SPICE for Power Electronics and Electric Power, 3rd Edition

1	Introduction

After completing this chapter, students should be able to do the following:

•  Describe the general features and the types of SPICE software.

•  Describe the types of analysis that can be performed on electronic and electrical circuits.

•  Describe the limitations of PSpice^® software.

•  List the online resources on SPICE.

1.1    INTRODUCTION

Electronic circuit design requires accurate methods of evaluating circuit performance. Because of the enormous complexity of modern integrated circuits, computer-aided circuit analysis is essential and can provide information about circuit performance that is almost impossible to obtain with laboratory prototype measurements. Computer-aided analysis makes possible the following procedures: ...