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Introduction to PSpice and Ohm's law -- Laying out a schematic -- Libraries -- Moving components around -- Display properties -- The DC circuit -- New simulation -- Main operational icons -- Simulation settings -- Potential divider -- Current divider -- Exercises -- The DC circuit and Kirchhoff's laws -- Maximum power transfer -- Param part -- Simulation settings -- Trace expression box -- Changing the X-axis Variable -- The log command -- Mesh analysis -- Nodal analysis -- Exercises -- Transient circuits and Laplace transforms -- Transient analysis -- Laplace transform and capacitance -- Inductance -- First-order CR and LR circuits -- Solution -- Partial fraction expansion -- Initial conditions -- Transfer functions and system parameters -- Transfer functions -- Butterworth transfer functions and the Laplace part -- Piece-wise linear part (VPWL) -- Probe grid and cursors icons -- Elaplace part and the step response -- Chebychev transfer functions impulse response -- Unsynchronizing probe plots -- First-order low-pass filter step and impulse responses -- Obtaining the frequency response from the impulse response -- The low-pass CR filter step response -- Rise time -- Step response of a series-tuned LCR circuit -- Overshoot -- Exercises -- AC circuits and circuit theorems -- AC circuit theory -- Capacitors -- Capacitive reactance plot -- Capacitor current and voltage waveforms -- Inductors -- Inductor signal phase measurement -- AC circuit theorems -- Thevenin's theorem -- Thevenin impedance -- Thevenin voltage -- Norton equivalent circuit -- The output file -- AC mesh and nodal analysis -- Exercises -- Series and parallel-tuned resonance -- Resonance -- Series-tuned circuit -- Current response -- Example -- Solution -- Q-factor -- The -3 dB bandwidth -- Voltages across L and C at resonance -- Universal response curve -- Selectivity of a series-tuned resonant circuit -- L/C ratio and selectivity -- Series-tuned LCR phase response -- Impedance of a series-tuned circuit -- Fourier series -- Series-tuned circuit as a low-pass filter -- The output file -- Skip initial conditions -- Parallel-tuned LCR circuit -- Universal response curve -- Relationship between the resonant frequency and bandwidth -- Loaded Q-factor -- Example -- Solution -- Problem -- Frequency response of a parallel-tuned circuit -- Dynamic impedance -- Loaded and unloaded Q-factor -- Transformers -- Transformer parameters -- Matching transformer -- Power supplies: Rectification and regulation -- Power supply waveforms -- Power supply voltage regulation -- Ground bounce -- Power factor correction -- Average power and apparent power -- Exercises -- Semiconductor devices and characteristics -- Semiconductor devices -- The forward and reverse-biased diode characteristic -- Diode parameters -- DC load line -- Voltage regulation -- Zener diode characteristic -- Zener diode regulation -- Silicon-controlled rectifier -- Triac controller -- The bipolar transistor -- The input and output BJT characteristics -- The output characteristic -- DC load lines -- Junction field-effect transistor -- The common source JFET transistor input characteristic -- Adding a load line to the transfer characteristic -- Quiescent DC operating point -- JFET output characteristic -- Effect of temperature on the JFET transfer characteristic -- The D operator -- Exercises -- Operational amplifier Characteristics -- Ideal operational amplifiers -- The inverting operational amplifier and virtual earth -- Slew rate limiting -- The noninverting operational amplifier -- Gain-bandwidth product -- Audio power amplifiers -- The output file -- Mosfet device characteristic -- CMOS model -- Nand gate -- Nor gate -- Exercises -- References -- Appendix A: Laplace and z-transform table.

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PSpice for Circuit Theory and Electronic Devices is one of a series of five PSpice books and introduces the latest Cadence Orcad PSpice version 10.5 by simulating a range of DC and AC exercises. It is aimed primarily at those wishing to get up to speed with this version but will be of use to high school students, undergraduate students, and of course, lecturers. Circuit theorems are applied to a range of circuits and the calculations by hand after analysis are then compared to the simulated results. The Laplace transform and the s-plane are used to analyze CR and LR circuits where transient signals are involved. Here, the Probe output graphs demonstrate what a great learning tool PSpice is by providing the reader with a visual verification of any theoretical calculations. Series and parallel-tuned resonant circuits are investigated where the difficult concepts of dynamic impedance and selectivity are best understood by sweeping different circuit parameters through a range of values. Obtaining semiconductor device characteristics as a laboratory exercise has fallen out of favour of late, but nevertheless, is still a useful exercise for understanding or modelling semiconductor devices. Inverting and non-inverting operational amplifiers characteristics such as gain-bandwidth are investigated and we will see the dependency of bandwidth on the gain using the performance analysis facility. Power amplifiers are examined where PSpice/Probe demonstrates very nicely the problems of cross-over distortion and other problems associated with power transistors. We examine power supplies and the problems of regulation, ground bounce, and power factor correction. Lastly, we look at MOSFET device characteristics and show how these devices are used to form basic CMOS logic gates such as NAND and NOR gates.

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