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Overview
SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuits Emphasis) is an analog circuit simulator developed at the University of California, Berkeley as a part of the CANCER (Computer Analysis of Nonlinear Circuits, Excluding Radiation) program. Throughout the past 50 years various companies have developed a number of different variants of SPICE, including HSPICE and PSPICE. SPICE defines a circuit in the form of a netlist and uses parameters to emulate circuit behavior. The netlist describes the components in the circuit and how they are connected. SPICE can simulate DC operating point, AC response, transient response, and other useful simulations.
Table of Contents
1. Why Use This Tutorial for Transiting from PSPICE to Multisim? 2. 1.0 PSPICE to Multisim Tutorial: Placing Resistor and Capacitors 3. 2.0 PSPICE to Multisim Tutorial: Adding Power Components 4. 3.0 PSPICE to Multisim Tutorial: Wiring Components 5. 4.0 PSPICE to Multisim Tutorial: Setting Up a Simulation 6. 5.0 PSPICE to Multisim Tutorial: Running a Simulation 7. 6.0 PSPICE to Multisim Tutorial: Conclusion
Multisim
If this is the first time you are using Multisim, then you will quickly see that it is similarly a schematic capture and simulation environment, however what are traditionally multistep or difficult processes have been simplified to make simulation easier. If you still need to download the Multisim environment to complete this tutorial, you can do so from this link .
2. 1.0 PSPICE to Multisim Tutorial: Placing Resistor and Capacitors 1.1 Opening the Software
In PSPICE, you will have traditionally opened the Schematics application via the following step (Programs >>PSPICE Student >> Schematics), prior to simulating the design. To open Multisim, you must access Start >> All Programs >> National Instruments >> Circuit Design Suite 11.0 >> Multisim 11.0.
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Figure 3. Placing a resistor 1. Select Place >> Component. 2. In the Select a Component dialog box, please set the interface to the following settings circled in red. You have now selected the Basic group and the Capacitor family (figure 4). 3. In the "Component Field" type the value of the capacitor in this case 0.08u - as in the blue field.
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3. 2.0 PSPICE to Multisim Tutorial: Adding Power Components 2.1 Adding Voltage Sources and Ground
In PSPICE, you now return to the Use Get New Part and search AC voltage sources, which are denoted as VAC. You will need to search out a parameter called ACMAG, which is the AC Magnitude. Place the part. Next search for a ground symbol called GND_EARTH. To place the sources in Multisim: 1. Select Place >> Component. 2. In the Select a Component dialog box, follow these dialog setup directions: Select the Sources group and the SIGNAL_VOLTAGE_SOURCES family. 3. In the "Component Field" select AC_VOLTAGE, and place in your schematic. It is pre-configured to 1V. 4. Select Place >> Component. 5. In the Select a Component dialog box, follow these dialog setup directions: Select the Sources group and the POWER_SOURCES family. 6. In the Component Field select GROUND, and place in your schematic. 7. Your design should look like Figure 6.
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1. Select Simulate >> Analyses >> AC Analysis You will have now opened the AC Analysis dialog box. 2. Set the Start frequency (FSTART) to 10 3. Set the Stop frequency (FSTOP) to 1 and the scale to MHz 4. Set the Number of points per decade to 101 5. Set the Vertical Scale to Decibel
1. To find the -3db point, you first need to select your cursors. You can do so by first clicking on the cursor item in your toolbar. The cursors will appear at the top of your Y-axis (in the red box of Figure 10)
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1. Right-click on the green cursor arrow on your Y-axis 2. Select Set Y_Value => 3. In the Value field type -3 4. Click on OK. The cursor has found your -3dB point (Figure 11).
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