Practical work 1: PSPICE simulation of fundamental circuits.
1/ Writing the netlist describing the circuit in Figure 1:
2/Performing a DC operating point simulation:
V(1) = 19.692V V(3)= 19.692V
3/Performing a continuous simulation:
4/Giving the forms of V(1) and V(3):
V(1) = V(3) = ax + b (x=V1)
a= (5.84 - 3.84 )/(7.51 - 3.59) = 0.51
b= 1.23
V(1) = V(3) = 0.51V1 + 1.23
5/Finding Req and Vth:
Req: 1300Ω Vth: 19.692V
6/Performing a transient simulation:
7/Plotting the simulating curve and finding values:
Final voltage: Vs= 19.692V
Constant of the capacity charge time: It is the time needed for the capacity to charge up to 63% of its final voltage. 0.63*Vs= 12.4V, by viewing the corresponding time for Vs= 12.4, we find that τ= 43.22 µs
8/PULSE signal: Freq= 1kHz: Freq= 10kHz:
Freq= 20kHz: 9/SIN signal:
f(kHz) 0.1 3.7 10
Vc(V) 4.99 3.52 1.73
ΔT(ms) 0.043 0.033 0.018
Δ𝛗(°)= 360ΔT/T -1.5° -45.02° -69.64°
G(dB)= 20log|Vc/Ve| -3.15m -3.06 -9.17
10/Plotting the transfer functions:
11/The cutoff frequency:
The cutoff frequency is the frequency corresponding to G(dB)=-3dB and also Δ𝛗(°)=-45° which is: f=3.7kHz 12/Interpretations and conclusions:
Conclusions on the tp:
-Pspice allows us to realize circuits and via writing their code following the circuit’s nets. -Once our netlist is done we can then give different commands such as: Plotting (.probe), The characteristics of the circuit (.op), simplifying our circuit with different methods such as Thevenin (.tf) and so on… -These functions make the circuit analysis much easier rather than doing all the math work the traditional way.
Conclusions on the last simulations:
-We observe that the circuit realized was a low pass filter. It lets the low frequencies pass as they are and cuts off the high frequencies. -The cutoff frequency was 3.7kHz, so any frequency below it would be preserved and passed, but any frequency above it would be deleted.