User Guide

Chapter 4 Creating and editing models
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The Model Editor tutorial
In this tutorial, you will model a simple diode device as
follows:
• Create the schematic for a simple half-wave rectifier.
• Run the Model Editor from the schematic editor to
create an instance model for the diode in your
schematic.
Creating the half-wave rectifier design
To draw the design
1 From the Project Manager, from the File menu point to
New, then choose Project.
2 Enter the name of the new project (RECTFR) and click
Create.
3 From Capture’s Place menu, choose Part.
4 Place one each of the following parts (reference
designator shown in parentheses) as shown in
Figure 30:
• Dbreak (D1 diode)
• C (C1 capacitor)
• R (R1 resistor)
• VSIN (V1 sine wave source)
5 Click the Ground button and place the analog ground.
6 From the Place menu, choose Wire, and draw the
connections between parts as shown in Figure 30.
7 From the File menu, choose Save.
Note
If you were to simulate this design using a transient analysis, you
would also need to set up a transient specification for V1; most
likely, this would mean defining the VOFF (offset voltage), VAMPL
(amplitude), and FREQ (frequency) properties for V1. For this
tutorial, however, you will not perform a simulation, so you can
skip this step.
press P
Figure 30
Design for a half-wave rectifier.
press W
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