The PSpice Workshop
Course Description:
The purpose of this course is to introduce PSpice (aka Allegro AMS/Design Entry) to
first-time users and to refresh seasoned PSpice users to the wide
variety of analysis capabilities in the PSpice (Allegro AMS) simulator.
This 3-day course assumes the student has no prior knowledge of the PSpice
circuit simulator and Capture schematic capture program. Everything necessary
to fully build, run, analyze, design, and test circuits is presented.
Students should leave the course with a good understanding of how
to apply PSpice to typical design and analysis problems.
Course Objectives:
- Learn to use OrCAD Capture (Allegro Design Entry) schematic capture
- Learn to use PSpice (Allegro AMS) to simulate, analyze, and test circuit behavior
- Learn to run DC bias, DC Sweep, AC Sweep, and Transient Analysis in PSpice
- Learn to import models from the internet into PSpice
- Learn to create your own models in PSpice
- Learn to run Monte Carlo and Worst Case analysis in PSpice
- Learn to run Parameteric Sweeps in PSpice
- Learn to run and create Goal Functions/Measurements in PSpice
- Learn to run Performance Analysis in PSpice
Course Outline:
PSpice Overview
OrCAD Capture (aka Allegro Design Entry)
PSpice (aka Allegro AMS 210)
Probe
Model Editor
Circuit Schematics
Components
Parts Browser
Sources
Passive Components
Active Components
Wires & Buses
Making Connections
Ground
Schematic Rules
DC Path to Ground
Voltage Source Loops
Inductor Cutsets
Analysis types
DC Operating Point
Displaying the Bias Information
DC Sweep
AC Frequency Sweep
Transient (Time) Sweep
Modeling with PSpice
Hierarchical Schematics
User-Defined Symbols
Importing Models from a Vendor
Importing Models from the Web
Making Models with the Model Editor
Model Parameters
Regions of Operation
Entering Datasheet Information
Displaying Model Characteristics
Optimizing Model Characteristics
Analog Behavioral Models
Functional Block Models
Table Model
Laplace Model
Frequency Table Model
Using Probe
Cursor Functions
Saving Displays
Command Macros
Mixed Analog and Digital Simulation
Digital Components
AtoD and DtoA Converters
Parametric Sweep Analysis
Global Parameters and Variables
Equations with Parameters
Parameter Sweeps over Temperature
Monte Carlo Analysis
Component Tolerances
Model Tolerances
Setting Limits
Analyzing the Output
Worst-Case Analysis
Toleranced Components
Worst-Case Conditions
Sensitivity Analysis
Worst-Case Results
Making Measurements in PSpice
Measurement/Goal Functions
Search Commands
Displaying the Measured Performance
Performance Analysis
Circuit Optimization
Defining Circuit Parameters
Defining Performance Goals
Selecting Component Tolerances
Using the Optimized Result