Linear Technology DC1811A Demo Manual page 6

DEMO MANUAL DC1811A
LTpowerPlay SOFTWARE GUI
LTpowerPlay is a powerful Windows-based development
environment that supports Linear Technology power sys-
tem management ICs, including the LTM4676, LTC3880,
LTC3883, LTC2974 and LTC2978. 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 mul-
tichip 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
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issues when bringing up rails. LTpowerPlay utilizes the
DC1613A USB-to-SMBus controller to communicate with
one of many potential targets, including the LTM4676, the
LTC3880 and the LTC3883's demo system, or a customer
board. The software also provides an automatic update
feature to keep the soft-ware current with the latest set
of device drivers and documentation. The LTpowerPlay
software can be downloaded from:
http://www.linear.com/ltpowerplay
To access technical support documents for LTC Digital
Power Products visit Help. View online help on the
LTpowerPlay menu.
Figure 12. LTpowerPlay Main Interface
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