Using LTSpice

Lab #11
ECE 211
Thierry Crocquet
4/14/13











Objective: To understand the basic concepts of LTSpice

Procedures: First I picked 10 resistors of the following values: 1k, 1.6k, 2.2k, 2.7k, 3.6k, 4.7k, 6.2k, 7.5k,
9.1k, and 10k.
Next I built the physical circuit based off of the following diagram:

I measured the voltage drops across each of the resistors which gave me the following results:

R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10
1.85V 3.02V 1.17V 5.95V 1.17V 1.46V 1.45V 4.5V 7.12V 2.16V

Next I opened LTSpice and drew the previous circuit in it. After running it, LTSpice calculated node
voltages which are labeled on the diagram above. By finding voltage drops across resistors, I found that
LTSpice produced numbers very close to my own. LTSpice gave the following simulated voltages and I
calculated the error percentage between the two results:

R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10
1.87V 3.06V 1.19V 5.94V 1.19V 1.56V 1.56V 4.38V 7.13V 2.13V
1.07% 1.31% 1.68% 0.17% 1.68% 6.4% 7.05% 2.74% 0.14% 1.41%

Error percentage formula: |measured-calculated|/calculated * 100%
If I tried to solve this circuit by hand, I would use nodal and there would be 10 equations.
In experiment 2, I drew the following circuit in LTSpice:

The given values for Vo1 and Vo2 were -10V and 10V respectively.
The value of the overall voltage gain A_v is 10V and the purpose of the right op amp is to invert the
polarity.
I could not find the independent voltage source in LTSpice and therefore could not continue the
experiment and I did not email you to ask for help.