COMPLETE CIRCUIT SIMULATION AND VERIFICATION

OrCAD PSpice

Easily verify circuit behavior and optimize your designs with industry-leading, SPICE simulation.

Achieve Peak Circuit Performance

Easily simulate, analyze, and optimize your circuit functionality with the world’s most reliable SPICE simulator. PSpice delivers a complete circuit simulation and verification solution with native analog/mixed-signal analysis.

Integrated Simulation

EASY

Integrated Simulation

Analyze critical circuits with native analog and mixed-signal simulation engines directly from the schematic. Seamless integration with the schematic provides easy-to-understand results with color-coded graphical waveforms and probes as well as bias point information overlays.

Extensive Model Support

SEAMLESS

Extensive Model Support

Quickly define and simulate circuits with over 33,000 simulation-ready models from various IC vendors as well as pre-defined, configurable models for sources, switches, transformers, capacitors, inductors, and more. Enable rapid creation of simulation-ready models for common components and magnetic parts with datasheet-driven modeling wizards. Integrated C/C++ and SPICE simulation engines enable you to fully model mixed signal electronic devices at any level of abstraction directly from the schematic.

Simulation and Design Optimization

ACCURATE

Advanced Mixed-Signal Simulation and Design Optimization

Easily perform Time Domain (Transient), DC Sweep, AC Sweep, and Bias Point for comprehensive circuit analysis. Then seamlessly evaluate multiple design implementation options to improve yield, reduce design costs, increase circuit reliability, and fine-tune circuit behavior with the advanced analysis features in PSpice.

Waveform Analysis and Reporting

CONSISTENT

Waveform Analysis and Reporting

Delve into simulation results using best-in-class waveform viewing and analysis capabilities with automatic computation of measurements using built-in analog and mathematical functions. For comprehensive analysis, quickly transform results to analyze Bode Plots, Fourier Transforms, derivatives, and more.

UNMATCHED CIRCUIT VERIFICATION

Industry-Leading SPICE Simulation

Extensive Modeling

Analog Libraries | Digital Libraries | Configurable Models | Wizard-Driven Model Import

Circuit Simulation and Analysis

Analog | Digital/Mixed-Signal | Transient | Bias | DC/AC Sweep

Waveform Analysis

Advanced Circuit Analysis

Worst-Case Analysis | Monte Carlo Analysis | Parametric Sweep | Temperature Sweep | Frequency Response Analysis

Circuit Optimization

Component Stress | Component Tolerance | Optimization | Performance Analysis

Electro-Mechanical Simulation

MATLAB/Simulink Co-simulation | Device Model Interfaces

With OrCAD PSpice Designer, design problems are found much earlier, saving crucial time and money often spent in building and debugging ECU boards within system prototypes.”
—Santosh Birajdar, Senior Manager, Electrical and Electronics PV, Tata Motors

Beyond the Standard SPICE Simulation

Easily optimize your design with a wide variety of simulation tools and models available in PSpice. Create virtual prototypes to test for design failures, maximize circuit performance, and optimize for cost early in the design process all before building a single physical prototype.

Modeling and Libraries

Expansive Libraries

Amplifiers and Linear ICs
Analog Behavior Models
Data Converters
Discrete
Electro-Mechanical
Ideal Devices
Logic
Magnetics
Memory
OptoElectronics
Passives
Power Management
Programmable Devices
Simulator Command
Sources
Special Functions
Switches

Configurables Models

LEDs
Diodes
Zener Diodes
Switches
Transformers
Voltage Controlled Oscillators
Transient Voltage Suppressors
PWL Sources
Pulse Sources
Sine Sources
DC Sources
Exponential Sources
Impulse Sources
FM Sources
Three Phase Sources
Noise Sources

Generic Models

Controlled Sources
Ground
Current Sources
Voltage Sources
Digital
Discretes
Passives

Model Import Wizard

Quickly configure manufacturer’s SPICE models to simulate realistic circuit behavior with the easy, wizard-driven import.

Model Language Support

System C/C++
Verilog A
Verliog AMS

Circuit Simulation

Transient (Time Domain)

Simulate the behavior of the circuit over time.

Bias Point

Display values for voltage, current, and power at points in the circuit directly on the schematic canvas.

DC Sweep

Sweep a source (voltage or current), a global parameter, a model parameter, or temperature through a range of values.

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AC Sweep

Simulate the frequency response of your circuit.

Noise

Simulate device noise contributions and the total input and output noise.

Worst-Case

Determine the worst probable output of a circuit or system given the restricted variance of its parameters.

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Temperature Sweep

Determine the effects of temperature on circuit behavior by performing the analyses at different temperatures.

Parametric Sweep

Perform multiple iterations of an analysis while varying a global parameter, model parameter, component value, or operational temperature.

Advanced Analysis

Monte Carlo Analysis

Automatic statistical calculations, probability density graphs, and cumulative distribution graphs predict production yield.

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Component Stress Analysis

Identify which components are in danger of becoming over-stressed before going to production.

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Component Tolerance Analysis

Identify which components require tighter or looser tolerances with sensitivity analysis.

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Design Optimization

Compare ideal measurements or waveforms with current circuit behavior and automatically identify component parameters that require adjustment to achieve the desired functionality.

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Parameter Analysis

Vary multiple component parameters at once and view the effect on circuit behavior with the Parametric Plotter.

Electro-Mechanical Analysis

Simulate the entire electro-mechanical system as one with bi-directional integration, streamlined co-simulation, and the easy import of PSpice models into Simulink.

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