User Guide

Things you need to know
1
Chapter overview
This chapter introduces the purpose and function of the
OrCAD
®
PSpice circuit simulator.
• What is PSpice? on page 1-2 describes PSpice
capabilities.
• Analyses you can run with PSpice on page 1-3 introduces
the different kinds of basic and advanced analyses that
PSpice supports.
•
Using PSpice with other OrCAD programs on page 1-9
presents the high-level simulation design flow.
•
Files needed for simulation on page 1-10 describes the
files used to pass information between OrCAD
programs. This section also introduces the things you
can do to customize where and how PSpice finds
simulation information.
•
Files that PSpice generates on page 1-14 describes the
files that contain simulation results.
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