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PSPICE A/D
PSPICE ADVANCED ANALYSIS

PSpice®, an OrCAD® family product from Cadence®, provides industry-standard

solutions ideal for engineers who require accurate analog and mixed-signal

simulations. PSpice A/D is a full-featured, native mixed-signal simulator.

The robust PSpice Advanced Analysis (AA) tools are used in conjunction with

PSpice A/D to improve designs.

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PSPICE A/D
Specify Constrained by increased design
I/O buffer I/O buffer complexity and shorter design cycles,
IP design IC design engineers increasingly rely on
simulation results before committing
designs to hardware. PSpice A/D
Figure 1: The affordable, high-performance OrCAD product line is easily scalable provides a complete simulation
with the full complement of Cadence Allegro PCB design solutions environment for complex designs
that contain both analog and digital
parts. An interactive, easy-to-use
graphical user interface provides
complete control over the design
process. Availability of resources such as
models from many vendors, built-in
mathematical functions, and behavioral
 modeling techniques make the design
process more efficient. PSpice A/D is
tightly integrated with OrCAD Capture
and OrCAD Capture CIS.
BENEFITS
• Improve speed without loss of
accuracy via integrated analog and
event-driven digital simulations
• Explore circuit behavior using basic
DC, AC, noise, and transient analysis
• Select from a library of more than
18,000 analog and mixed-signal
models
• Automatically identify analog and
digital signals and apply A-to-D and
D-to-A interfaces
• Explore design relationships with
“what if” scenarios before committing
to hardware (PSpice AA)
• Maximize circuit performance
automatically (PSpice AA)
• Identify stressed components
(PSpice AA)
FEATURES
DESIGN ENTRY AND EDITING
Users can enter designs with OrCAD
Capture or OrCAD Capture CIS, and
they can select from a library of over
18,000 simulation models or choose
from the OrCAD Capture or CIS library.
Allegro Design Entry HDL is fully
integrated with PSpice, including one-
button simulation and cross-probing.
STIMULUS CREATION
Designers can access built-in functions
that can be described parametrically
or draw piecewise linear (PWL) signals
freehand with the mouse to create
any shape stimulus.
CIRCUIT SIMULATION
Users can easily set up and run
simulations and cross-probe simulation
results from OrCAD Capture/OrCAD
Capture CIS. Support for multiple
simulation profiles enables users to
recall and run different simulations
on the same schematic. Simulation
bias results can be viewed directly on
the schematic including node voltages,
device power calculations, and pin
and subcircuit current.
MIXED ANALOG/DIGITAL SIMULATION
Integrated analog and event-driven
digital simulations improve speed
without loss of accuracy. A single
graphical waveform analyzer displays
mixed analog and digital simulation
results on the same time axis. Digital
functions support five logic levels and
64 strengths, load-dependent delays,
and hazard/race checking. PSpice A/D
also features propagation modeling
for digital gates and constraint
checking (i.e., set up and hold timing).
ANALOG ANALYSIS
Designers can explore circuit behavior
using DC, AC, noise, transient,
parameter sweeps, Monte Carlo,
and DC sensitivity analysis. PSpice
includes an interactive simulation
controller and two simulation solvers.
(see Figure 2).
GRAPHICAL RESULTS
AND DATA DISPLAY
Probe windows allow users to choose
from an expanded set of mathematical
functions to apply to simulation output
variables. They can create plot window
templates and use them to easily make
complex measurements by simply
placing markers on desired pins, nets,
and parts in the schematic. They can
also measure the performance
characteristics of a circuit using built-in
measurement functions or create
custom measurements. For data display,
it allows plotting both real and
complex functions of circuit voltage,
current, and power consumption
including Bodé plots for gain and
phase margin and derivatives for
small-signal characteristics.
Figure 2: PSpice provides a complete sim-
ulation environment including simulation,
waveform analysis with cross-probing, and
bias results display on the schematic
MODELS
PSpice includes a large variety of
accurate internal models—most of
which include temperature effects—
that add flexibility to simulations.
Shipped models include R, L, C, and
bipolar transistors plus:
• Built-in IGBTs
• Seven MOSFET models, including
industry standard BSIM3v3.2 and the
new EKV 2.6 model
• Five GaAsFET models, including
Parker-Skellern and TriQuint TOM-2,
TOM-3 models
• Nonlinear magnetic models complete
with saturation and hysteresis
• Transmission line models that
incorporate delay, reflection, loss,
dispersion, and crosstalk
• Digital primitives, including
bi-directional transfer gates with
analog I/O models
• Two battery models are included
which allow accurate simulation of
the discharge cycle and operating
conditions
A Device Equations Developer’s Kit
(DEDK) allows implementation of new
internal model equations that can be
used with PSpice.
MODEL LIBRARY
Users can select from more than
18,000 analog and mixed-signal
models of devices made in North
America, Japan, and Europe. Also
included are more than 4,500
parameterized models for BJTs,
JFETs, MOSFETs, IGBTs, SCRs, magnetic
cores and toroids, power diodes and
