garthee

I, like many had the same feeling that Orcad , popularly known and PSpice, is less user friendly and system with purposefully things made hard. However, today I found, while working desperately on an Electronic project, that it is in fact a very flexible robust system.

Few things are hard to understand, as they reflect the internal modularization. Actually, Pspice, simulation program works on the parts / circuits given in text file, namely netlist. However, with recent developments it provides a gui where we can user can drag-drop the parts, connect and set parameters, namely Capture CIS. The parts have the default parameters, if not set explicitly and they are organized in files called libraries, sometimes separately for Pspice, Capture CIS and Layout – a program to design the PCB layout, route the lines optimally and print PCBs.

I also found an extremely helpful article which illustrates the proper usage of Spice with Capture CIS and I would like to share that.

http://www.seas.upenn.edu/%7Ejan/spice/PSpicePrimer.pdf

However, it is essential to have a clean install with all the authorization keys entered correctly and properly cracked. Well, i was damned first with an improper installation.