PSpice (Introductory) Part - 1

This post is for introducing all with the power of PSpice. Those who already know about this software please wait, I'll write all the steps of analyzing a circuit with PSpice very soon. But now it's for the beginners :D

What is SPICE?  
Before knowing about PSpice we've to know what's SPICE. SPICE is a powerful general purpose analog and mixed-mode circuit simulator. This is used to verify circuit designs and to predict the circuit's behavior in real life.

PSpice:
PSpice is a PC version of SPICE [ Available from the OrCAD Corp. ] . A Student version(which has some limitations) comes with various textbooks.

PSpice can do several types of circuit analysis. Some important ones are given below:

• DC circuit Analysis and Kirchhoff's Laws
• AC circuit Analysis
• Transient Circuits and Laplace Transforms 
• Transfer Functions and System Parameters 
• Series and Parallel-tuned Resonance
• Semiconductor devices and Characteristics
• Operational Amplifier Characteristics

I think this is enough for now. I'll post more about PSpice in the next post with the procedure how to plot circuits on it and Simulation ofcourse!

Till then have a nice time :)

PSpice 9.1 Student version