Cadence CADENCE PSPICE A-D - TECH BRIEF Manual

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    T e c h b r ie f cadence pspice a/d & pspice advanced analysis advanced circuit simulation and analysis for analog and mixed-signal circuits cadence ® pspice ® simulation technology combines industry-leading, native analog and mixed-signal engines to deliver a complete circuit simulation and verific...

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    Www.Cadence.Com 2 figure 1: cadence pspice provides a complete circuit simulation and analysis environment dealing with the implications of these issues can be expensive for a manufacturer. When a product is released without a thorough tolerance analysis the manufacturer doesn’t really know how the ...

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    Cadence pspice a/d & pspice advanced analysis 3 • simulate complex mixed-signal designs, containing both analog and digital parts to supporting models like igbts, pulse width modulators, dacs and adcs it also simplifies viewing of simulation results—both analog and digital—by having a single display...

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    Www.Cadence.Com 4 pspice product / technical features design entry and editing • use the advanced capabilities of orcad capture schematic or capture cis, the world’s most popular schematic entry system, to enter your designs • select from a library of over 20,000 parts for simulation, or choose from...

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    Cadence pspice a/d & pspice advanced analysis 5 mixed analog / digital simulation • pspice automatically recognizes a-to-d and d-to-a connections, and properly processes them by inserting interface sub-circuits and power supplies • integrated analog and event-driven digital simulation engines improv...

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    Www.Cadence.Com 6 probe windows • choose from an expanded set of mathematical functions to apply to simulation output variables • view simulation results in multiple waveform windows • select waveforms by name or by marking a net, pin, or part in the schematic • utilize cross-probing markers once an...

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    Cadence pspice a/d & pspice advanced analysis 7 model library • select from more than 20,000 analog and mixed-signal models of industry devices • more than 4,500 parameterized models for bjts, jfets, mosfets, igbts, scrs, magnetic cores and toroids, power diodes and bridges, operational amplifiers, ...

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    Www.Cadence.Com 8 advanced analysis product / technical features advanced analysis includes: • sensitivity: identifies critical circuit components • optimizer: optimizes key circuit components • monte carlo: analyzes statistical circuit behavior and yield • smoke: detects component stress • parametr...

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    Cadence pspice a/d & pspice advanced analysis 9 • displaying results in a probability density histogram • displaying results in a cumulative distribution graph figure 4: monte carlo predicts the behavior of a circuit statistically when part values are varied within their tolerance range smoke smoke ...

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    Www.Cadence.Com 10 use smoke to: • identify components exceeding manufacturers’ limits • breakdown voltage across device terminals • maximum current limits • power dissipation for each component • secondary breakdown limits • junction temperatures parametric plotter the parametric plotter enables sw...

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    © 2010 cadence design systems, inc. All rights reserved. Cadence, the cadence logo, allegro, orcad, and pspice are registered trademarks and of cadence design systems, inc. 21202 01/10 km/dm/pdf figure 6: slps enables designers of electro-mechanical systems—such as control blocks, sensors, and power...