As power electronics continue advancing toward higher switching frequencies, greater power densities, and more compact converter architectures, designing magnetic components has become one of the most challenging aspects of power converter development. Frenetic addresses this complexity with its Magnetic Simulator, an AI-powered design and simulation platform that enables engineers to rapidly design, analyse, and optimise custom transformers and inductors before physical prototyping, thereby accelerating development and reducing engineering iterations.
The Magnetic Simulator provides a comprehensive digital environment for developing custom magnetic components by allowing engineers to configure transformer and inductor topologies, select core geometries, magnetic materials, winding configurations, and air gaps, and simulate their performance under application-specific operating conditions. By combining proprietary analytical models with advanced simulation techniques, the platform enables rapid evaluation of magnetic designs while minimising reliance on lengthy finite-element simulations in the early stages of product development.
A key capability of the platform is its ability to predict critical magnetic performance parameters, including core losses, winding losses, leakage inductance, thermal behaviour, efficiency, and hot-spot temperatures. According to Frenetic, the Magnetic Simulator delivers up to 97% prediction accuracy, performs simulations up to 90% faster than conventional finite element method (FEM) workflows, and helps reduce design iteration cycles by up to 50%. These capabilities enable engineers to evaluate multiple design alternatives, optimize component performance, and validate designs before hardware prototypes are manufactured.
The simulator also streamlines engineering workflows through interactive design optimization, allowing users to modify key design parameters and immediately evaluate their impact on electrical and thermal performance. This rapid simulation capability helps engineers compare different magnetic materials, winding arrangements, and core configurations to optimize efficiency, power density, manufacturability, and thermal performance for specific converter requirements while reducing development time and prototyping costs.
Designed for modern power electronics, the Magnetic Simulator supports a broad range of applications, including DC-DC converters, flyback and LLC transformers, PFC inductors, Dual Active Bridge (DAB) converters, EV onboard chargers, industrial power supplies, renewable energy systems, aerospace, medical electronics, and automotive power conversion. By enabling accurate virtual validation of custom magnetic components across these applications, the platform helps engineers accelerate product development while improving overall converter performance and reliability.
By combining AI-assisted design, high-accuracy magnetic simulation, comprehensive loss analysis, thermal prediction, and rapid design optimization within a single platform, Frenetic's Magnetic Simulator enables engineers to develop custom magnetic components more efficiently while shortening time-to-market and improving the performance of next-generation power electronic systems.
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About Frenetic
Frenetic develops AI-powered software solutions for magnetic component and power electronics design. The company specializes in digital engineering tools that help designers create, simulate, and optimize transformers, inductors, and other magnetic components for automotive, industrial, renewable energy, aerospace, medical, and power conversion applications. Through its AI-driven simulation technologies, Frenetic supports faster product development, reduced prototyping, and improved magnetic design accuracy for next-generation power electronics.
