User Guide

What’s New
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What’s New
New PSpice interface with integrated waveform
analysis functionality Release 9 of PSpice includes all
of Probe’s features and adds to them. Included in one
screen are tabbed windows for viewing plots, text
windows for viewing output files or other text files, and a
simulation status and message window. Also included is
a new, self-documenting analysis setup dialog for creating
simulation profiles (see below). PSpice now provides an
editable simulation queue which shows you how many
files are currently in line to be simulated. You can edit or
re-order the list as needed. And the plotting features have
been improved by providing user-controlled grid settings,
grid and trace properties (style and color) and metafile
format copy and paste functions.
Simulation profiles PSpice Release 9 introduces the
concept of simulation profiles. Each simulation profile
refers to one schematic in a design and includes one
analysis type (AC, DC, or Transient) with any options
(sensitivity, temperature, parametric, Monte Carlo, etc.).
You can define as many profiles as you need for your
design and you can set up multiple analyses of the same
type. Simulation profiles help you keep your analysis
results separate, so you can delete one without losing the
rest.
New OrCAD Capture front-end Release 9 integrates
OrCAD Capture as the front-end schematic entry tool for
PSpice. Capture provides a professional design entry
environment with many advanced capabilities that now
work hand-in-hand with PSpice. These include a project
manager, a new property editor spreadsheet, right mouse
button support, and many other time-saving features.
To
f
in
d
out more, see Analyzing
waveforms on page -319.
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