Powerful Simulation
Analyse and optimise critical circuits and components using native analog, mixed-signal, and analysis engines.
Cadence OrCAD PSpice
Advanced Analog and Mixed-Signal Simulation with OrCAD PSpice
Analyse, optimise, and validate electronic circuits before layout and fabrication with powerful PSpice simulation, advanced analysis, and waveform investigation tools.
- Analog and mixed-signal simulation
- Advanced analysis and optimisation
- Integrated with OrCAD Capture and Allegro
OrCAD PSpice combines industry-leading native analog, mixed-signal, and analysis engines to help engineering teams simulate, analyse, and optimise critical circuits and components. From simple prototypes to complex systems, PSpice enables designers to identify issues early, improve performance, and reduce costly design iterations.
Key capabilities
Everything you need to trust your circuit before you build it
Circuit Optimisation
Maximise performance, yield, and reliability with temperature and stress analysis, worst-case analysis, Monte Carlo analysis, and performance optimisation.
Advanced Waveform Analysis
Inspect and post-process simulation results with powerful waveform viewing, analysis, and expression support—without needing to rerun simulations.
Enhanced Simulation Capabilities
Go beyond standard circuit simulation with event-driven simulation, checkpoint restart, advanced convergence, and curve-fitting capabilities.
Extensive Model Support
Get to simulation faster with more than 33,000 simulation-ready analog and mixed-signal devices, mathematical functions, and behavioural models.
Open Architecture
Tailor and extend the PSpice environment with custom features, solutions, and design flows.
PSpice editions
Choose the Right PSpice Configuration
| Capability | PSpice AD Basic | PSpice Designer | PSpice Designer PlusMost complete |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simulation capacity | 250 nodes, 250 devices, 1M transient points, 10K AC/DC sweep | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Analog devices | All except BSIM 3.3, BSIM4, magnetic core, IGBT, transmission lines, DMI | All | All |
| Analogue behavioural modelling | ✓ | ✓ | |
| All digital devices | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Bias point, DC sweep, AC sweep & transient analysis with temperature | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bias-point voltages, currents & power display in schematic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Modelling application in Capture | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Parametric sweep | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Monte Carlo and worst-case analysis | ✓ | ||
| Checkpoint restart | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Auto convergence, advanced convergence & speed mode | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Interactive waveform viewer and analyser | ✓ | ✓ | |
| FFT waveform analysis | ✓ | ✓ | |
| FRA and core-loss tools | ✓ | ||
| Performance analysis | ✓ | ||
| Model Editor, Stimulus Editor & Magnetic Parts Editor | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Smoke stress analysis | ✓ | ||
| Optimiser, sensitivity & Monte Carlo advanced analysis | ✓ | ||
| Parametric Plotter | ✓ | ||
| PSpice–MATLAB interface for co-simulation, visualisation & functions | ✓ |
Automotive electronics
Meet Rigorous Automotive Requirements
Modern vehicles rely on increasingly complex electronic systems, from safety and convenience features to ADAS, infotainment, power distribution, and drive-by-wire technologies. PSpice helps automotive engineering teams verify functionality, reliability, and yield before committing to hardware.
Connectivity issues
Address wiring and connectivity challenges associated with drive-by-wire systems.
Power distribution and hybrid drives
Simulate high-power-density power electronics and hybrid-drive architectures.
Systems modelling
Model automotive embedded systems at functional, hardware-architecture, and software-requirement levels.
Mixed-signal simulation
Verify sensor, control-loop, and mixed-signal behaviour across increasingly complex vehicle systems.
Virtual prototyping
Validate hardware and software integration earlier to accelerate time to market.
Early software validation
Reduce the cost of hardware builds and help avoid field failures and recalls.
Power electronics
Power Electronics Simulation and Analysis
PSpice provides mixed-signal simulation and system-level analysis for power-electronics applications, from electric vehicles and data centres to renewables, wearables, and the power grid. Its strength in power-supply simulation, combined with integration into OrCAD Capture and Allegro, helps teams analyse and refine designs before layout and fabrication.
High power
Characterise high-voltage and high-power semiconductor behaviour, including IGBT modules.
Multi-rate simulation
Manage designs requiring thousands of input-signal cycles to achieve synchronisation.
Magnetic components
Model nonlinear magnetics and other specialised magnetic-component requirements.
Low-power design
Test performance limits in low-power and battery-powered applications.
Power dissipation and thermal design
Evaluate power dissipation and thermal considerations early in the design process.
Unified design environment
Use simulation results to inform PCB layout, improve reliability, and optimise cost and size.
IoT and connected devices
Simulation for IoT and Connected Products
IoT products combine sensors, actuators, wireless connectivity, embedded processing, and power-management circuitry. PSpice helps teams address power consumption, mixed-signal integration, model availability, form-factor constraints, and system-level verification.
Power
Minimise power consumption for devices that must operate for days, weeks, months, or years.
Mixed-signal challenges
Simulate analogue, digital, RF-wireless, sensor, and microcontroller interactions.
Form-factor limitations
Support compact wearables and ultra-low-power designs.
Model availability
Use models across circuit-level, behavioural, C/C++, and SystemC abstraction levels.
Integration
Connect system-level and IC-level design workflows.
Go to market
Improve reliability, reduce cost, increase productivity, and optimise designs using advanced analysis.
Co-simulation
PSpice and MATLAB Integration
Export PSpice simulation results to MATLAB for advanced plotting, custom waveform processing, and deeper analysis. With the Simulink-PSpice Interface (SLPS), engineers can co-simulate electrical circuit models with system-level models to validate complete designs earlier.
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Simulate in PSpice
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Export results to MATLAB
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Co-simulate with Simulink using SLPS
Validate system and circuit behaviour together before building physical hardware.
Analog Design and Simulation Using OrCAD Capture and PSpice
Newnes · 2nd Ed.
Recommended book
Analog Design and Simulation Using OrCAD Capture and PSpice
- Author
- Dennis Fitzpatrick
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Imprint
- Newnes
- eBook ISBN
- 9780081025062
- Paperback ISBN
- 9780081025055
- Published
- 29 November 2017
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