EE 233 home	EE 233 Winter 2001 Circuit Theory
	SPICE information SPICE is a computer-aided analysis program for circuit simulation. Appendix F of the textbook by Dorf / Svoboda is an introductory guide to SPICE, suitable for EE 233. The specific version of SPICE used in the course is PSpice, whose Student Version is freely available from Cadence / Orcad (see below). The use of PSpice (Student Version) will be taught in the quiz sections. Since there are many versions of SPICE, our department supports only the PSpice Student Version and the TAs will answer only questions for this supported version. Full user's manuals (very large pdf files) are available at this Orcad web site: http://www.orcad.com/technical/library/analog/analog.asp. You might want to read the electronic files instead of printing since these manuals are very long (hundreds of pages). A User's Guide from the above web site is posted here. Again, use it electronically to look up what you want to do (e.g. look up the section on "Setting Initial States" to see how to specify initial conditions in simulation). Do not print since the file is very large. For specific hints with regard to homework problems, see the homework web page. All PCs in the department computer labs already have PSpice set up for students' use. If you want to run PSpice at home on your own PC, you can download the Student Version from the Orcad web site. To download PSPICE Student Version for PC / Windows, follow these steps: Go to EE home page. Click on Computing in the left panel. Scroll down to the Sofware section and click on "Software available on the PC Lab computers." Scroll down to the EE Applications section and click on "PSpice 9.1 Orcad web page." Under the tab "Products", click on "PSpice." On the left panel, under "Downloads," click on "PSpice 9.1 Student Version." Follow the download and set-up instructions after downloading.
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