User Guide

Chapter 3 Preparing a design for simulation
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Checklist for simulation setup
This section describes what you need to do to set up your
circuit for simulation.
1 Find the topic that is of interest in the first column of
any of these tables.
2 Go to the referenced section. For those sections that
provide overviews, you will find references to more
detailed discussions.
Typical simulation setup steps
For more information on this step... See this... To find out this...
✔
Set component values
and other properties.
Using parts that you can
simulate on page 3-60
An overview of vendor, passive,
breakout, and behavioral parts.
Using global parameters and
expressions for values on
page 3-67
How to define values using variable
parameters, functional calls, and
mathematical expressions.
✔
Define power
supplies.
Defining power supplies on
page 3-74
An overview of DC power for
analog circuits..
✔
Define input
waveforms.
Defining stimuli on
page 3-75
An overview of DC, AC, and
time-based stimulus parts.
✔
Set up one or more
analyses.
Chapter 7, Setting up
analyses and starting
simulation
Procedures, general to all analysis
types, to set up and start the
simulation.
Chapter 8
through
Chapter 12
(see the table of
contents)
Detailed information about DC, AC,
transient, parametric, temperature,
Monte Carlo, and
sensitivity/worst-case..
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