ABSTRACT
Electronic circuit design requires accurate methods of evaluating circuit performance. Because of the enormous complexity of modern integrated circuits, computer-aided circuit analysis is essential and can provide information about circuit performance that is almost impossible to obtain with laboratory prototype measurements. Simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis (SPICE) can perform analyses on various aspects of electronic circuits, such as the operating (or quiescent) points of transistors, time-domain response, small-signal frequency response, and so on. PSpice is a member of the SPICE family of circuit simulators, all of which originate from the SPICE2 circuit simulator, whose development spans a period of about 30 years. The commercially supported versions of SPICE2 can be classified into two types: mainframe versions and PC-based versions. PSpice allows various types of analysis. Each analysis is invoked by including its command statement.
