PSpice Tutorials

Note 1: You need to install the TSCC codec in order to properly view these files. You also need a sound card.

Note 2: The video clips show the PSpice Student Version 9.1 with 'Schematic' option (vs. the 'Capture' option, which is an alternative schematic capture program)

Times of the AVI video clips are indicated in minutes:seconds format.

The Basics

• Start PSpice schematic editor (0:17)  [pspice_startup.avi]
• PROBE techniques: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

Circuit Devices

• Typical device names (3:14)  [pspice_parts_basic_devices.avi]
• Controlled (dependent) sources (0:55)  [pspice_parts_controlled_sources.avi]
• Ideal opamp model (0:41)  [pspice_parts_ideal_opamp.avi]
• Practical opamp model (1:34)  [pspice_parts_ua741.avi]

DC Analysis Techniques

• Enter a circuit and measure node voltages and branch currents (4:20)  [pspice_dc_analysis.avi]
• Sweep a source through a range of values (4:02)  [pspice_dc_sweep_source.avi]
• Sweep a resistor value through a range of values (2:56)  [pspice_dc_sweep_resistance.avi]
• Measure effective resistance of a resistor network (2:29)  [pspice_dc_effective_resistance.avi]
• Plot a variable other than voltage or current (e.g., power) (2:10)  [pspice_probe_power.avi]
• Find Thevenin and Norton equivalent of a circuit (2:49)  [pspice_dc_thevenin_and_norton.avi]

AC Analysis Techniques

• Phasor voltage measurement (magnitude and phase) (3:23)  [pspice_ac_magnitude_phase.avi]
• Frequency response (Bode plot) (3:31)  [pspice_ac_bode_plot.avi]

Transient (Time-Domain) Analysis Techniques

• Basic simulation procedure, and pulse (squarewave) source
• Sinusoidal source
• Piecewise-linear source