Scalable PCB Design Invest for the future with a PCB design solution that can provide the capabilities you need today with the ability to seamlessly grow as your designs requirements increase.The aim of this laboratory is to simulate the behaviour of a simple electrical circuit.

Most ‘professional’ software is so complicated that even experts make regular use of the help system. Please try this before asking a demonstrator for help. There is extensive online help for all these programs. The versions may be different but little has changed since version 9.0. In principle you can download the demo version from but it is nearly 700 MB and is utterly unreliable in my experience. There is a free version on a CD with Hambley’s textbook and we have a demo CD that may be copied. Unfortunately the licensing arrangements do not permit access from outwith the Rankine Building. OrCAD is available on networked Windows PCs in the department, with up to 30 users at any one time. The programs communicate using files called netlists but you should never need to look at them – everything happens transparently. The output is a set of files that can be sent to a manufacturer or the electronics workshop in the Rankine Building. PCB Editor is used to design printed circuit boards. You can analyse its behaviour in many ways and confirm that it performs as specified. (On the other hand, it is much faster to develop the outline of a circuit using pencil and paper.) PSpice simulates the captured circuit. It offers great flexibility compared with a traditional pencil and paper drawing, as design changes can be incorporated and errors corrected quickly and easily. Capture is used to drawn a circuit on the screen, known formally as schematic capture. Cadence OrCAD PCB Designer with PSpice comprises three main applications. 1 Introduction This document introduces you to a suite of computer programs that are used to design electronic circuits. There are examples of all four types of standard simulation and a selection of different plots. Davies SeptemAbstract This handout explains how to get started with Cadence OrCAD to draw a circuit (schematic capture) and simulate it using PSpice. Introduction to OrCAD Capture and PSpice Professor John H.

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