Naif offers a set of handson programming lessons to assist newer users in learning fundamentals of programming with spice apis subroutines. Hspice is used for circuit simulation and waveview is used to view output waveforms. The program takes an input file the deck and outputs its results to the terminal. Pspice tutorials with examples from beginners to experts. This tutorial is designed to introduce you to the tools we will use in class. For example operational amplifier consists of many transistors and other components. Getting started with hspice a tutorial 3 figure 11 tutorial circuit a logic design exor. Let us understand the elements of the code of hspice. It is suggested that you use the same name for the. Whenever you place a component, it takes a default position, for example, a resistor, capacitor, or inductor will take a. Digital encoder design and simulation pspice sub circuits. It will also show you how to use the simulator hspice in standalone mode to make certain parts of your design exploration easier ece 546students.
Hspice tutorial prepared by dongwan ha oct 21, 2008 1 introduction spice is a general purpose analog electronic circuit simulator. The linux version work on command line and should not me much different. When installing the hspice program on windows, the administrator priority is essential for. Synopsys tutorial part 2 custom designer schematic. This tutorial will focus on the usage of input files for netlists. Hspice is an analog circuit simulator similar to berkeleys spice3 capable of. Use comments profusely to make your code more understandable. This tutorial will guide you through the windows version of the hspice. View notes hspicetutorial from ece 9601 at western university. This tutorial will introduce you to the cadence environment. Sub circuits contains contains collections of electronics components which is used as a single components. Whether youre a student or professional, spice will allow you to predict the behavior of your electronic circuits accurately.
Awaves is a program that allows you to graphically plot the results of the analysis that hspice did. Hspice and cosmosscope tutorial hspice is used for circuit simulation and cosmosscope is used to view output. The first part of the labs is a short tutorial on using hspice. And pspice is a product of the orcad corporation and the student version we are using is.
Hspice is a smart program and will automatically assign ohms to resistors, farads to capacitors, and henries to inductors. It is an expressionoriented language with multiple values, dynamic typing, automatic storage management, and multiplydispatched methods. To use it, type use hspice which sets up your permissions correctly to access the hspice tools. Pdf version programming a circuit simulation with spice is much like programming in any other computer language. Hspice is just a program that takes in a netlist a simple text file, containing a circuit description and analysis options, and outputs the analysis it has done on. When autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next.
If you are just starting out, you might want to copy a demo file to your own directory and edit the netlist to create your own circuit. Introduction to hspice sharif university of technology. A good way to learn the system is to simply explore different icons, using the. Write your spice file using any text editor and save it with a. Hspice is used for circuit simulation and waveview is used to view output. Brief spice tutorial ece 3110, university of utah, fall 2002 by now, you have used spice in at least one other class. Awaves is a program that allows you to graphically plot the results of the hspice analysis. Spice simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis is a generalpurpose, opensource analog electronic circuit simulator. It is worthwhile to take a look at some simple simulation using hspice. You have to explicitly tell hspice to generate the extra. You could find some example source files in this tutorial latter. The contents of this file appear later in this section. Spice is a general purpose analog electronic circuit simulator. Hspice tutorial university of california, berkeley.
Hspice once you have completed and saved your deck, you can compile it using the following command from the unix prompt. The basics of spice and how its integrated into autodesk eagle. Hspice to ltspice electronics forum circuits, projects. Ltspice is node unlimited, incredibly easy to learn and can be used to simulate most of the analogue components from linear technology as well as discrete and passive components. Introduction to hspice simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis developed in 1970s at berkeley many commercial versions are available hspice is a robust industry standard has many enhancements that we will use written in fortran for punchcard machines circuits elements are called cards complete description is called a spice deck. However, it is not written that you must trust hspice and so the units can be manually assigned by. Nelson electrical and computer engineering department california state polytechnic university, pomona winter 20 this tutorial provides a basic introduction to the use of hspice and cosmosscope for students in the electrical and computer engineering department at cal poly pomona. For more details on hspice input file format, please refer to the. This tutorial shows hspice simulation of a cmos inverter. And the unix cursor should change, for instance if your. A new window pop up with the pspice project type, select create a blank project and click ok. Hspice introduction hspice is an analog circuit simulator similar to berkeleys spice3 capable of performing.
Basic screen there are three windows that are opened. Electrical and computer engineering outline introduction installation prepare a circuit for simulation simulation using pspice a typical example. A good tutorial on spice simulation is available here. Hspice manual for the use of hspice syntax in the source file you could find some example source files in thisfile. It is a program used in integrated circuit and boardlevel design to check the integrity of circuit designs and to predict circuit behavior. All eight lessons can be done using naifs webgeocalc tool in addition to doing them using the naifsupported languages. The statement stripline circuit is a comment in hspice.
Pspice tutorial create a new project and select analog or mixed ad. It is a powerful program that is used in ic and boardlevel design to check the integrity of circuit designs and to predict circuit behavior. Before you run your spice simulations in a new xterm or rxvt window, run the following unix command in your unix directory. Hspice tutorial contents 1 introduction 1 2 windows vs. You can specify whether the hspice or hspice rf program simulation output. To learn more about hspice look up the official documentation. Some students may have experience using only the schematic capture version of. To plot the appropriate data, open your hspice design and choose the analysis and nodes of interest from the results browser. Hspice is just a program that takes in a netlist a simple text. Introduction the objective of this tutorial is to provide an introduction to the hspice simulation environment. The basic structure of an input netlist file consists of one main program and one. This tutorial provides a basic introduction to the use of hspice and cosmosscope for students in the.
It is a powerful program that is used in ic and boardlevel design to check the. Hspice athena quickstart guide if you really cannot access a pc to run ltspice, you can complete your simulations using hspice, a nongraphical spice compiler available on athena, and plot your output files using avanwaves. This tutorial is a guide to its use as a standalone tool for performing circuit. Pspice simulates the circuit, and calculates its electrical characteristics. When installing the hspice program on windows, the. For further assistance the students are encouraged to contact the lab tutors during the lab sessions or via email.
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