PSpice Instructions and Information

• PSpice General Instructions, with installation of Student Version on CSU ENS desktop.  Includes installation of custom PSpice models for CSU EE courses.
• If you install PSpice on your home computer, be sure that you install OrCAD Schematics along with PSpice A/D. For CSU assignments, you will use Schematics not Capture. To obtain free copy of PSpice, see Support below.

• To learn to use PSpice, read Appendix D of the textbook for EECC192 and EE201/EE202, which is Fundamentals of Electric Circuits by Alexander and Sadiku (McGraw Hill, 2000). It provides very useful how-to descriptions of DC, Transient Analysis, and AC Sweep with PSpice Schematics.
• PSpice A/D (Schematics Version) Users Guide (4.3MB pdf file)
• All Orcad manuals (pdf) can be found by starting at index:
  s:\Applications\PSpice_Pro_92_old\Document\rel92pdf.pdf
• Hints for use of PSpice
• Convergence problems with PSpice.
• How to setup a PSpice pulse voltage source.
• How to create PSpice model using a Breakout model and symbol.
• How to create a custom symbol and model
• Model for Ideal Tranformer.

• Cadence Design System, Inc supplies a download PSpice 9.1 StudentVersion (or a OrCad 9.2 Lite Edition CD) containing PSpice A/D, Capture, and PSpice Optimizer, which can be installed on your home computer. The Cadence downloads or CDs may not contain Schematics. Schematics is the program for schematic capture that we currently use for PSpice at CSU. For your home PC, you can also obtain from your instructor a version of PSpice on a CD that includes Schematics. PSpice CDs supplied with text books usually do not include Schematics.
• www.pspice.com for PSpice models, online help, books, downloads, etc...
• Links to Spice models.
• PSpice On-line Tutorial Lectures (download and run the run movies)