About tools to simulate circuits. Specify the tool used.
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How do I display results using ngspice?
Using this tutorial, I am using ngspice (on Cygwin) to run the following file:
My first circuit
v 1 0 dc 10
r 1 0 5
.end
However, after running it using ...
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PSpice VSIN frequency - how to set it in rad/s?
I know, that if I want to set FREQ, I need to set it in Hz, not in rad/s. I know, that
1 Hz = 2*pi rad/s,
but how to do this in PSpice? What should I enter exactly?
and btw. if I want to set VOFF ...
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Question about sign
I need to answer this question using PSpice:
It seems it's -15mA, BUT in the exercise, the current source is < (I understand it's + < -)
in Pspice I set it to < as well, but there is - ...
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Virtual display for simple GPU development
Related: Where to start when considering making a GPU?
I'm a pretty strong programmer, but I'm very new to hardware design, so apologies if I use strange terminology.
My long-term goal is to ...
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What's the modern day board-level design process? [closed]
With smaller surface mount components and multilayer PCBs now the standard, it's seems almost impossible to construct DIY prototypes of analog board designs to substantially play with and iteratively ...
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“model name is missing” error in HSPICE
I get these errors in a simulation in HSPICE and I don't know why:
model name is missing tokin number= 4
difficulty in reading input
Here is are ...
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ModelSim Altera: simulating the “lpm_add_sub” module?
I'm trying to simulate a verilog module that uses the "lpm_add_sub" module to provide an adder with a separate carry in (for some reason Quartus II doesn't recognise that ...
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Simulating PID controller in Matlab
I am trying to explore PID control with a simulation. My problem is that the derivative term does not behave as expected in my simulation: No matter how large its coefficient it seems unable to ...
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Executing Spice commands written in file
I successfully executed ngspice commands via the command line.
When I wrote those commands to the .net file, and run that file via ngspice, they didn't work.
The ...
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Alternative IBIS model for receiver
What do you do when you want to simulate a signal (i.e with Hyperlynx) but you can't find the IBIS model of the receiver chip?
What parameters do you need? Where can you find them?
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Limits of electromagnetic computation [closed]
How do Maxwell's equations used for calculations and electromagnetic simulation push the limits of our numerical methods and computation tools? What are the modern limitations people in the field ...
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Working with gEDA [closed]
I want to make a simulation of a simple Buck converter (with freewheeling diode) with gEDA & gSpiceUI.
How do I do that?
I'm totally new to this, it seems difficult to understand.
Do you know a ...
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Logisim - Tunnel that outputs the OR result of all of its inputs
Consider this screenshot:
When the two values differ, I get this:
This makes sense, but it's a problem. I would like the tunnel to function like this: when it's getting mixed values, it outputs ...
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Analysing Signal quality through pogo pins using Hyperlynx
I have successfully modeled Linesim and boardsim schematics for quite a few designs in the past and we have been able to do the required SI simulations. I had one question though: On one of our ...
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How to simulate a circuit with LM2576 in it?
Background: I am software engineer with a limited knowledge of electronics. This is a n00b question.
I want to design a circuit to step down DC voltage from about 24V to 12V. I have tried a 7812 ...
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Understanding a high voltage generator circuit
I found a thread in the forum about a high voltage power supply 3V to 500V DC converter and someone suggested a circuit from techlib H.V. generator for Geiger tubes:
However,when I tried to ...
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Circuit Simulator for sampled Input
I would like to be able to capture a signal from my DSO and run it through a simulator to allow me to develop a simple analog preprocessor for a brushless motor speed sensor. Please correct me if I'm ...
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Program to simulate seven segment display in atmel studio
I am using Atmel studio for the programming of atmega64 microcontrollers with a Cerebot board II.
Firstly, is there a program that can simulate a seven segment display device as if I was looking at ...
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Assignments with after and signals
I am trying to understand how assignments with 'after foo' work, so I read about the delay model and simulated the following code:
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Heat Activated Alarm
I am working on a project in which I have to simulate a heat activated alarm. I have attached two images. One of which is a Proteus circuit image that i have made. When i start its simulation the ...
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How does this LED setup work?
I noticed this LED setup in a datasheet for the Kingbright SA40-19EWA. Instead of the leds being in a simple series or parallel setup, each segment of the display has four sets of two leds in ...
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What is the output voltage of this 555 timer high voltage circuit?
I'm trying to calculate the theoritical output voltage of the following 555 timer high voltage circuit.
It claims to output up to ...
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Simulation for a transmission loop using PowerWorld
I am now learning how to use PowerWorld Simulator. However, I faced some problems when I tried to enter the data given in the paper.
I want to simulate the following transmission loop:
First things ...
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Why is the following simulation not working?
The following is a multistage amplifier. It consists of 3 parts:
Waveform generator and inverting amplifier
A small signal amplifier with gain 20 and a small signal amplifier with gain 10
A power ...
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How to improve nasty form clipping behavior in differential input stage
The amplifier in the following schematic, when simulated, shows that it can cleanly amplify a signal with 0.1V amplitude to 10V. When driven with a larger signal, though, the behavior is very nasty in ...
