A glow plug is a pencil-shaped piece of metal with a heating element at the tip. Despite its simple design and electronic content, it plays a fundamental role in diesel injection systems by igniting the fuel even when the engine is insufficiently hot for normal operation, thus reducing the cranking time to start the engine.
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eDesignSuite is a comprehensive set of easy-to-use design-aid utilities ready to help you streamline the system development process with a wide range of ST products.
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Power Management Design Center
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Supports long mission profiles Provides power loss and temperature graphs Helps define heatsink thermal properties 
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Supports long mission profiles Provides power loss and temperature graphs Helps define heatsink thermal properties Twister Sim
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Handles AC-DC and DC-DC design in common topologies Displays interactive and annotated schematic Provides current/voltage graphs, Bode plots, efficiency curves and power-loss data 
Provides a step-by-step optimized design of power section and control loop Generates the STM32Cube embedded software package for custom applications and allows firmware project generation, compatible with multiple STM32 IDEs 
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Power Supply Design Tool
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Provides a step-by-step optimized design of power section and control loop Generates the STM32Cube embedded software package for custom applications and allows firmware project generation, compatible with multiple STM32 IDEs Power Tree Designer
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