Welcome to the OrCAD PSpice AD Basic Training course for Release 17.4-2019

To complete the course, you will need:

a machine running Windows 10, 64-bit edition

a licensed installation of Cadence SPB / OrCAD 17.4-2019 running the latest hotfix

a license for OrCAD PCB Designer Standard or OrCAD PCB Designer Professional is required to enable the PSpice AD Basic functionality

The PSpice AD Basic functionality: has a limit of 250 circuit nodes; AC and DC Sweeps are limited to 10,000 data points; and Transient Analysis is limited to 1,000,000 data points.

Download the OrCAD Capture training files from here and extract the files from the archive to a local directory, using C:\OrCAD_Training is recommended since this location will match the course instructions.

The hands on sections of the training material assume a “default” environment, if this machine used for the training has any user configuration of the Cadence SPB / OrCAD 17.4-2019 environment, save this before starting any of the hands-on sessions as follows:

Start OrCAD Capture and view the session log to see the location of the “live” Capture.ini file, this will be “something like”:

C:\SPB_Data\cdssetup\OrCAD_Capture\17.4.0\Capture.ini

The section before the “cdssetup” is the “Home” location, C:\SPB_Data in this case – but this may be a location in the “Users” folder – make a note of the “Home” location and close Capture.

Then start Windows Explorer and navigate to the “Home” location, rename the “cdssetup” folder to “cdssetup-live”. Capture will build a new “cdssetup” folder when it starts again.

If you need to interrupt the course and restore the previous settings, rename the “cdssetup” folder to “cdssetup-training” and rename the “cdssetup-live” folder back to “cdssetup”, to continue with the course settings again, rename the “cdssetup” folder to “cdssetup-live” and rename the “cdssetup-training” folder to “cdssetup”.

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