Scribd
Upload
223 views5 pages

OrCAD PSPICE Transient Analysis Guide

This document provides a tutorial on performing transient analysis simulations in OrCAD PSPICE. It demonstrates how to build a simple RC circuit, add a voltage pulse source, and set the relevant parameters for the source including voltage levels, delay, rise/fall times, and period. It also explains how to set the simulation run time and mark points to be plotted. Running the transient analysis produces plots of the voltages at the marked points over time, showing the circuit's response to the pulse input.

Uploaded by

Ravi Raj
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
223 views5 pages

OrCAD PSPICE Transient Analysis Guide

This document provides a tutorial on performing transient analysis simulations in OrCAD PSPICE. It demonstrates how to build a simple RC circuit, add a voltage pulse source, and set the relevant parameters for the source including voltage levels, delay, rise/fall times, and period. It also explains how to set the simulation run time and mark points to be plotted. Running the transient analysis produces plots of the voltages at the marked points over time, showing the circuit's response to the pulse input.

Uploaded by

Ravi Raj
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd

OrCAD PSPICE Tutorial: Transient Analysis In this tutorial a transient analysis using OrCAD PSPICE is demonstrated.

It is assumed you have done the previous tutorial on bias point calculations. Start by creating a new project as in the previous tutorial and building the following circuit:

Reminders: Your ground symbols must be renamed 0 (zero) You must add the analog and source libraries after selecting place -> part R and C are in the analog library. You must double-click on the value you want changed to set the resistance and capacitance values.

Once you have this built, you are ready to add a voltage source. In OrCAD, there are different voltage sources for different functions. (Some CAD systems have a single, programmable voltage source instead.) For now, well be using the VPULSE source:

Heres what the seven variables listed in the lower right of the figure above mean: V1: The low voltage value V2: The high voltage value TD: Time Delay. The source will delay for this long before starting, in seconds. TR: Rise Time. The source will take this long to go from V1 to V2, in seconds. TF: Fall time. The source will take this long to go from V2 to V1, in seconds. PW: Pulse Width. This is how long the pulse will be, in seconds. PER: Period. This is the overall period of the waveform, in seconds.

In simulation, this voltage source will start at voltage V1, wait for TD seconds, spend TR seconds changing to V2, spend PW seconds at V2, then TF seconds down to V1, and wait until a total of PER seconds have elapsed before repeating this cycle.

Since the RC circuit weve built has a time constant of R * C = 1milisecond, we will set up our voltage source to switch once every five time constants or 5miliseconds, and switch much faster than that:

The above settings on the voltage source will cause it to generate a square wave with period 10miliseconds. (Note! 10m is read as 10*10^-3 by SPICE, even if you capitalize it. To get SPICE to read 10^6 you need to type out meg.) Next well set up the simulator to plot the waveforms generated by this circuit. First, as we did in the previous tutorial, go to PSPICE -> New Simulation Profile

This time select Time Domain (Transient) as your Analysis Type and enter 20ms as the total run time. This will give us two periods of the square wave generated by the voltage source. Click OK. Before we can simulate, well need to mark some points on the circuit to be plotted in the analysis with the Voltage/Level Marker:

Click on the V marker and then on these two points on the circuit:

This will tell the simulator to generate plots of the voltages at these two locations. Now you can select PSpice -> run to activate the simulation. On the computers in the lab this seems to pop up in a minimized window down at the bottom of the screen:

Click that icon for your plots:

This concludes the Transient Simulation tutorial.

You might also like