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Logisim - wire holds value 'e' when zoomed out, but not when zoomed in
I'm trying to make a multiplier in logisim. This is a full picture of my schematic:
As you can see, there is an 'e' coming out of my 'XXXXX-XXX00' adder. But, when I look at the schematic for ...
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SPI routing question…Maximum length SPI can be routed
Basically my question is regarding maximum length of SPI routing, and route efficiently in my scenario and any timing issues(Setup and Hold).
I am just explaining my scenario. Please bear with me, it ...
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Simple LED model for circuit simulation
I'm new to electronics and I'm learning the basics for a small home project involving LEDs, fiber optics, and microcontrollers.
I'd like to simulate the circuit I plan to build to get a better ...
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Flip signal values in verilog simulation
I use "force" command in modelsim to force an internal signal to a specific value (not primary inputs). Sometimes, the value I force is the same as the original value.
Is there any command that can ...
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Simulating Altera FPGAs with an old version of ModelSim?
I'm hoping to do some development work on Altera FPGAs that will likely be larger than is supported by the free edition of ModelSim. I have an old copy of the full version hanging around (version ...
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How do I measure the characteristics of a voltage divider in a QUCS simulation?
How do I measure the characteristics of a voltage divider in QUCS?
Below is what I have tried thus far, using Qucs 0.0.15 on Ubuntu 10.04
I want to measure how the voltage at the center of a ...
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Logisim: timing problems setting register
I'm having some problems understanding the timing behaviors I observe in Logisim. I've isolated some cases which illustrate the problem.
Say I have a register (1-bit, to keep it simple), which is ...
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Simulation of a circuit
I am trying to simulate this circuit i want to know if the circuit i assembled is correct?
i want the current of VCCS element 1 and 2 plotted on a graph as i vary Vtun, Vsprog and Vdprog. I am ...
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What software do people use to make digital circuit schematics? [duplicate]
What software do people use to make electronic circuit schematics like this or similar.I tried using multisim but it seems to miss most chips.
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Defining a nonlinear capacitor in Ngspice
I try to simulate an electronic circuit depicted in the schematic below.
This circuit contains two nonlinear devices :
These two devices are depending on the charge density and are defined as ...
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How to modify spice transistor model
I have a few transistor (example 2n3906, 2n2222, etc) models and have used them with ngspice & gnucap with no issues.
I would like to use another transistor (example 2n4401) but I am not able to ...
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Constant current battery discharge
I'm simulating NiMH cell discharge from 1.5V to 1.0V. The circuit I drew is supposed to draw a constant current from the battery.
I simulate a DC Sweep in circuit lab but somehow the current draw ...
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Calculating photodiode current based on A/W for simulation
I'd like to simulate photodiode current for a silicon photodiode, one example device the project may use has the following specifications:
Based on the above plus a guess at Rs for the moment from ...
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How can I model this linear power system in MATLAB?
For my power system, let us suppose it has the following dynamic model: \$\ x ' = f(x,u)\$.
This dynamic model consists of four first order differential equations (see below).
Then, I linearized ...
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Spice_ Capacitors in series
I try to simulate an RLC circuit depicted in the annexed file. I have noticed that ngspice is not able to compile two capacitors which are connected in series. The netlist is written as follows:
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LTSpice simulation of rectifier slows down after short time
I have the following simple circuit set up in LTspice:
Blue is on the output of the transformer and green from the rectifier.
If I don't include a capacitor this works fine and the simulation goes ...
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Battery Charging - Electrical Model
A common technique used in battery charging algorithms is Constant Current / Constant Voltage. That is to say, initially a battery is charged by applying a constant current (which I believe is what is ...
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Matrix and simulation
I came across a simulation software called MATLAB. I got to know it takes inputs in the form of matrices, provides output in terms of matrices , all in all it operates using matrices. But it seems ...
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Code Error 9 In Modelsim
When I am trying to do simulation of the following program on Modelsim Altera 10.0d then gives Error : Code Error 9:
** Fatal: (vsim-4) * Memory allocation failure.
Attempting to allocate 131072 ...
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Diode Bridge in Simulator not behaving as expected
Hi I have a Diode Bridge as outlined in the image below. As you can see I am getting a negative voltage on one pair of diodes instead of this voltage being flipped to positive.
Can you see anything ...
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Value of M-Ary?
Here, I want to simulate an M-ary [pulse-amplitude modulation] system. Anyhow, I chose my binary source to generate information at a rate of 1Mbps. The data "virtually" has a zero intersymbol ...
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Simulating IBIS Model in modelSim
I am developing a logic in an FPGA that will act as a controller for a chip by TI. I got the TI chip IBIS model from the TI website.
My controller is ready and I want to simulate it using ModelSim. ...
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Is there a way to open/import gschem .sch file in qucs?
Is there a way to open .sch files produced by gschem in qucs? The two applications use different file formats. Does anyone know if a converter exists?
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Why does this simple VHDL pattern for a shift register not work as expected
At first glance you would expect the VHDL source code below to behave as a shift register. In that q, over time would be
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Cassette Input From TRS-80 - Design Review
I'm working on getting an input from a cassette for a TRS-80 microcomputer (of 70's vintage). This is what I've worked up. It is a second order high pass active filter with rolloff frequency of 2kHz ...
