Electronic Circuits with MATLAB, PSpice, and Smith Chart

Appendix HOrCAD/PSpice®

OrCAD PSpice^®, formerly MicroSim PSpice^® (Professional Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis), is a powerful circuit simulation program with graphic interface to analyze electric and electronic circuits. You can download the OrCAD demo software together with the OrCAD flow tutorial at the web site http://www.cadence.com/products.

H.1 Starting Capture Component Information System (CIS) Session

Once you have installed the OrCAD software, you may start the Capture Component Information System (CIS) Demo session by clicking the corresponding icon to open the Capture CIS Window (Figure H.1), in which you can click File> New> Project on the menu bar to open the New Project dialog box (Figure H.1(b)). Here, you are supposed to do the following in the New Project dialog box:

• In the Name field, type, say, ‘test’ (with no quotation mark) as a new project name.
• Check the radio button of Analog or Mixed A/D.
• In the L ocation field, type the pathname of the subdirectory in which you want the new project to be saved. You can use the Browse button to select the location for the project files and click OK.
• Then click OK to close the New Project dialog box, which will make the Create PSpice Project dialog box pop‐up.
• Check the radio button of Create a blank project and click OK in the Create PSpice Project box (Figure H.1(c)).

Then you will see the activated Capture (CIS) Window with the menu bar together with the tool bar, which has the Project Manager ...