Tool/software: WEBENCH® Design Tools
Advanced Compensation Designer
The new HTML tool provides an alert when phase margin goes below specified limit and allows you to perform a simple one-click re-compensation design. Full suite of features including specifying Phase margin, Crossover frequency and comparing multiple compensation options is no longer supported in the new tool.
Well that's brilliant. One-click tool may be fine for Amazon to make extra money from mis-clicks but it's not a great match for a highly specialized tool. This nifty feature saved me hours, days and weeks of design time by making it downright trivial to adjust the feedback loop of various topologies on the fly. Converting that process to using e.g. octave / gnuplot is not easy, althought it does promote the ability to actually do things the hard way. I haven't even thought about modelling feedback loops the hard way for years.
