The best and most in-depth PSpice® manual available, this text, written as a class demonstration with step-by-step screen captures, shows students how to use the Cadence®/OrCAD® version of the PSpice® circuit simulation program with the OrCAD Capture® front end. Focusing on a wide range of circuits that are studied throughout the engineering/engineering technology curriculum, this manual features a collection of examples that show how to create a circuit, how to run different analyses, and how to obtain the results from those analyses. To access examples go to this URL www.pearsoned.com/electronics .

• NEW - New sections—Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 7 have additional information.

  • Provides students with updated and more detailed material.

• NEW - Additional chapter—Chapter 10 covers project management with OrCAD Capture® CIS, such as creating bills of materials and maintaining a database of commonly used parts.

  • Shows students a wide variety of applications for the software.

• NEW - PSpice® mailing list—Used for notification of new libraries and for updated sections of the text.

  • Allows students to use this text as a permanent reference guide.

• Cadence®/OrCAD® version of PSpice®—Only book that covers this version.

  • Provides students with an excellent resource to cover this new software.

• Most in-depth PSpice® reference available—Covers the basic analyses such as AC/DC/Transient, as well as Temperature Sweeps, Monte Carlo, Parametric Sweep, Digital Analyses, and Modeling.

  • Offers students a variety of topics to use PSpice®.

• Permanent reference book—Designed for use by students for their entire educational career and beyond.

  • Equips students to use this program for their classes and in their careers.

• Organized presentation—Book presentation simulates class presentation of material.

  • Presents students with intermediate windows and specifies all mouse selections.

• Organization by analysis type—Guides user through an array of logically sequenced discussions, integrating a wide range of examples: from circuits covered in a first-semester circuit theory course to senior-level amplifier switching circuits.

  • Eases students into more advanced, complex topics, helping to minimize intimidation and increase motivation.

• Step-by-step screen captures—Leads through the software by displaying screen captures right alongside the narrative.

  • Provides students with an easy-to-follow format to allow for self-paced learning, and provides the visual support that today's learners need to fully grasp often abstract concepts and procedures.

• Both simple and advanced circuits—Uses a broad range of complexity to fully illustrate each analysis type.

  • Gives students a wide range of circuits and difficulty.

• Drawing, printing, and saving of schematics using OrCAD Capture®—Covered in Part I.

  • Allows beginning students to utilize the text.

• In-depth usage of the graphical processor Probe—Covered in Part II.

  • Allows beginning students to utilize the text.

• End-of-section exercises—Specifies a circuit and gives the simulation results, then asks students to use the software to obtain the same results.

  • Provides students with frequent opportunities to practice using the software.

• Parts libraries—Changed slightly from Cadence®'s distribution libraries.

  • Offers students consolidated libraries and adds new parts, making the program simpler to use.

• PSpice® software (OrCAD Lite 9.2)—Focuses on using PSpice® to verify calculations or intuition.

  • Gives students an electronic means of checking their work, reinforcing their overall understanding.

• Web-based parts database—Activeparts.com is featured for downloading parts from the Internet.

  • Helps students to maintain their own parts database.

• New sections—Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 7 have additional information.

  • Provides students with updated and more detailed material.

• Additional chapter—Chapter 10 covers project management with OrCAD Capture® CIS, such as creating bills of materials and maintaining a database of commonly used parts.

  • Shows students a wide variety of applications for the software.

• PSpice® mailing list—Used for notification of new libraries and for updated sections of the text.

  • Allows students to use this text as a permanent reference guide.

 1. Editing a Basic Schematic with OrCAD Capture.


 2. Introduction to Probe.


 3. DC Nodal Analysis.


 4. DC Sweep.


 5. AC Sweep.


 6. Transient Analysis.


 7. Creating and Modifying Models Using Capture.


 8. Digital Simulations.


 9. Monte Carlo Analyses.


10. Project Management with OrCAD Capture CIS.


Appendix A: Installing OrCAD Lite Version 9.2.


Appendix B: Scale Multipliers for PSpice and Capture.


Appendix C: Functions Available with Probe.


Appendix D: Schematic Errors.


Appendix E: Listing of Class.Lib Library.


Index.

PSPICE Simulation Titles  (Electronics & Electricity Technology)

This authoritative book shows students how to use the Pspice^® circuit simulation program with the schematic capture front end, Capture^®. It features an abundant collection of examples that demonstrate how to create a circuit, run different analyses, and obtain results from those analyses. Use this URL to access the examples www.pearsoned.com/electronics

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