PSpice Totally Explained

Everything about Pspice totally explained

PSpice is a SPICE analog circuit simulation software that runs on personal computers, hence the first letter "P" in its name. It was developed by MicroSim and used in electronic design automation. MicroSim was bought by OrCAD and now belongs to Cadence Design Systems. It is acronym for Personal Simulation Program of Integrated Circuit Emphasis.

History

PSpice is the first version of UC Berlekey SPICE available on a PC, having been released in January 1984 to run on the original IBM PC. This initial version ran from two 360KB floppy disks and later included a very capable waveform viewer and analyser program, Probe. Subsequent versions improved in performance and moved to DEC/VAX minicomputers, Sun workstations, the Apple Macintosh, and the Microsoft Windows platform.

Current implementation

solvers, auto-convergence and checkpoint restart, magnetic part editor and Tabrizi core model for non-linear cores.

PSpice products included in OrCAD 16.0

PSpice
PSpice A/D — a mixed-signal simulator, that provides a complete simulation environment for designs that contain both analog and digital electronic parts.
PSpice Smoke — a tool that performs a stress audit to verify that electrical components are operating within the manufacturers' safe operating limits or de-rated limits. The Smoke tool flags violations such as power dissipation, secondary breakdown limits, current/voltage and junction temperature limits.
PSpice Advanced Optimizer — a tool that automatically analyzes analog circuits and systems and fine-tunes them faster than trial-and-error bench testing. It helps find the best component values to meet performance goals and constraints. The Optimizer includes four engine types: Least Squares Quadratic (LSQ), Modified LSQ, Random and Discrete.
PSpice SLPS interface allows substitution of actual electronic blocks to Simulink environment, thus allowing for example co-simulation of electrical and mechanical systems.
PSpice Advanced Analysis incorporates four capabilities — sensitivity analysis, Monte Carlo (yield) analysis and the already mentioned Optimization and Smoke analyses.

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