bridges, operational amplifiers,
optocouplers, regulators, PWM
controllers, multipliers, timers,
and sample-and-holds.
PSPICE MODEL EDITOR
PSpice makes it easy to extract a
model of a supported device type
simply by entering the required
data from the device’s datasheet.
BEHAVIORAL MODELING
Functional blocks are described using
mathematical expressions and
functions. Designers can leverage a
full set of mathematical operators,
nonlinear functions, and filters. Users
can also define circuit behavior in the
time or frequency domain, by formula
(including Laplace transforms), or by
look-up tables. Error and warning
messages can be specified in different
conditions. Users can easily select
parameters, which have been passed
to subcircuits in a hierarchy and insert
them into transfer functions. New
behavioral capabilities include
mathematical functions like in(x),
exp(x), and sqrt(x).
MAGNETIC PARTS EDITOR
The Magnetic Parts Editor helps
designers overcome the issues involved
in designing transformers manually.
Users can design magnetic trans-
formers and DC inductors; generate
simulation models for transformers
and inductors that can then be used
in PSpice simulatable circuits; and
generate data required for manufac-
turing the transformers or inductors.
The Manufacturer Report that is
generated by MagDesigner after the
completion of the design process
contains the complete data required
by a vendor to develop the
transformer for commercial use.
ENCRYPTION
The Encryption feature allows models
to be encrypted using a 56-bit DES
algorithm.
PSPICE INTEGRATION WITH
MATLAB/SIMULINK
Simulink/PSpice integration lets
designers of electro-mechanical
systems—such as control blocks,
sensors, and power converters—
perform integrated system and
circuit simulation.
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PSPICE ADVANCED ANALYSIS
PSpice Advanced Analysis incorporates
four important capabilities—sensitivity
analysis, optimization, Smoke (stress
analysis), and Monte Carlo (yield
analysis). Used in conjunction with
PSpice A/D, these capabilities enable
engineers to create virtual prototypes
of designs and maximize circuit perfor-
mance automatically. Measurements
across multiple simulation profiles can
be handled in one go.
Figure 3: Smoke compares simulated
SENSITIVITY values with manufacturers’ limits to
highlight devices operating outside
Sensitivity identifies which component safe operating ranges
parameters are critical to the goals of a
circuit’s performance by examining how
each component affects circuit behavior MONTE CARLO
by itself and in comparison to the other Monte Carlo predicts the behavior of
components. Designers use Sensitivity a circuit statistically when part values
to identify sensitive components and are varied within their tolerance
export them to the Optimizer to fine- range. Monte Carlo also calculates
tune circuit behavior. yield, which can be used for mass
manufacturing predictions. Designers
OPTIMIZER use Monte Carlo for calculating
The Optimizer analyzes analog circuits yield based on your specifications,
and systems, fine-tuning designs faster calculating statistical data, displaying
than trial-and-error bench testing. It results in a probability density
helps find the best component values histogram, and displaying results
to meet performance goals and in a cumulative distribution graph.
constraints. Designer can use the
Optimizer to improve design PARAMETRIC PLOTTER
performance, update designs to meet Once a circuit is created and
new specifications, optimize simulated, the Parametric Plotter
behavioral models for top-down is used for sweeping multiple
design and model generation, and parameters. Any number of design
tune a circuit to match known results and model parameters (in any
in the form of measurements or combination) can be swept and
curves. The Optimizer includes four results viewed in PPlot/Probe in
engine types: Least Squares Quadratic tabular or plot form. Users employ
(LSQ); Modified LSQ; Random; and the Parametric Plotter for allowing
Discrete. device/model parameters to be
swept, displaying sweep results
SMOKE in spreadsheet format, allotting
Smoke warns of stressed components measurement results in Probe UI,
due to power dissipation, increases and performing post-analysis
in junction temperature, secondary measurement evaluations.
breakdowns, or violations of
voltage/current limits. Over time, these
components can cause circuit failure.
Designers use Smoke to compare circuit
simulation results to a component’s
safe operating limits. If limits are
exceeded, Smoke identifies the
problem parameters. It can also be
used for creating, modifying, and
configuring derate files for use with
Smoke analysis (see Figure 3).
 PSPICE A/D AVAILABLE IN PSICE ADVANCED ANALYSIS OPTIONS

UNISON SUITES
Sensitivity Optimizer Monte Carlo Smoke Parametric Plotter
PSpice A/D is also available as part
of the OrCAD Unison product suites: PSpice Advanced Optimizer X X X
OrCAD Unison EE, and OrCAD
PSpice Smoke X
Unison Ultra.
PSpice Advanced Analysis X X X X X
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
• Pentium 4 (32-bit) equivalent or faster Figure 4: PSice Advanced Analysis options
• Windows XP Professional, Windows XP
Home Edition, Windows 2000 (SP4),
or Windows Server 2003
• Minimum 256MB RAM (512MB
recommended)
• 300MB swap space (or more)
• CD-ROM drive
• 32,768 color Windows display with
minimum 1024 x 768 (1280 x 1024
recommended)

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