way that test engineers can build infrastructure to parse these files and execute programming logic to successfully program one or more LT Digital Power Product devices in cicruit, during test, or ...

Using LTpowerPlay to Manage the LTC2978

Leo Chen - Applications Engineer Sep 17th 2010
The LTC2978 features enable power supply supervision, monitoring, sequencing and trimming with unmatched accuracy. These features combined with our easy to use GUI, assist the power supply designer in defining and implementing complex power management schemes in a fraction of the time previously possible. Fault logging capability ...