User Guide

***Draft*** Glossary
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global port
Provides a connection to another global port of the same name
anywhere in the schematic.
gravity
The property of a drawing object to snap to the nearest grid or pin
when being placed on a drawing or moved about a drawing.
gravity radius
The distance between the cursor and an object on the schematic in
which the object can be selected.
grid
A pattern of horizontal and vertical lines that aid in placing objects on
a schematic or symbol drawing.
hidden pins
Pins that are not connected by wires and buses, but through an
attribute that names the net that they belong to.
hierarchical design
A design of more than one level wherein a portion of the design
(lower-level schematic) is represented by a block or symbol on a
higher-level schematic.
hotspot
The point at the end of a pin that forms a junction when it intersects
with a wire or bus segment
instance name
A unique name for a part instance.
interface port
A port providing connectivity to the pins of hierarchical symbols or
blocks.
junction
A graphical indication that wires, buses, and pins are electrically
connected.
marker
Notations placed on a schematic to identify locations for observing
voltage, current or digital signal levels, or waveform behavior when
the circuit is analyzed.
message
A character string generated by an application, describing some kind
of condition, status or other information, and displayed by the
Message Viewer.
model definition
An underlying description of the electrical behavior of a part using a
set of variable parameters. Used by PSpice.
pspice.ini file
The initialization file, usually contained in the Windows directory,
containing start-up and configuration information for PSpice and
PSpice Schematics.