A quick guide to using pspice 9 florida institute of. Give the junction between the r and c the alias of vout using the net alias tool as shown below. In order to simulate a circuit, pspice needs a ground node attached to it. Historically this was a separate application but it is now integrated with pspice. It is likely that the old url for this pspice tutorial will disappear on august 31, 2015. Click ok in the place part dialog box and then click once on the schematic screen to insert a resistor. Pspice ad digital simulation condition messages 61.
Click create and the simulation settings menu will appear. Some libraries will appear, we need eval and source. Click the run pspice button and the pspice analysis results will appear as shown below. Pspice examples an executable that contains several example schematics. Introduction to pspice pspice is a computeraided simulation program that enables you to design a circuit and then simulate the design on a computer. Arnab chakraborty is a calcutta university alumnus with b. Create 1,000s of virtual prototypes to test for design failures, maximize circuit performance, and optimize for cost early in the design process all before building a. Savebias save bias point to file 75 usage examples 76. In one environment, you can do all of the following using pspice schematics. The tutorial starts under the assumption that the demo version of. Running pspice ad 63 to simulate the circuit from within capture 1 from the pspice menu, choose run. This simple, easytofollow guide to pspice is designed to be accessible to anyone with a familiarity of basic electrical topics. Spice is a program developed by the ee department at the university of california at berkeley for computer simulation of analog circuits.
Introduction to pspice using orcad for circuits and. Using a stepbystep approach, it explains everything needed to understand pspice and apply it in a creative way to the analysis of electric and electronic circuits and devices. Also pspice is a simulation program that models the behavior of a circuit. One of the more useful concepts in pspice is the use of subcircuits to group elements into clusters in order to replicate the clusters without having to reenter all the elements each time. Pspice ad simulates the circuit and calculates the bias point information. Pspice advanced analysis provides a unique set of analysis capabilities which enable design teams to take simulation to the next level. Input is a sinusoidal voltage with the peak value of 10v and the frequency of 1khz, i. The tutorial for ltspice is modified from this one, so if you found the layout of this one useful, you will probably find the ltspice tutorial easy to follow. Procedure experiment 2 introduction to pspice 3 of 8. The pspice advanced analysis simulation engines help maximize the parametric plotter enables sweeping of multiple param design performance, yield, costeffectiveness, and reliability.
If we need a graphical output, pspice can transfer its data to the probe program for graphing purposes. Pc simulation program with integrated circuits emphasis. Select pspice new simulation profile or click the new simulation profile icon on the toolbar. We want a very simple circuit with a 5v dc source and a. The second method is the schematic method now called capture. Orcad pcb flow tutorial describes the design cycle for an electronic design, starting with capturing the electronic circuit in orcad capture, simulating the design with pspice, through the pcb layout stages in orcad layout orcad pcb editor, and specctra, and finishing with the processing of the manufacturing output and maintaining the design through eco cycles. Place the ground symbol in the schematic and connect it to the circuit.
Introduction to begin, run the orcad capture program and create a new project by selecting file new project. For example, if we ask pspice its calculations for vmn and i and it said, 4. Capture, pspice, sourcelink online customer support, specctra, spectre, vampire. Pspice schematics is a schematic capture frontend program with a direct interface to pspice. Bias point the bias point analysis is the starting point for all analysis. Ltspice is more freely available than pspice, and it runs under wine on linux as well. Systems, nc in the nited states and other countries all others are the properties of their respective holders 35 41 sadmpdf. Give the junction between the source and the r the alias vin. Historically this wasaseparate application but it is now integrated with pspice. Orcadpspice manual izmir university of economics 3 b schematic editor a simple voltage divider fig. Store the new created circuits under schematics in c.
In the analysis we will find the id current and the vds voltage at the given values of vdd and vgs. Pspice is a generalpurpose circuit simulator capable of performing four main types of analysis. The material in this sheet is a basic start, but please feel free to. Probe probe 67 dc sweep and transient analysis output variables 68 multipleterminal devices 70 ac analysis 72 noise analysis 74. All three libraries can be installed at once by using the ctl key on. Pspice schematics is just one element in our total solution design flow. The method used to plot any voltage or current versus time in a second order circuit is the same as that used for a first order circuit. Pspice tutorial pspice is a software tool for spice simulation. Download pspice for free and get all the cadence pspice models.
We perform pspice schematics circuit simulation according to. A visual tutorial for schematics njit ece undergraduate. The focus of this tutorial is to illustrate the use of pspice to verify norton and thevenins theorem and. Pspice tutorial create a new project and select analog or mixed ad.
Thenn create a project using the analog or mixedsignal circuit wizard. And pspice is a product of the orcad corporation and the student version we are using is. As this is one of its main purposes, it is used extensively by electronic design engineers for building a circuit. Analyse its behaviour with probe, which can produce a range of plots. Pspice tutorial this tutorial is designed to show you how to use the pspice circuit simulation form micro slim with the schematic capture front end, schematics. Give a descriptive name to the type of simulation e. Electrical and computer engineering outline introduction installation prepare a circuit for simulation.
Basic screen there are three windows that are opened. Bias point, dc sweep, ac sweepnoise, and time domain transient. Be warned that there are multiple libraries providing the 0 symbol. Xiong this tutorial will guide you through the creation and analysis of a simple mosfet circuit in pspice schematic.
Do not click more than once on the schematic screen or you will have more than one. Pspice is now a component of the orcad product family. Pspice tutorial ltspice tutorial ltspice is another version of spice. Its purpose is not to equipt you with any expertise in spice but rather to make sure that the system and the set up are working.
Pspice tutorial for beginners ac full wave rectifier duration. On the next screen you have to choose which pspice part symbol library to load. First is the labor savings of replacing many lines of circuit. Introduction to orcad capture and pspice notes for. The circuit diagram below is what you will build in pspice. Choose an appropriate file ame and a directory to store all of your files. Pspice tutorial we will start with something really very basic. Start a command prompt and type acrodist at the command prompt, if the acrodist window does not open, and i suspest that it will not, you need to add the directory that contsins your acrodist. This tutorial will teach you all you need to know about pspice for ece 65.
It will help you solve some of the problems you are given in class. Select the source library before selecting the 0 symbol, then click ok. Introduction to pspice using orcad for circuits and electronics 3rd edition rashid, muhammad h. In its original form you tell spice what elements are in the circuit resistors, capacitors, etc. This class was explained the basis of circuit and pspice program in detail. Great listed sites have orcad pspice tutorial for beginners. Pspice is positive, then pspice will return a positive number. Pspice simulates the circuit, and calculates its electrical characteristics. Pspice is the most prominent commercial version of spice, initially developed by microsim 1984, but now owned by cadence design system. Note because waveform data is not calculated during a bias point analysis, you will not. After logging on, click the start button lower left hand corner, then successively select all programs, dept, ece, pspice student to get to the pspice menu. Click on add library a new window appears, choose the pspice directory. If the current value returned by pspice is positive, then current flows in at node m and out of node n.
A new window pop up with the pspice project type, select create a blank project and click ok. Page 79 configuring pspice schematics when autosave is enabled, pspice schematics creates a temporary file with the same name as the active working file, and a file name extension ending in for example. Follow the procedure to get to the place part dialog box again. This tutorial covers the use of orcad ee pspice software package, i.