Optimizing Designs with SPICE-Based Simulation
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Overview
Evaluate and Improve the Behavior and Reliability of Your Designs
With the rapid increase in portable wireless communication devices, it’s important to be able to evaluate the behavior, reliability, and manufacturability of your designs. Cadence PSpice is a virtual SPICE simulation environment with the largest model library that allows you to prototype your designs using the industry-leading, integrated analog, mixed-signal, and advanced analysis engines to deliver a complete circuit simulation and verification solution. Easily analyze and refine both simple circuits and complex systems, as well as their components and parameters, before moving on to layout and fabrication.
Key Benefits
Simulate Your Circuits for Optimal Performance
Circuit Analysis and Optimization
Run multiple analyses, from bias point to electrical overstress, to gain insight into your circuit’s behavior. Fine-tune design parameters to maximize design performance, yield, cost-effectiveness, and reliability with advanced analysis tools.
Cross-Industry Compliant Certified
PSpice is exceedingly qualified for precision electronics, consumer or high-power industrial equipment, and high-reliability equipment and meets ISO 26262 compliance.
Extensive Component Library
Streamline your simulation process with access to a vast pre-configured built-in library of over 35,000 parametrized models, ranging from discretes to PWM controllers and BJTs to MOSFETs, from various IC vendors.
Electro-Mechanical Simulation
Perform system-level simulation powered by PSpice and MathWorks’ Simulink. The Cadence PSpice MATLAB Simulink Interface combines two industry-leading simulation tools to create an environment for electro-mechanical system simulation.
Features
Simulate and Analyze Over Multiple Conditions and Parameters
| Feature Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Transient Analysis | Time domain analysis Analyze the response of your circuit over a set time domain as it changes from one steady state condition to another. View graphs of voltage or current as a function of time. |
| Smoke Analysis | Ensure component reliability Ensure that all the components in your circuits are working within safe operating limits. Analyze how your components react to changes in voltage, current, power, and temperature. |
| Sensitivity Analysis | Identify critical components Identify which component parameters most affect the goals of your circuit's performance. By analyzing the behavior of components for your entire circuit, it is easy to evaluate yield versus cost tradeoffs, helping maximize cost-effectiveness. |
| Monte Carlo Analysis | Calculate manufacturing yield Predict the behavior of your circuits under different conditions to balance yield with cost. Advanced statistical analysis helps you evaluate whether tighter component tolerances will improve your design and circuit performance. |
| Optimizer | Optimize analog circuits Tune your circuits to meet your unique design requirements and performance goals. Easily find the best component or system values. |
| MATLAB Integration | Electro-mechanical co-simulation The seamless bi-directional integration between MathWorks MATLAB/Simulink and PSpice lets you easily simulate electrical circuits and mechanical, hydraulic, and thermal blocks in one unified environment, so you can emulate real-world applications. |
Solutions
Create Devices that Last a Lifetime
ECU and ECU-to-ECU simulations and system modeling
PSpice technology helps industry-leading automotive companies analyze their electronic circuits and improve design functionality and reliability.
Ultimate solution to help you innovate
Explore PSpice mixed-signal capabilities for internet of things (IoT) devices like sensors, communication devices, and actuators, and leverage the technology for full functionality testing.
Advanced, accurate simulation of signal designs
PSpice technology delivers inherent mixed-signal simulation capabilities along with OrCAD X and Allegro X tools, making power supply analysis simple.
Move to a Sustainable Future
PSpice helps optimize power and increase device reliability, which reduces raw material consumption and overall e-waste.
Start Your Free Trial Today
Access to PSpice is included in the OrCAD X free trial. During your trial period, you will have access to both OrCAD X and PSpice standard tools. Professional users can get access with a FREE 30-day trial, while students at academic institutions are eligible for a FREE six-month license with validation of current enrollment. Watch the How to Install OrCAD X video to learn more.
Your PSpice download will allow you to:
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Simulate virtual prototypes - Perform mixed-signal macro modeling with C/C++/SystemC extensions
- Access PSpice modeling applications
- Leverage advanced analysis tools of Sensitivity, Smoke, Monte Carlo, and Optimizer like no other spice simulator
- Import models from the web, use them in your design right away and simulate with PSpice
- Co-simulate electrical and mechanical systems with MathWorks MATLAB Simulink
Step 1
Click on the Free Trial button to open the shop.cadence.com page and click “Login to Try” in the bottom corner of the screen to begin.
Step 2
Select “Create a Professional Account,” enter the required details, verify your email address, and continue through the account creation process.
Step 3
You will receive an email from no-reply@cadence.com with a link to download the OrCAD X free trial and installation instructions. Be sure to look for more emails with OrCAD X information, including Getting Started materials, to get you designing in seven days!
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