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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 sweeping of multiple parameters once a simulated circuit has been
created. It also provides an efficient way to analyze sweep results, sweep any number of design and
model parameters (in any combinations), and view results in Parametric Plotter / Probe in tabular or
plot form.
Use Parametric Plotter to:
• Sweep component values, model parameters and design parameters
• Select sweep-type: Discrete, Log or Linear
• Do nested sweeps to explore solution space for multiple measurements
• Examine solution space as tabular view and sort the data within already sorted columns.
• Create and Display multiple plots to examine measurements as function of various parameters
INTEGRATION WITH MATLAB / SIMULINK
PSpice integration with The MathWorks’ MATLAB Simulink (SLPS) combines two industry-leading
simulation tools in a co-simulation environment. SLPS integration enables designers of electro-
mechanical systems—such as control blocks, sensors, and power converters—to perform integrated
system and circuit simulation. Generally, system design and circuit design are separate processes
that employ separate simulators. Because the simulators are not linked, there is no way for the
electrical engineer to plug the actual circuit data back into the system design. As a result, designers
don’t really know what influence the actual circuit module will have on the system and vice versa.
In contrast, SLPS gives the designer the ability to perform system-level simulations that include
realistic electrical PSpice models of actual components.