EMRFD Message Archive 7984

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7984 2012-12-25 13:59:01 Alberto I2PHD Spice and PSpice
Greetings all,

when designing a new circuit often I use the Pspice program included in the package Cadence 16.3
It works well, the problem is that many components are not included in its libraries, like e.g. the BFR96

Googling around, I found the Spice definitions for this component, and for many others, the problem
being that they are in a format different from that specific of the Cadence incarnation of Spice,
i.e. PSpice....

My question is : is anybody aware of a way to convert the commonly available Spice parameters, those
released by the transistors manufacturers, in a format palatable to Cadence PSpice ?

I suppose to not be the first to have encountered this problem, so a solution surely must be lying around..

TNX

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7987 2012-12-25 22:35:22 victor Re: Spice and PSpice
The soluti
7988 2012-12-26 14:24:18 Alberto I2PHD Re: Spice and PSpice
7995 2012-12-27 07:21:36 John Levreault Re: Spice and PSpice
FWIW, LTSpiceIV can read OrCAD/Cadence PSpice library files.

John NB1I

7999 2012-12-27 08:31:36 Alberto I2PHD Re: Spice and PSpice
8020 2013-01-03 07:16:17 drmail377 Re: Spice and PSpice
I've had mixed results using downloaded SPICE models and subs with LTSpice, if memory serves the likes of certain PSpice and OrCAD models have encrypted sections that don't work with LTSpiceIV. There is a very active LTSpice Yahoo Group here where your questions will be answered promptly. LTSpice is quite powerful - but know the limitations of SPICE in-general when dealing with analog/mixed-signal simulati
8021 2013-01-03 07:35:36 John Levreault Re: Spice and PSpice
Linear Tech has a video on using 3rd-party models:

<http://video.linear.com/all--Software_*_Simulation-97>

I don't know about "encrypted sections", as I've used the 16.5 PSpice libraries
directly without any problem. And as long as I follow the procedures outlined in
the video referenced above, I've not had any issues with other 3rd party models.

I agree that the Yahoo group is an excellent resource.

John NB1I

8024 2013-01-03 13:06:22 Alberto I2PHD Re: Spice and PSpice